FUTURE IMAGEMAKERSGirls Write Now NYC based program. Writer mentors with girls, college essay writing workshops, and more.
Girls Inc. – global
viBe Theater Experience (viBe) is a non-profit performing arts/ education organization that empowers teenage girls through the creation and production of original performances. more
Read an article by director Dana Edell at CAN: Ripples of the Fourth Wave: New York’s viBePoetry
Soliya is developing a global network of young adults and empowering them to bridge the divide between the “West” and the “Arab & Muslim World.”
Soliya is a pioneering non-profit organization using new technologies to facilitate dialogue between students from diverse backgrounds across the globe. Our flagship program, the Connect Program, uses the latest web-conferencing technology to bridge the gap between university students in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the United States. In a time when media plays an increasingly powerful role in shaping peoples’ viewpoints on political issues, Soliya provides students with the opportunity, skills, and tools to shape and articulate their own viewpoints on some of the most pressing global issues facing their generation. more
watch this for an overview
Contrast Project: Palestinian Youth Photo Project
The Contrast Project works with youth in using digital photography and video as tools for expression and advocacy. The project started in the summer of 2006 with photography trainings with two youth groups in the Bethlehem area of the Palestinian Territories.
I’m still searching for a website for the program, but here’s an article I had found a while ago:
This is another great kids and cameras organization with a sustainable model that exists in a few countries, including Romania and Tanzania, among others. I am in the process of potentially working with them in the Romanian Clinical Center of Excellence in Bucharest.
— Brett Mayfield
I really think what David has done is amazing. I am inspired by an NYU graduate so close in age giving back to the community through the arts. I really like the Gallery page as an idea of how we can introduce our students on our individual web pages.
Posted by Megan E Fingleton