It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

The Puppet Co. Playhouse at Glen Echo Park is one of the few theatres designed exclusively for puppet shows and is the only year-round theater between New York and Atlanta dedicated entirely to the art of puppetry. This unique Washington D.C. area resource brings wonderful music and literature to life for students, teachers, and parents through live, fully-staged productions of some of the finest children's theater in the country

We inspire creative self-expression to empower individuals through the discovery of new talents and interests. We employ the Arts to find common ground and wider understanding of our varied cultures. We help build lasting relationships to strengthen communities.

CREATE works with diverse and non-traditional partners across our mental health services and art education programs, including Community Bridges, Shepherd’s Table, A Wider Circle, Montgomery County Public Schools, Linkages to Learning, YMCA, & other nonprofits and businesses.

Bethesda Green is a sustainable urban ecosystem that enhances green living, ensures environmental protection, and facilitates growth of responsible businesses. We work to address environmental challenges locally by creating a sustainable, green community, built collaboratively through citizen engagement, environmental education, government partnership and innovative business development.

BlackRock Center for the Arts, the leading venue for the performing and visual arts in Upper Montgomery County, MD, provides the community with the highest level of quality performances, free gallery exhibitions, and arts education classes in a welcoming and intimate setting close to home.

AWC's holistic approach focuses on neighborhood revitalization, the creation of stable homes, workforce development programming to move families to economic self-sufficiency, and the creation of greater awareness and engagement by the community. The Essential Support Program provides beds, furniture and other basic home goods to those leaving homelessness, fleeing domestic abuse, recovering from disaster, or simply living without the basics that make a home a home

FGCB is a community-based organization which offers youth and their families a 'pipeline' of educational interventions comprising academic readiness, supportive services and guidance to achieve high school graduation, college admissions and earn a post-secondary degree.

Free Minds uses the transformative tools of books, writing, and peacebuilding to create a community of support, assisting incarcerated and formerly incarcerated youths and adults to achieve their education, career, and life goals, write new chapters in their lives, and become powerful voices for change.

CASE offers adoption-competent therapy for children, parents, and families; therapy and case management for children whose age or circumstances create added challenges in finding permanent homes; and training and education for hundreds of professionals about the unique challenges of adoption, foster, and kinship care. If this is your cause, you have found your home.

We are nationally recognized as a leader in the field of creative aging. We flip negative paradigms about aging, emphasizing agency and potential as we grow older. Our program addresses economic need through a model that is fee-based with financial aid opportunities. Most of our client communities benefit from reduced rates thanks to donations from individuals, businesses, foundations, and government agencies. Our arts workshops are at no cost to individuals regardless of their community’s financial status. 

Action Youth Media's filmmaking program for teens is a place where they can express themselves, be accepted, and feel heard. In free after-school classes and workshops, they learn from experienced professionals — storytelling, scriptwriting, camera work, and other technical skills — co-creating films rooted in social justice.