Takashi Horisaki and a small team of volunteers were working 20-hour days in the 100-degree heat when OPP found them completing an art project in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. Working on a largely abandoned block of the city, they worked with a mission to remind people of "what is still happening" in NOLA two years after the floods. www.takashihorisaki.com
Emergency Communities is a non-profit organization that employs compassion and creativity to provide community-based disaster relief. Since Katrina, we have operated four relief sites, served over 300,000 meals and 25,000 residents of the Gulf.
The Palast Investigative Fund is a 501c-3 registered not-for-profit Foundation. All donations are tax-deductible and go 100% towards supporting the Palast reports and investigations. The Palast Investigative Fund is managed by the International Humanities Center.www.palastinvestigativefund.org
The Tipitina's Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation dedicated to preserving the cultural legacy of New Orleans through music education for the youth and providing programs that support working musicians of New Orleans and the Gulf Region. Since Hurricane Katrina, the Foundation has donated over one million dollars worth of instruments to New Orleans Area schools as well as programs that benefit musicians of all ages. www.tipitinasfoundation.org
Charleston Kids with Cameras is an on-going mentorship program formed to help inner city boys and girls see both the world beyond their neighborhoods and the opportunities available to them.www.charlestonkidswithcameras.org
Yes is a World is a nonprofit organization working to promote peace and social change through musical diversity and the collaboration of young artists. Our accomplishments to date include large-scale performances featuring solo acts, choirs and orchestras; small recitals by individual artists; and fund-raising benefits supporting other humanitarian organizations. www.yesisaworld.org
Katrina Ballads is a brand new collection of songs inspired by the tragic events surrounding Hurricane Katrina. This work uses entirely primary-source texts to paint a rich musical portrait of that devastating and telling week in September 2005. Setting the words of flood survivors, relief workers, politicians and celebrities, New York composer Ted Hearne creates a cutting-edge musical experience and a vivid look into America's darkest hours. The music is rhythmic, theatrical, and American to the core, possessing an edgy post-minimalist drive and a deep jazz influence. It is a moving performance, challenging us to remember and reflect upon our own history. www.newmusiccollective.org
The Connection TV Network, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, works through a spirit of affirmation and acceptance, promoting understanding, celebrating diversity, and presenting the human side of social issues.
Small World News / Alive in Baghdad Alive in Baghdad is empowering Iraqis to share their stories with the world, and provides a place of education and interaction for global citizens interested in the real life political, military, economic and social situation in Iraq. Above all, Alive in Baghdad is devoted to empowering Iraqi citizen journalists to share their stories with the world in a personal, candid and non-bureaucratic way. We endeavor to cut through the red tape and politics of corporate news and deliver the real stories, from real people, everyday. www.aliveinbaghdad.org
Pura Vida No Pro is a surf event held every year in Jaco, Costa Rica to benefit the orphans from Casa De Suenos in San Jose, CR. To learn more visit www.puravidanopro.com.
Camp Can Do / SC Burned Children's Fund MUSC Burned Children's Hospital Fund is a continuation of a program founded in 1986 by South Carolina's firefighters and MUSC Children's Hospital to ease the recovery process for MUSC's pediatric burn patients and their families. Donations to this fund support South Carolina's only referral center for pediatric burns, MUSC Children's Hospital Pediatric Burn Center. www.scburnedchildrensfund.org
SC Lowcountry Environmental Education Program (LEEP) with a mission to provide opportunities for students of all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds to explore South Carolina's natural environment through experiential learning. www.scleep.org
The Charleston Tibetan Society The Charleston Tibetan Society is a non-profit religious and educational organization under the spiritual direction of Geshe Dakpa Topgyal. It was founded in 1994 with three missions: to increase the awareness of Tibet and its unique culture, to bring the major world religions together to make a more effective contribution to humanity and world peace, and to raise funds to help Tibetan refugees living in India, Nepal and Bhutan.www.charlestontibetansociety.com
New Music Collective (NMC) The New Music Collective (NMC) is a brand new hybrid of an arts organization devoted to the composition, production, and promotion of new music. We hope to educate the public about new music through concerts, performances, workshops and collaborations with artists of every medium. We are part performing ensemble, part composers collective, part concert presenter, and part arts event coordinator. The NMC is comprised mainly of 3 local musicians and composers, in addition to a "collective" of performers that help supplement the ensemble as needed for each concert. The term “NEW” doesn’t have a lot of limitations for the New Music Collective, as we plan on mixing genres, styles, ensembles, and artistic traditions all across the board. We plan to focus on music and art that is new and has been recently composed, but we will also pay homage to those who started the sounds that made it necessary to create a genre called “new music” in the first place. www.newmusiccollective.org