First launched by Individuals for the Arts greater than 30 years in the past as Nationwide Arts Week in honor of the Nationwide Endowment for the Arts, Nationwide Arts and Humanities Month was re-established in 1993 as a month-long celebration in October with the next 4 objectives:
- To create a nationwide, state and native concentrate on the humanities and humanities by means of the media,
- To encourage the participation of people, in addition to arts, humanities and different organizations nationwide,
- To supply a possibility for federal, state and native enterprise, authorities and civic leaders to declare their help for the humanities and humanities,
- To ascertain a extremely seen automobile for elevating public consciousness in regards to the arts and humanities.
In recognition of Nationwide Arts & Humanities Month, America’s Charities is celebrating the next brokers of change who we’re proud to name our members. These nonprofits’ packages encourage, educate, entertain, and enlighten youth, veterans, and people of all ages in native communities all through the nation.
One of the crucial cost-efficient methods you may help these nonprofits is to donate to them by way of payroll deduction by means of your employer’s office giving program (Don’t have a program? Click on right here to have your employer contact our workforce.) Click on on every charity’s identify beneath to study extra about their work, and to make a donation now!
Duke Ellington College of the Arts
Based in 1974 in Washington, D.C., the Duke Ellington College of the Arts’ mission is to nurture and encourage ardour for arts and studying in gifted college students who won’t in any other case have a possibility to develop their creative expertise. They be sure that college students are ready for post-secondary training and/or careers within the arts by providing an intensive arts-based program. They put together college students to turn out to be productive residents in our international society by means of a powerful concentrate on lecturers and neighborhood service. Be taught extra.
Below the management of Creative Director Eric Schaeffer and Managing Director Maggie Boland, Signature produces modern musicals and performs, reinvents traditional musicals, develops new work and supplies significant training and outreach packages for the neighborhood. The Theatre is the premiere venue for musical theater within the Washington area and is understood for producing large-scale musicals in its intimate areas and for its premieres of recent work, particularly new musicals. Be taught extra.
WETA (Larger Washington Academic Telecommunications Affiliation)
WETA Tv/Classical WETA FM public broadcasting serves Larger Washington. Productions embody PBS NewsHour, Washington Week and documentaries by Ken Burns and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. WETA’s mission is to provide and distribute content material of mental integrity and cultural benefit utilizing a broad vary of media to succeed in audiences each in our neighborhood and nationwide. WETA leverages its collective sources to increase our influence. WETA shall be true to its values; and respects range of views, tradition, and heritage. Be taught extra.
