A Window Between Worlds is a nonprofit organization dedicated to using art as a healing tool to empower and transform individuals and communities impacted by violence and trauma. A Window Between Worlds envisions a world where safety, healing and hope replace violence, silence and shame; where art is a catalyst to release trauma, build resilience and ignite social change to end domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault and intimate partner violence.
AWBW's Core Values are:
Safety: If trauma is understood as a break in safety, then safety must form the foundation for healing. Art creates a life-changing space for expression, release and healing.
Transformation: Our most challenging struggles, voiced through art, can become strengths which catalyze social change and personal transformation.
Connection: We foster the shared leadership of a broad network of individuals, agencies and sectors dedicated to using art to meet the unique needs of the communities they serve.
Creativity: Artistic creation is a human right that belongs at the center of strategies for change by individuals, families and communities.
Respect: We honor the inherent ability of each person to heal from trauma and believe art offers a pivotal path toward self-esteem, self-expression and self-empowerment.
Collaboration: More hands and minds working together on issues of abuse and violence builds deeper understanding, stronger community strategies, and greater personal safety for everyone.
Diversity: We honor the fundamental value and dignity of all individuals and pledge ourselves to creating and maintaining an environment that is inclusive of all.
Green Dot, etc. is an organization built on the premise that we can measurably and systematically reduce violence within any given community. We believe current research across disciplines, in combination with lessons learned from history, provides nearly all of the necessary puzzle pieces to create a successful model of violence prevention. Given this foundation of knowledge, we believe any group, committed to equipping themselves with the necessary skills and willing to let go of historically ineffective approaches, has the capacity to implement a successful violence prevention strategy. Though the primary mission of Green Dot, etc. is the reduction of power-based personal violence, we also recognize the inextricable link between effective prevention and effective intervention. As such, Green Dot, etc. includes, within its mission, the strengthening of intervention services and strategies across forms of violence.
Threads of Color is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2009 by Ionia Dunn Lee, who had a dream that she was wearing a coat of many colors. Not knowing what the dream meant, she shared her dream with a few people, and later on she realized that the threads of the colorful coat in her dream referred to the global mixture of fashion designers on and around Seventh Avenue in New York City. It was then that she began to make her dream a reality by inviting industry professionals and fashion designers to take part in the Threads of Color Mission.
The designers who participate in Threads of Color come from all parts of the globe and each one has a design presence in America. The students who receive Threads of Color scholarships represent diverse global cultures and attend a variety of fashion colleges. The industry professionals who participate as Threads of Color Board Members are also from different parts of the world, residing in America. Like threads sewn together to make a beautiful garment, each person brings to the organization their rich, vibrant culture to carry out the Threads of Color mission.
Mission: Threads of Color is dedicated to serving the fashion community by celebrating the global diversity of well-established, newly-established, and emerging American fashion designers, raising scholarship funds for fashion students, and providing professional, educational and diversity opportunities for designers and fashion students.
Road to Recovery is the only nonprofit organization in the United States that offers compassionate counseling and referral services to survivors of clergy sexual abuse. Founded by two priest advocates, Fr. Robert M. Hoatson and Fr. Kenneth E. Lasch, Road to Recovery assists survivors with their emotional, psychological, financial, and spiritual needs as they attempt to recover from the effects of clergy sexual abuse.
Mission: Road to Recovery is dedicated to helping provide direct and indirect services to victims of abuse, increasing public awareness of the issues connected with clergy sexual abuse, advocating for change in the treatment of abuse victims, and lobbying for the support of the Catholic Church for solutions that promote the healing of victims and their families.
ChildsPlay International carries a simple vision. Play is a very important part often central to the normal and healthy development of any child – physically, mentally, and emotionally. ChildsPlay International is a not-for-profit organization made up of like-minded people committed to bringing play into the lives that need it most, and have if least. This includes children living in refugee status, homeless, street children, and others who can benefit.
The mission of ChildsPlay International is to create activities, and participate in endeavors that serve its vision, all over the world. Part of that mission is to help other organization, individuals, and like-minded folk carry the work forward through interaction, dialogue, mentorship, sharing, and collaboration.
