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We forge connections through stirring presentations of chamber music across the Bay Area. Left Coast Chamber Ensemble makes connections between composer and performer, performer and audience, audience and music, and between musics of all eras by staging a spectrum of imaginative programs that enchant and delight the listener, and gives diverse audiences multiple entry points for engaging with the music. Founded in 1992, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble communicates with audiences through inspiring performances of new and old chamber music. By embracing both musics, we enrich the audience’s experience — we reawaken a feeling of immediacy in performances of familiar masterpieces and we reveal the powerful expressive intentions in the music of our time. The ensemble’s twelve musicians, many of whom have played together since the 1980s, perform in different combinations, using strings, winds, guitar and piano to present a wide range of repertoire. The group has commissioned over 55 new works, sponsors an annual composition contest that draws over 150 applicants each year, and carries on a tradition of performing the very best that the composers of today (whether established or emerging) have to offer.

Envision's mission is to transform the lives of students – especially those who will be the first in their family to attend college – by preparing them for success in college, in careers, and in life.

Improving the lives of families through child care services, research and advocacy.

To provide greater Los Angeles with a resident theater company dedicated to providing programming of the highest quality, in order to entertain, inform and educate our multicultural community. To rediscover rarely performed classics, and to foster and develop new works through the collaboration of an artistic ensemble influenced by social relevance, past, present and future. To promote the theater arts by providing opportunities for artists and craftsmen to develop and enrich their skills.

The mission of the Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra (SCVYO) Foundation is to promote the performing arts in the Santa Clarita Valley community, via a youth orchestra. Instructional education is provided to assist young and new musicians with an opportunity to experience personal and professional growth by participating in the orchestra. The Youth Orchestra seeks to attract patrons of orchestral music, who view the orchestra as valued enjoyment. That the SCVYO, in partnership with the College of the Canyons, continues to grow and be viewed as a community asset by meeting the educational and cultural needs of the Santa Clarita Valley, a community of over 175,000 people.

The mission of Theatre Of Hearts is to promote understanding between people through cultural and artistic forums, and to empower local communities through education in the arts.

Founded in 1992, Side Street Projects is an entirely mobile artist-run organization that gives artists of all ages the ability and the means to support their creative endeavors. The artists at Side Street Projects are social entrepreneurs who work with communities to solve real world problems. We share what we have learned to strengthen the field of artists who work with communities, schools, and organizations. Simply put, we teach artists how to roll up their sleeves and do things themselves. Each year we serve 10,000 individual (adult) artists and over 3,000 children.

Our energetic group of ladies enthusiastically supports the objectives and motto of our National Society: the promotion of education, patriotism, and historic preservation within our community of Anthem, in service to God, Home, and Country.

The Aspen Art Museum is a non-collecting institution presenting the newest, most important evolutions in international contemporary art. 

NAI's mission is to inspire leadership and excellence to advance heritage interpretation as a profession.

The purpose of the Education Foundation of Eagle County is to support the creation and delivery of an excellent learning experience for students within the Eagle County public school system. The Education Foundation of Eagle County provides funding for tools, technology and staff within Eagle County Schools through public grants and private donations. EFEC works to provide sustainable funding sources through local and statewide legislative advocacy on K-12 education funding policy and mobilizes community engagement by recognizing excellence in teaching. The Public Education Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization established in 2001, now the Education Foundation of Eagle County (EFEC), has worked in partnership with Eagle County Schools to fund strategic initiatives and programs for quality education in Eagle County.

The Forney Museum of Transportation, founded in 1955, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which exists to collect, preserve, and exhibit items of artistic, historical and technological interest relating to transportation for the purposes of education and personal enrichment.