Search Nonprofits

Cultivating community and celebrating Appalachian heritage in a peaceful mountain setting.

For the past 50 years, the Shakespeare Club has become particularly well-known for its Broadway musicals staged annually to benefit various worthy charities in our community. In recent years, these have become semi-professional productions involving an entire year of planning and preparation. Under professional direction and choreography and with professional sets and orchestra, club members, husbands, and friends volunteer thousands of rehearsal, production, and promotion hours to bring the show to the public. Proceeds from these productions have been donated to various charities: The Association of Retarded Citizens, Wellness Community, Villa Esperanza, the Pasadena Ronald McDonald House, and Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Currently, our proceeds go to fund college scholarships for outstanding high school graduates in Pasadena high schools.

The Carbondale Clay Center exists to promote excellence in the ceramic arts and to build community through clay related activities. Our mission is to serve the community by offering diverse, high quality ceramic arts educational programs and providing support for ceramic artists through teaching, exhibiting, and educational opportunities.

We support artists in regions of conflict or isolation by offering performances, education, scholarships, donations of musical instruments and art supplies, mentorship and sanctuary so that they may inspire others to create and find comfort in beauty.

The Beach Cities Symphony Association believes that music enriches individuals, whether performer or member of the audience, and the community at large. We promote the musical arts by volunteering our time and talents for the enjoyment and enhancement of both performers and audience. The association fulfills this mission by presenting four free concerts per year. The orchestra plays classical pieces ranging from the early to the contemporary, including works by local composers. Prize-winning young soloists are given an opportunity to perform with the orchestra. Most performers and soloists are members of the local community. Concerts are held in the community college. Our goals are not only to entertain, but also to inform and educate the audience by means of newsletters, concert programs, and pre-concert lectures. We shall maintain our presence by continuing to solicit voluntary contributions from members, local businesses, foundations and other sources.

ChannelAire Chrous encourages women to pursue musical excellence through education and performance (competition).

Walnut Grove Cultural Center offers a variety of intellectual and cultural programs that help women strengthen their character, friendships and work and to equip them to be a positive influence wherever they find themselves.

Arts Center East’s mission is to enrich lives and enhance economic development by bringing the arts to the diverse community East of the River through education, events, exhibits and performances.

Bedford TV (formerly known as BCAT) is a membership based, non-profit community access television station serving the town of Bedford. Our studio is centrally located at Old Town Hall on South Road. The Bedford TV mission is to make media available, reflective and responsive to the needs of our community.

Arts For Life is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting people facing serious illnesses and disabilities. By providing educational art programs, we enrich patients’ lives, nurture their minds and spirits, and encourage positive healthcare experiences for children and their families.

Slow Burn Theatre is committed to providing the South Florida region with provocative intelligent works of musical theatre, but we need your help to do it. Your donations secure performance rights, buy props, help pay for our performance and rehearsal spaces, and everything between.

The Southern Oregon Film Society celebrates the diversity of human experience through the art of independent film - enriching, educating and inspiring audiences of all ages.Located in rural S. Oregon, the society's signature Ashland Independent Film Festival a 5-day spring festival of 100+ films (shorts, features, animations) & live art & music events gives audiences access to diverse under represented voices amplified by independent film. The organization holds a smaller program of international films annually in October, manages school programs, and hosts film and media events, lectures & classes year round in its Main Street Film Center. Regularly named as one of the best film festivals of its kinds (Movie Maker, Smithsonian magazines), AIFF started online film streaming in 2020.