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Access the following websites to learn more about our growing list of friends within The Culture Shop Community.
Ashoka, Innovators for the Public
Ashoka is the global association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs--men and women with system changing solutions for the world's most urgent social problems.
Calvert Foundation
Calvert Foundation provide investors with innovative financial products and services that channel flexible, affordable capital to underserved communities.
Center for Social Leadership
CSL's mission is to teach low-income youth the necessary career-building leadership skills to design their own exit strategies from poverty.
Children's Defense Fund
Ensures every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life...
Curtain Call Productions, Inc
Curtain call TV provides an extensive spectrum of artistic programs for aspiring artists.
DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation
DC Children and Youth is an organization formed to link public and private resources, creativity and commitment to address strategically, the long term needs of children, youth and families in the District of Columbia.
Esperanza en Accion
Empowers Nicaraguan artisans, fair trade garment factory workers (former sweatshop workers), and fair trade coffee farming cooperatives and their families.
Earth Day Network
Founded by the organizers of the first Earth Day in 1970, Earth Day Network (EDN) promotes environmental citizenship and year round progressive action worldwide.
Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International
Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO) is part of a worldwide network of Fair Trade organizations actively involved in supporting producers, awareness raising and campaigning for changes in the rules and practices of conventional international trade.
Friends of Choice in Urban Schools
FOCUS promotes high quality autonomous public schools in the nation's capital.
Institute for Local Self Reliance
ILSR provides technical assistance and information on environmentally sound economic development strategies. Since 1974, ILSR has worked with citizen groups, governments and private businesses in developing policies that extract the maximum value from local resources.
Letters About Literature
Offers an invitation to readers in grades 4 through 12 to enter Letters About Literature, a national reading-writing contest. Readers write a personal letter to an author, living or dead, from any genre-- fiction or nonfiction, contemporary or classic, explaining how that author's work changed the student's way of thinking about the world or themselves.
Old Takoma Business Association
OTBA brings together businesses, residents and community organizations dedicated to developing a vibrant market center, from Takoma Junction Maryland to the Takoma Theatre, DC, to enhance our unique and historic town setting.
OneWorld - U.S.
OneWorld is a global information network developed to support communication media of the people, by the people and for the people -- everywhere.
Opening Minds
OPENING MINDS The Washington Region for Justice & Inclusion (WRJI) is committed to upholding the values of equality, understanding and respect for all people.
Social Edge
Social Edge is the global online community where social entrepreneurs and other practitioners of the social benefit sector connect to network, learn, inspire and share resources.
Teaching for Change
TFC provides teachers and parents with the tools to transform schools into centers of justice where students learn to read, write and change the world.
The International Ecotourism Society
TIES promotes responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people.
Tobacco Free Kids
Can you believe that every single day, 1,500 more of America's kids become regular smokers? And that one-third of them will die prematurely as a result?
TransFair USA
TransFair USA is one of twenty members of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO), and the only third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States.
United Nations Development Programme
UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life.
Urban Youth Racing School
UYRS provides inner-city youths (ages 8-18) with an awareness of the motorsports industry through education, service learning, training and racing.
Washington Jesuit Academy
WJA prepares disadvantaged boys to become "men for others" who will be able to better manage the academic rigors of a college preparatory high school.
World Watch Institute
Worldwatch Institute offers a unique blend of interdisciplinary research, global focus, and accessible writing that has made it a leading source of information on the interactions among key environmental, social, and economic trends.
YMCA of Metropolitan Washington, DC
The "Y" opens the doors to many exciting individual, family, and community programs.
Young Women's Drumming Empowerment Project
YWDEP is a youth arts empowerment organization that strives to create a safe environment free of fear and intimidation in order to assist young women in the examination of their own experiences...
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