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The title of each nonprofit links to its Donation Page when possible. The website at the end of the description links to the nonprofit’s Home Page.
Partner Organizations
Arthouse at the Jones Center
The mission of Arthouse is to promote the growth and appreciation of contemporary art and artists in Texas. Through its exhibitions and programs in Austin and statewide, Arthouse helps nurture artists' careers and deepen public understanding of contemporary art. www.arthousetexas.org
Austin Classical Guitar Society
The Austin Classical Guitar Society strives to be a leading promoter of classical guitar in the United States. With excellence and variety in concert and educational programming, ACGS seeks to serve all segments of the Austin-area population. Research and innovation make ACGS a dynamic yet practical model for organizations nationwide. www.austinclassicalguitar.org
Austin Center for Photography is a new, up and coming arts organization for Austin dedicated to still photography, both traditional and digital. Initially organized in early 2008, ACP is still very much in its infancy but we have big plans for our own space complete with galleries, meeting rooms, digital workstations, a darkroom, and a library. In the meantime, we will be sponsoring various events, bringing some of the biggest names in photography to town to lecture and show their work, and are working to become the focal point of all things photographic for Austin and central Texas. http://www.visitacp.org/.
Austin Museum of ArtThe Austin Museum of Art is dedicated to developing and educating a broad audience for the visual arts in Austin, focusing primarily on 20th-century and contemporary art. We present and originate a broad range of exhibitions. Our interpretative programming creates connections between the visual arts, other art forms, and our lives. www.amoa.org
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Our mission is to nourish the mind and spirit and enhance the quality of life for area residents through presentation of the widest selection of the finest quality theatre and performing arts productions possible. We strive to promote artistic expression and appreciation among all segments of the Central Texas community. www.austintheatre.org.
Ballet Austin
Ballet Austin boasts a rich history spanning five decades, acclaimed productions, and one of the nation's largest classical ballet academies. As choreographed by artistic director Stephen Mills from the new Butler Dance Education Center and Community School in downtown Austin, Ballet Austin actively engages the community, dancers, and audiences alike. www.balletaustin.org
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The Cipher-Austin's Hip Hop Project
Our mission is to ensure that Austin youth have a safe, supportive, dynamic and challenging community in which to discover their powerful voices - through written, spoken word and hip hop - to express their views, strengthen self esteem, and engage them in opportunities that allow them to address the issues that affect them.www.thecipheratx.org
City of Austin Cultural Arts DivisionThe City of Austin Cultural Arts Division works to nurture, preserve and promote Austin’s arts and creative industries in order to strengthen and sustain Austin’s dynamic cultural vitality. We serve to encourage, develop and facilitate an enriched environment of artistic, creative, cultural activity in the City of Austin and its Extra Territorial Jurisdiction. www.cityofaustin.org/redevelopment/cad.htm
Forklift Danceworks
Forklift Danceworks produces dances with all kinds of people. Past performances have included firefighters, Venetian gondoliers, people who are visually impaired, and Elvis Impersonators. Forklift values creativity, diversity, and connection, and the dances we produce serve to demonstrate our core belief that all people are inherently creative. www.forkliftdanceworks.org
Health Alliance for Austin Musicians
The Health Alliance for Austin Musicians (HAAM) provides access to affordable healthcare to Austin's low-income, uninsured working musicians. Services include: primary medical care through Seton Family of Hospitals, basic dental care through St. David's Community Health Foundation Leadership and mental health counseling and addiction recovery services through the SIMS Foundation. www.myhaam.org
Heritage Society of Austin
The Heritage Society of Austin's mission is to promote the recognition and experience of Austin's diverse cultural heritage through the preservation of historic treasures and places. www.heritagesocietyaustin.org
Long Center for the Performing Arts
Our mission is to provide the citizens of Central Texas a world-class venue that enhances the appreciation, enjoyment, and reputations of the region's premier and diverse performing arts organizations and artists; to become a cultural, corporate, and educational resource and destination, enabling the performing arts and artists to thrive in our community. www.thelongcenter.org
Tapestry Dance Company
Tapestry Dance Company's mission is to "share the power of dance through education and performance." Services and programs include a mainstage performance season, outreach programs through AISD and local service organizations as well as a 12,500 sf facility in South Austin housing a multi-form dance academy for adults and children. www.tapestry.org
Zachary Scott Theatre Center
ZACH aims to create a unique theatre experience that ignites the imagination, lifts the spirit, and creates meaningful dialogue that engages our community. ZACH's season of professional theatre productions celebrates diversity and offers a wide array of cross-cultural educational and participatory activities including professional theatre classes and interactive plays for children.www.zachscott.com
Registered Organizations
allgo
allgo works towards its vision through cultural arts, health, and advocacy programming by supporting artists and artistic expression within our diverse communities; promoting health within a wellness model; mobilizing and building coalitions among groups marginalized by race/ethnicity, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation/sexual identity to enact change. www.allgo.org
American Repertory Ensemble
ARE’s mission is to celebrate Dance, Music, and Life through innovative performance. We make classical arts accessible by offering affordable tickets, performing a diverse repertoire, and providing opportunities to experience the creative process and engage with extraordinary artists. www.americanrepensemble.org
Anthropos Arts brings top professional musicians from diverse genres into low-income, Title I middle and high schools to offer free workshops, individualized lessons, concerts, and master classes. Students taking Anthropos music lessons perform publicly in Austin’s top venues, showcasing their new skills alongside their musician-mentors. http://anthroposarts.wordpress.com/Art Alliance Austin
Art Alliance Austin is a catalyst for art. We exist to enrich and endow Central Texas’ cultural landscape as well as to promote the participation in visual art through the production of our suite of annual events – which culminate in Art Week Austin. www.artallianceaustin.org
Austin Cabaret Theatre
Austin Cabaret Theatre is the only professionally producing year-round cabaret in Austin. We are also the only year-round dinner cabaret showroom in the state of Texas! Austin Cabaret Theatre strives to present professional cabaret artists and educational outreach opportunities in an intimate setting, now at our new home, The Long Center for the Performing Arts. www.austincabaret.org
Austin Chamber Music Center
The Austin Chamber Music Center is dedicated to serving Central Texas by expanding knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of chamber music through the highest quality performance and instruction. austinchambermusic.org
Austin Circle of Theaters (ACoT)
We are a performing arts service organization working to build greater public awareness, participation and support for Austin's performing arts. We provide marketing, ticketing, audience development; technical assistance; fiscal sponsorship; access to affordable insurance; information and referral services — and advocacy for over 130 arts organizations and 400 artists. www.acotonline.org
Austin Film Society
The Austin Film Society promotes the appreciation of film and supports creative filmmaking through screenings, giving grants and providing access and education about film to youth and the public. Through Austin Studios, opened in 2000 in partnership with the City of Austin, AFS helps attract film development and production to Austin and Texas. http://austinfilm.org
Austin Girl's Choir
Austin Girls' Choir is a performing choir renowned throughout the US and Europe for its high standards and level of excellence. AGC serves girls age 8-18 from the Greater Austin area, helping them develop self-discipline, confidence, leadership and teamwork skills as they both enrich and internationally represent their city. www.austin.girlschoir.com
Austin Green Art
Austin Green Art envisions, inspires and manifests the Sustainability Revolution. We believe environmental destruction is driven by cultural programming. AGA provides hands on engagement with collaborative design involving ALL members of the community engaging the complex issues of our times. http://www.austingreenart.org
Austin History Center Association
The mission of the Austin History Center Association is to support the Austin History Center, the local history archives of the Austin Public Library and its work to collect, preserve, and make available to the public materials documenting the history of Austin and Travis County. www.ahca.net
Austin Jazz Workshop
The Austin Jazz Workshop's mission is to perform for and mentor students in central Texas public schools in order to encourage their participation in band, orchestra, and choir programs, and to enhance quality of life through live performances employing area musicians and collaborations with nonprofit organizations in central Texas. www.austinjazzworkshop.com
Austin Lyric Opera
Provides operatic performances and educational experiences at the highest level of expression which enrich the quality of life for the Central Texas community. www.austinlyricopera.org
Austin Music Foundation
Austin Music Foundation fuels Austin's creative economy by empowering musicians through innovative career-development and music-business education programs. AMF provides programs to help local artists navigate opportunities in the music industry and services to unite the local music community. www.austinmusicfoundation.org
Austin Pops
Austin Pops brings stellar central Texas musicians to the stage for live performances featuring local singers, songwriters, composers and young artists. Our mission is to further the understanding of traditional orchestral instruments through performances, recordings and other media presentations of popular music and through educational outreach to the community. www.austinpops.org
Austin Playhouse
Austin Playhouse is dedicated to providing opportunities for Austin artists and audiences to celebrate the human experience. Austin Playhouse will nourish your mind, delight your spirit, and enrich your life through professional productions of classic, contemporary and musical plays. www.austinplayhouse.com
The Austin Project / Experiments in Jazz Aesthetics (TAPEJA) (website under construction)
Nationally acclaimed artists facilitate creative writing workshops for women from Austin and UT, primarily women of color, where jazz-inspired methodologies guide women to make substantial life changes. By sharing their newly found, authentic voices in public performances and community forums, TAPEJA participants offer a model of freedom and social change. For more information, please call 512-471-4320.
Austin Shakespeare
The Austin Shakespeare Festival presents professional theatre of the highest quality with an emphasis on the plays of William Shakespeare, bringing to the public performances and eduation programs to youth that are fresh, bold, imaginative, thought-provoking, and eminently accessible, connecting the truths of the past with the challenges and possibilities of today. www.austinshakespeare.org
ASPAA exists to find and supply financial and administrative assistance and educational support for music-based performing arts groups in and around Austin, TX. ASPAA Currently supports Espada Indoor Percussion, ATX Winterguards, and Sixth Street Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps. We sponsor the annual Texas Drum Corps Preview. http://www.austinstars.org/Austin Summer Musical for Children
To provide live musical theatre for children 3-10 and their families regardless of their ability to pay. www.summermusical.com
Austin Symphony Orchestra Society, Inc.
The mission of the Austin Symphony Orchestra Society, Inc. is to enhance the cultural quality of life for the adults and young people of Austin and Central Texas by providing excellence in music performance and educational programming. www.austinsymphony.org
Badgerdog Literary Publishing
Badgerdog was created to publish and to teach. Accordingly, our mission is two-fold: to publish work that furthers our cultures' collective vision and to equip at-risk children with the language skills necessary to create literary art from their joy and their jeopardy. www.badgerdog.org
Big Medium's message is to be a catalyst for the promotion of the visual arts and artists. We are dedicated to providing opportunities for a diverse and growing viewership to engage with and experience the visual arts in Austin. Through our commitment to support the visual arts, Big Medium works to encourage dialogue between artists and the community. This is reflected in our efforts to curate challenging exhibitions of local, national, and international contemporary artists in our gallery; to provide space for artists to plan, create and realize their work; and to organize events that bring Texas artists and the community together. Big Medium, a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization, make this happen in primarily four ways: Big Medium Gallery, Big Medium Studios, the East Austin Studio Tour and The Texas Biennial. www.bigmedium.org
channelAustin
channelAustin promotes the creative power and First Amendment right to free speech for the Austin community who wish to access digital media. Freedom of expression should be available to the community regardless of disability or ability, on a fair and equitable basis that is non-discriminatory, non-commercial, non-exclusive, and content neutral. www.channelaustin.org
Chorus Austin
Chorus Austin is the nonprofit umbrella organization that manages the business functions and artistic productions of the Chorus Austin Consort, Austin Vocal Arts Ensemble, and the award-winning Austin Civic Chorus. We offer 6 different concert programs each season for our patrons to enjoy, and a variety of volunteer and outreach opportunities as well. www.chorusaustin.org
CHULA - CHULA works to ensure that the arts and public ourdoor spaces play a valued role in the educational, economic and cultural well being of Cherrywood Neighborhood in Austin, Texas and adjacent East Austin Neighborhoods. We are proud founders and sponsors of the well-acclaimed Cherrywood Art Fair (now in its ninth year) and Big Artist, Little Artist, a program that pairs Austin artists with underpriviliged future artists for mentoring and teaching. http://www.chulaleague.org/
Conspirare, Inc.
Conspirare, inspired by the belief in music’s power to change people’s lives, seeks to draw all persons into the embrace of the musical arts by producing world-class choral/choral-orchestral performances, by exploring avenues of music innovation and education, and by engaging new and diverse audiences in extraordinary musical and educational experiences. www.conspirare.org
Dance Umbrella
We promote and encourage the knowledge, appreciation, practice and performance of dance. With the goal of expanding audiences and support for contemporary dance, DU brings the power, culture and history of dance into the entire community and implements programs that cultivate meaningful exchanges between artists and the public. www.danceumbrella.com
DiverseArts Culture Works
DiverseArts presents high-quality multidisciplinary, multicultural arts programs in Austin. We operate a visual arts gallery and performance venue; present spoken word, jazz and blues performances, and produce culture-based community festivals. Current work focuses on the African American Cultural Heritage District and preserving the cultural heritage of the East End Community. www.diversearts.org
Femme Film Texas, a project of Moving Image Arts & Education
Femme Film Texas teaches filmmaking and digital technology to young women and girls, with an emphasis on reaching underserved populations. During in-school programs and summer camps, girls create and exhibit original video projects. www.femmefilmtexas.org
Fusebox Festival
The Fusebox Festival presents contemporary art and performance that spans form and geography. The festival acts as a catalyst for new ideas, new artistic models, new languages and approaches to help us better fully engage with the issues and questions that define and inspire us as artists and audiences. fuseboxfestival.org
German-Texan Heritage Society
GTHS promotes awareness and preservation of the German cultural heritage of Texas through German language classes, speakers, genealogical seminars, a research library and tours of the historic German Free School. We host four annual cultural events; publish books on German-Texan history and genealogy, a quarterly Journal and a bi-monthly newsletter. www.germantexans.org
Hill Country Hill Tribers
Hill Country Hill Tribers provides marketable skills to artisans in Austin's refugee population. By weaving and sewing in their homes, refugee women are able to contribute to their families’ financial stability while caring for their children. HCHT also offers English language skills and basic educational opportunities to the artisans.
www.hilltribers.org
Imagine Art
Our mission is to transform the lives of disabled artists. Our God-glorified strategy is to set the artist F.R.E.E. We do this by FINDING artists that are willing to engage in community; RESTORING artists to abundant life; EQUIPPING artists with training and resources; and ESTABLISHING artists as contributing members in the Arts. www.imagineart.net
KLRU-TV Austin PBS
KLRU-TV Austin PBS has a mission to present quality multimedia content that engages people in the thoughtful exchange of ideas, the expression of the arts, and lifelong learning opportunities resulting in a more vibrant community and a higher quality of life. www.klru.org
KOOP Radio
KOOP is community radio, giving voice to the underserved in Austin, Texas with unique programming from volunteers. Most of our funding comes from our listeners. www.koop.org
Latinitas Unidas Por El Arte (LUPE Arte)
LUPE Arte promotes the literacy and media awareness of youth through arts and culturally relevant arts education. LUPE Arte administers three programs: Niños y Arte (Children and Art), Mujuers y Arte (Women and Art) and LUPE Arte Multi Media Group, a film, theater and television production company. www.lupearte.org
Leadership Enrichment Arts Program (LEAP)
LEAP inspired under served youth in Austin and surrounding areas through experience with the Arts boosting self-esteem and community involvement while creating successful leaders. We host vists to arts venues and performances and host a week long residency program at UT/Austin each summer to give local kids a"A Taste of College".
www.leapaustin.org
Mexic-Arte Museum
Mexic-Arte Museum’s mission is dedicated to cultural enrichment and education through the presentation and promotion of traditional contemporary Mexican, Latino and Latin American art and culture. Our vision is to educate the people of Texas about the importance of Mexican and Mexican American art and culture that enhances the collective pride of the entire community. www.mexic-artemuseum.org
The Mobile Film School
The Mobile Film School is committed to bringing media arts education to underserved communities; create long-term mentoring relationships, pairing students with seasoned industry professionals and educators; and cultivating a unique appreciation of local history and culture using storytelling in film. www.mobilefilmschool.org
MUSIC FOR THE CITY
MUSIC FOR THE CITY exists to encourage and enable Austin’s artists to give back to the community by partnering with charitable organizations serving our city. We do this by producing benefit albums and concerts that directly benefit charitable organizations serving our city. www.musicforthecity.org
Neill-Cochran House Museum
The Neill-Cochran House Museum, considered one of Austin's three most important historic residences, promotes education and architectural preservation through public programming, events, museum days, the Fourth-Grade Curriculum Unit for Austin ISD students and adaptive programs for home-schoolers and scouts. www.neill-cochranmuseum.org
One World Theater
To bring diverse cultural performances into the Austin schools and to provide a forum for world-class performers and local professionals to share their artistry and to build community by embracing diversity of art forms, traditions and cultures from around the world. www.oneworldnonprofit.org
Paper Chairs creates sensorially dynamic theatre combining fractured subjectivity, music, unconventional audience situation, surrealism, labor-intensive mechanics, and heightened movement vocabulary. We favor tour-de-force fusions of various performance styles, music genres and historical periods to excite modern sensibilities and educate by irreverently suggesting past and present cultural connections. The work is outrageous, well-researched, and a little bit dangerous. www.paperchairs.com
Penfold Theatre Company is dedicated to opening and operating a live, professional theatre in north Austin metro. Our mission is to empower artists to create work of the highest caliber and to engage diverse audiences through stories that inspire and impact our community. www.penfoldtheatre.org
ProArts CollectiveProArts in an incubator of artistic expression representing the African Diaspora and is dedicated to the production of transformational and accessible works for the enrichment of the community. www.proartsaustin.orgReel Women
To provide information, education, networking activities and opportunities for community service to women (and others!) at all levels of experience in video and film. www.reelwomen.orgRude MechanicalsRude Mechanicals creates and produces brave new works for the stage, characterized by bold physicality, piercing design, intellectual savvy and an irrepressible sense of humor. We manage the Off Center performance venue and the groundbreaking Grrl Action Program, helping teenage girls find voice and vision through the power of performance. www.rudemechs.com Russian Speakers SocietyThe Russian Speakers Society enriches the Austin artscape by presenting programs with artists whose cultural heritage is Russian or Eastern European. The performances span several disciplines, but most have their base in the music and dance of the West flowing from the works of romantic compositions and ballets of the 19th and 20th centuries. http://www.rusaustin.com/Salvage Vanguard TheaterSalvage Vanguard Theater is a nonprofit community center for the arts committed to fostering a dynamic exchange between visionary artists and audiences. To that end, Salvage Vanguard Theater seeks to combine explosive energy with expert technique, creating forms that defy tradition and define a new American aesthetic. www.salvagevanguard.org
Second Youth Family TheatreIt is the mission of Second Youth to produce original and established works for family audiences incorporating drama, comedy, musical theatre, puppetry and dance with the highest artistic quality and cultural diversity. Second Youth is dedicated to building long-term relationships with audiences through exceptional production and education. www.secondyouth.com Star of Texas Fair and RodeoThrough its acclaimed Livestock Show, Fair, and Rodeo, the Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo continues to work towards the advancement of its mission, “Promoting Youth Education - Preserving Western Heritage.” The Star of Texas delivers superior entertainment to the community while boasting an economic impact that exceeds $54 million annually. www.rodeoaustin.com SummerStock AustinWe are an educational theatre program where college and high school students are joined to form a repertory theatre company to gain "real world" experience under the supervision of professional directors and designers. Students do not pay tuition to be part of SSA. Members are chosen solely on their talent, skill and attitude. www.summerstockaustin.org
Swan Songs Swan Songs fulfills musical wishes at the end of life by organizing private concerts for individuals with a terminal illness. By request, a favorite style of music or musician is brought to the home or facility. The concert allows patient and family to come together through the medium of music. http://www.swansongs.org/index.html
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TexARTS Association for Performing & Visual Arts
TexARTS brings top professionals from the region and the nation to educate & perform & create for Austin & Capitol Lake Region students & audiences. www.Tex-ARTS.org
Texas After Violence Project
The Texas After Violence Project seeks to understand the effects of capital punishment and violent crime on individuals and communities in Texas. We conduct oral history interviews and train oral historians, teach in the community about state execution and aim to develop ways to prevent violence and promote social healing in Texas. www.texasafterviolence.org
Texas Early Music Project
Founded in 1987 by Daniel Johnson, the Texas Early Music Project is dedicated to preserving and advancing the art of Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and early Classical music through performance, recordings, and educational outreach. www.early-music.org
Texas Folklife
Texas Folklife celebrates and preserves Texas' unique cultural traditions via performances, exhibits, education programs, community residencies and other projects. Via entertainment and education, we strive to keep these traditions alive for future generations -- and to find that common ground where all of our cultures intersect. www.texasfolklife.org
Texas Music Museum
The Texas Music Museum researches, archives, presents exhibits, educational programs and performances related to the broad range of Texas Music. We serve children, youth and adults through our programs that are all free to the public. www.texasmusicmuseum.org
Theatre Action Project
Theatre Action Project is an interactive, educational theatre company serving the schools and communities of greater Austin. Our mission is to create and promote socially relevant, interactive theatre and educational programming that ignites community dialogue, self-discovery, and social change. www.theatreactionproject.org
Tutto Theatre Company
To create collaborative and multidisciplinary theatrical productions bringing together local artists working in a wide array of disciplines to showcase the fruits of their collaboration. www.tuttotheatre.org
VSA Arts of Texas
VSA arts of Texas works to create a society where people with disabilities learn through, participate in and enjoy the arts. We are dedicated to the mission of promoting the crreative power in people with disabilities by working with all community members to facilitate full access to the cultural and educational arts. www.vsatx.org
Women in Jazz Association, Inc.
Women in Jazz perpetuates vocal traditional jazz through jazz education and concerts. www.womeninjazz.org
Women & Their Work
Known for its pioneering spirit, embrace of artistic innovation, and commitment to Texas audiences and artists, Women & Their Work Art Space is a one of a kind statewide non-profit organization. Women & Their Work Art Space showcases exhibitions of contemporary art throughout the year and presents performances, readings, film screenings and educational outreach programs. www.womenandtheirwork.org
Yellow Tape Construction Co.
Yellow Tape Construction Co. furthers the next generation of great, wholly original, definitively American performance aesthetic. At the intersection of dance, theatre, music and performance art, we are creating a new community of artists and patrons ˜ laying a foundation of strength and support through innovative arts programming and fearless new work. www.yellowtape.org
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