The National Endowment for the Arts

Mercy Center provides hope, assistance, and healing to the community through education, emergency, and family services.

Stowe Story Labs is a nonprofit organization that connects screenwriters, filmmakers, and creative producers globally with experienced industry professionals. It aims to help develop their skills, projects, and a network of like-minded artists within a collaborative community.

Music to Life is dedicated to supporting musical visionaries—artists who passionately engage with pressing global issues. These artists use their talents to advocate for civil and human rights, address climate change, combat poverty, and promote health initiatives. By harnessing the power of music, they inspire positive change and encourage communities to come together for a better future.

The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.

Connect Detroit is a non-profit organization that facilitates funds for collaborative community solutions to solve community problems.

Writers' League of Texas is an organization that provides information, support, and sharing among writers.

EngAGE is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting healthy aging through a comprehensive approach that emphasizes the well-being of seniors and families. It offers a range of programs, including arts, wellness, lifelong learning, and community building, specifically designed for residents of affordable senior and multi-generational apartment communities. Operating in California, Oregon, and Minnesota, EngAGE focuses on fostering intergenerational connections and enhancing the quality of life for thousands of individuals by creating engaging and supportive environments. Through its initiatives, EngAGE seeks to empower seniors and enrich their lives, encouraging active participation in their communities.

Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center is a nonprofit organization that offers art classes and stages world-class art exhibitions to create vibrant arts and cultural experiences for people of all ages.

AS220 is a community art center that offers a forum for residential art galleries, work studios, education and performance spaces.

Rhode Island State Council on the Arts supports the work of individual artists through its fellowship program.

Community MusicWorks (CMW) is a nationally recognized community-based organization that employs music education and performance to foster long-lasting and meaningful relationships between children, families, and professional musicians in Providence, RI's urban neighborhoods.

St. Johns Cultural Council is a non profit organization focused on cultural organizations through grants, and development programs.

What Cheer Writers Club supports Rhode Island's creators of the written, spoken, and illustrated word through community events, free and low-cost business services, and coworking space.

FirstWorks is a non-profit organization established in Providence, Rhode Island, whose mission is to strengthen the community's cultural, educational, and economic vitality by engaging diverse audiences in world-class performing arts and education programmes.

LPAC is an non-profit organization that provides the greater Laramie community with a structure and inclusive processes to create successful public art projects that reflect the community’s identities and values and contribute to community vitality.

Artown is a Northern Nevada non-profit arts organization and producer of the nationally acclaimed, month-long multidisciplinary festival.

Culture Works is the funding, advocacy, and service organization that passionately inspires, supports, and sustains arts and culture.

Students Motivated by the Arts is a nonprofit art school downtown.

Engine is an arts-driven nonprofit organization based in Biddeford, founded in 2010 with a mission to foster community-based arts programming. It aims to enhance cultural, social, and economic revitalization through artistic expression and creative vibrancy. Engine actively designs and promotes various arts initiatives, including exhibitions and events that engage the community. Notable projects include the Time biennial, featuring artist Amy Stacey Curtis, and the monthly Biddeford ArtWalk, which encourage local participation and connection. By supporting the creative industry and advocating for socially responsible practices, Engine contributes to the cultural vitality of the region.

Cultural Resources, Inc., helps communities and groups identify, celebrate, and preserve the cultural traditions that make them unique. In intensive, community-based workshops centered on principles of discovery research , they help people assess and explore the full range of traditional arts practiced in their communities.

Their mission is to support the creative economy through the arts by providing essential resources, by fostering partnerships, and by promoting Portland's artistic talents and cultural assets. As the official nonprofit arts agency, They support economic development efforts by strengthening and stimulating their workforce, creative industries, and enterprises.

Maine Arts Commission provides educational and cultural services. They also provide arts education, traditional and folk arts, and public art programs. They offer apprenticeship program opportunities for experienced traditional artists.

Founded in 2005, and recognized as one of the top documentary film festivals in the world, the Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) brings the finest non-fiction cinema and immersive media to the rugged coast of Maine.

They are a non-profit performing arts organization in Maine connecting artists and audiences through diverse arts experiences. Be thoroughly entertained by live shows spanning the traditional to the contemporary, the popular to the unexpected. Learn from and be inspired by artists who openly share with us their passion and craft.

Art At Work/Terra Moto Inc. mission is to create large and small-scale multidisciplinary arts projects that seek to measurably increase communities’ resilience, economic vibrancy and civic engagement. Committed to reflecting humanity’s wisdom and struggles with projects of high artistic quality, Terra Moto’s work includes visual, musical and literary arts, performance, civic dialogues, residencies, workshops and gatherings. Through these endeavors, Terra Moto seeks to engage creativity’s imaginative intelligence in addressing the challenges of contemporary society with a primary focus on care of the environment.