The primary purpose of the Henderson Hopkins project, is to introduce young people to the art of collage and enable their use of collage to express their thoughts and feelings and communicate those with one another and the wider community. The Baltimore City Chapter of the Pierians, Incorporated, was awarded a matching grant in 2018 and the Community Outreach Committee facilitates the project by partnering with the Reginald Lewis Museum and the Johns Hopkins School of Education.

The Urban Youth Harp Ensemble (UYHE) was founded in 2000 by Elisabeth Remy Johnson, harpist of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and Roselyn Lewis, a longtime Atlanta public schools music teacher known for exposing students to opera and African drums. Established as a nonprofit organization, separate from the Atlanta school district, the ensemble’s goal was to give children the opportunity to play the harp.

The program curriculum was created by Flint Chapter literary artist/educator, Semaj Brown, and augmented by professional art educators: Edith Withey, Visual Arts; Diane Kirksey, Music; Janet Poole-Little, Drama; with invaluable insights, from Corinne Edwards, Ed.D. The goal was to accomplish the integration of social justice and drama and to show the students through self-determination art, the historical evolution of social injustice and to teach the children coping mechanisms.

In 2016 and 2018, grants were awarded to the Edwina Hunter Studio, sponsored by the Columbia, Maryland Chapter for the Piano Olympics project. This project’s goal is to raise the level and skill for each student pianist, while providing a community audience for the artists to perform and providing musical performance for the community.

The Finest! Performance Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non- profit, focuses on personal character and talent development of youth by providing education and artistic development, theater skills, mental development, critical thinking skills, social development and intrapersonal skills. Sponsored by the Montgomery County Chapter, The Finest! Performance Foundation, with the ANKH Repertory Theatre and the City of Gaithersburg, presented mixed-media African American themed theatrical/musical shows.

The Mint Artist Guild (MAG) of Detroit, Inc, Paint Detroit with Generosity which is a career-oriented, pragmatic initiative that helps young artists build lucrative and sustainable careers in the arts and focuses on Detroit residents -- ages 14-22-- in high school or college or on a gap year and trains them to work in many visual mediums including photography, ceramics, digital art, jewelry, and fine paintings

Capitol Movement, Inc. Moving Classrooms in the District of Columbia, is an initiative that operates “moving classrooms” in order to facilitate youth dance programs that provide elite-level training and performance opportunities preparing a crop of well-seasoned professionals to work in dance.