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This list of selected arts, dialogue, civic, and democracy organizations and websites was originally compiled in 2003 by Animating Democracy from resources of the Community Arts Network and the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation.
| Alliance of Artists' Communities | |
| Address: | 255 South Main Street |
| Providence, RI 02903 | |
| The Alliance of Artists' Communities, a nationwide consortium and professional organization for the field, advances the role artist communities play in the evolution of new ideas and art. Through communication and service to their members, national advocacy for creative environments, and a belief in the power of the creative process, the Alliance operates on the premise that the future of American culture depends on supporting creativity and a broad diversity of artists. Their members include professionally run artist communities, other nonprofit organizations that support artists in the development of their work, and individuals. | |
| America Speaks | |
| Address: | 1612 U Street, NW, Suite 408 |
| Washington, DC 20009 | |
| Phone: | 202.299.1022 |
| Fax: | 202.299.0128 |
| Contact: | Anne Shoup |
| Title: | General Information |
| Promotes the founding belief that every citizen has a right to impact the decisions of government. Serves as a neutral convener of large-scale public participation forums. | |
| The Arts and Culture Indicators in Community Building Project | |
| Address: | c/o The Urban Institute |
| 2100 M Street, NW | |
| Washington, DC 20037 | |
| Phone: | 202.833.7200 |
| Contact: | Maria-Rosario Jackson |
| Title: | ACIP Principal Investigator |
| Arts and culture indicators for use in local planning, policymaking, and community building. Part of the Urban Institute's National Neighborhood Indicators Parnership. | |
| Arts for Change | |
| Address: | University of Washington, Tacoma |
| 1900 Commerce Street | |
| Tacoma, WA 98402 | |
| Phone: | 253.692.4623 |
| Contact: | Beverly Nadius |
| Organizations supporting art for healing and social change with workshops in activist art and teaching, archive of site-spcific works, interactive storyboard, articles, bibliography, and links. | |
| Arts of Citizenship | |
| Address: | University of Michigan |
| 1220 South University Avenue, #215 | |
| Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2585 | |
| Phone: | 734.615.0609 |
| Fax: | 734.998.6159 |
| This is a University of Michigan program with community arts training programs, major cultural partnerships with community organizations, and grant support for innovative teaching and arts projects. | |
| Asian American Arts Initiative | |
| Address: | 1315 Cherry Street, 2nd Floor East |
| Philadelphia, PA 19107 | |
| Phone: | 215.557.0455 |
| A Philadeliphia-based arts center with artists-in-community training, youth arts workshop, ap series, and special projects. | |
| ATLATL | |
| Address: | 49 East Thomas Road, Suite #105 |
| Phoenix, AZ 85012 | |
| Phone: | 602.277.3711 |
| Fax: | 602.277.3690 |
| Service organization for Native American artists and arts organizations that has a newsletter, biennial conference, traveling exhibition, and leadership training. | |
| The Benton Foundation | |
| Address: | 1625 K Street, NW |
| 11th Floor | |
| Washington, DC 20006 | |
| Phone: | 202.638.5770 |
| Fax: | 202.638.5771 |
| Works to realize the social benefits made possible by the public interest use of communications. Bridges the worlds of philanthropy, public policy, and community action. | |
| Better Together | |
| Address: | c/o The Saguaro Seminar, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
| 79 JFK Street | |
| Cambridge, MA 02138 | |
| Phone: | 617.495.1148 |
| Fax: | 617.495.1589 |
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An initiative of Saguaro Seminar on Civic Engagement in America at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, measuring social capital and the role of the arts. |
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| Brown University's Center for Public Service | |
| Address: | Box 1974 |
| Providence, RI 02912 | |
| Phone: | 401.863.2338 |
| Fax: | 401.863.3094 |
| Contact: | Peter Hocking |
| Title: | Director |
| The center is Brown University's community connection. It offers the Community Partnership Database (under Civic Sector Partnershps) with arts and culture programs like SPACE (Space in Prison for the Arts and Creative Expression). | |
