Aromas Hils Artisans seek to celebrate and inspire the creation of art by providing support, education, and enrichment for our members and for the community.
We are dedicated to bringing people from all cultures together through education, facilitation, and promotion of all disciplines of the arts in Monterey County, furthering intercultural understanding in our community, cultivating cultural tourism in Salinas, and the economic advancement of local artists and youth in the underserved population.
Caminos Del Arte enhances the cultural life of our community by educating our youth, through arts training, mentoring, performance and cultural programs. We teach and promote traditional and nontraditional arts, which fill cultural voids in our community, and we provide leadership skills that will last a lifetime.
Carmel Heritage Society protects, preserves, and promotes the cultural heritage of Carmel-by-the-Sea in a way that encourages public recognition and participation so that people will have a greater knowledge and appreciation of the community and its sphere of influence.
The Carmel Youth Center is committed to providing a positive and academically friendly environment that is safe, drug-alcohol-and-tobacco-free, and is designed for the community youth.
Programs: http://www.carmelyouth.com/program-become-a-member.php
Chamber Music Monterey Bay enriches the cultural life of the community by promoting high-quality chamber music through a world-class concert series and community education programs.
The mission of Colleagues of the Arts (COTA) is to provide opportunities to help gifted, under-served Monterey County artists realize their potential in the arts by offering support for on-going lessons, equipment, and programs, as well as on-going mentoring.
Community Partnership for Youth (CPY) is a prevention program providing positive alternatives to gangs, drugs, and violence while reinforcing individual strengths. Our vision is to provide our youth with a safe, structured environment that encourages healthy boundaries, positive self-esteem, and the ability to make good choices for a full and successful life.
Programs and Classes: http://cpy.org/programs/
Established in 2001, the DEA Educational Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization that exists to support the DEA Museum through fundraising, advocacy and educational outreach, exhibit sponsorship, and educational program development.
Ensemble Monterey Chamber Orchestra enriches the cultural life of the California Central Coast by performing adventurous, exciting, innovative music not otherwise available to our community.
The mission of the Festa Italia Santa Rosalia Foundation is to enrich the community life of everyone in our region by celebrating the arts, culture, and heritage of our Italian community by presenting and providing scholarships for local students.
The Foundation for Monterey County Free Libraries was founded with the goal of supporting vital enhancement programs for the Monterey County Free Libraries. In 1989, Mark Massel left a $100,000 bequest to the county libraries. The head librarian at the time, Dallas Shaffer, had a vision of using the funds to create an institution that would support the local libraries for years to come.
Programs and Classes: http://www.fmcfl.org/programs.htm
Our mission is to provide a Salinas World Pop Dance and Leadership program which addresses youth leadership issues in a low-income, high-risk area through dance and the performing arts.
Workshops at Cesar Chavez Library in Salinas on Saturdays from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
The mission of Girls Incorporated of the Central Coast (GICC) is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, bold, and to respect themselves and the world around them. Our philosophy is to create a community recognizing that each young person already embodies the qualities and strengths to achieve self-empowerment and become a leader. Our role is to cultivate and grow those qualities.
JazzAge Monterey exists to facilitate the live performance of early jazz and other historically related music of the 1920s and '30s as part of the American musical heritage, and to educate and encourage young people to learn, appreciate, and perform this music.
The mission of Ladies First is to motivate and encourage at-risk females, by providing them with tools to enhance their socialization skills through education, cultural exposure, and skill-set development workshops.
Our mission is to cultivate art appreciation and encourage community involvement in the arts through exhibits, classes, and events to children, youth and adults living in Monterey County.
Our mission is to provide cultural enrichment programs to citizens of Monterey County.
The Forest Theater is an historic amphitheater in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. Founded in 1910, it is one of the oldest outdoor theaters west of the Rockies. Actor/director Herbert Heron is generally cited as the founder and driving force, and poet/novelist Mary Austin is often credited with suggesting the idea.
Sol Treasures awakens and nurtures appreciation and passion for the arts in people of all ages in South Monterey County and provides a home for creative and inspiring opportunities to unify the community through art and culture. We fulfil our mission through our gallery of local artists, classes in art, music and theater for all ages, and cultural enrichment events.
Classes: www.soltreasures.com
The mission of the Soledad-Mission Recreation District is to enrich our community through the provision of programs and facilities that enhance positive, wholesome, and healthy recreation.
Classes (scroll down to art classes): http://www.soledad-mission-recreation-district.org/programs/
Our mission is to serve as a multi-purpose gathering place that enriches, educates, inspires, and entertains Monterey County residents and visitors by presenting performances, visual arts, and education programs, and by hosting public, private, and community events.
The mission of The Links, Inc, Monterey Bay Chapter is to be an organization committed to the development and implementation of programs that inspire people of African American origin through cultural, educational, and civic participation. We have accomplished this in our chapter by faithfully striving to be proactive and making a presence in the communities that we serve. By doing so, we have facilitated positive change in our chapter's service areas on the Monterey Peninsula, and globally have been able to transcend time, race, social, and economic differences by reaching out and partnering with other organizations.
Our mission is to inspire a global response that eliminates the barriers preventing a diversity of girls from having a personal relationship with the ocean and with one another.
Our mission is to establish a viable street paper empowering and liberating opportunity for the homeless and marginalized population of Monterey County to voice their views, build useful publishing skills, build the community with a newspaper, provide income with the newspaper, and be a forum for community dialogue about the issues of homelessness and poverty in Monterey County.