Camp Hazen YMCA is one of New England’s most remarkable summer camps and outdoor education centers. We have been providing quality camping experiences for kids, families and school groups for more than 90 years.
Camp Hazen YMCA is committed to helping youth develop valuable life skills through camping experiences that build healthy bodies, open minds and awakened spirits.
EduMais is a Brazilian non-profit organization that fights against education inequality in one of the world’s most unequal cities, Rio de Janeiro.
Their programs teach underprivileged young people in three favelas the English, technological, and life skills to build their own path out of urban and digital poverty.
They also use Positive Discipline and social and emotional learning so students can work through the trauma of growing up in areas marked by drugs and violence.
We envision a global community of investors who benefit financially from our products and capitalize on the shift towards decarbonization, decentralization, and digitization.
Established as an initiative for street children in 2005, Eduardo Fares’ Cia. Dança e Arte de Paraty now trains nearly 400 local youngsters in ballet, classical, jazz, folkloric, modern and contemporary ballroom dance. The troupe has received many prestigious awards. BRAYCE pledges support for the purchase of fabrics and materials for upcoming dance festival costumes.
Associação Casa Azul is a non-profit organization based in Paraty in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Its goal is to promote the sustainable development of Paraty through urban revitalization, preservation of the local heritage and the region’s natural ecosystems, the encouragement of sensitive ecotourism as well as the protection and development of traditional communities
Brazil’s biggest literary event, FLIP (Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty), was inaugurated in 2003, the first such cultural event in South America. Its primary goal is to raise levels of awareness abroad of Brazil’s rich literary and cultural output, by bringing leading writers from overseas to meet Brazil’s top authors and their reading public. FLIP was an immediate hit with Brazilian media and public alike, and the four-day event now typically attracts in excess of 20,000 visitors to a town of 25,000 inhabitants, making a huge impact on Paraty’s economy.
ITAE (Institute of Art & Education), founded in 1987, is a nonprofit situated in the Barrio Parque da Mangueira of Paraty, the most densely populated, low-income, part of the city. With the support of the Government and civil society ITAE offers art workshops, education, sports and special projects free to young people between 6 and 18 years. These projects also involve their families and promotes activities for the surrounding communities, reinforcing the concept of Education and Art, while promoting respect for children and teens.