CN emphasis is on charitable organizations and non-profits oriented to disadvantaged children.

Art Start aims to value and nurture the voices, hearts and minds of under-served children and teenagers and help them to transform their lives through the creative process. The charity offers several programs, including the "Art in the Shelters" initiative, which works with homeless kids in New York City to help the children develop self-expression and raise self-esteem through the process of making art. Click here to visit art-start.org

Opening Act provides after school theater programming to New York City's public high schools that have no or few theater opportunities for its students. Its programs provide a permanent theater space in each partnering school, where students can develop their creativity while learning acting technique and working collaboratively to write and perform original ensemble productions. www.openingactnewyork.org

Lollipop Theater Network is dedicated to bringing the laughter and magic of movies to children hospitalized with debilitating illnesses. Collaborating with movie studios, LTN arranges private hospital screenings of newly released films. lollipoptheater.org

Voices Found sends professional writers and visual artists to work with children at New York City HIV/AIDs centers. It is a program that brings joy into the lives of kids who struggle to have a happy childhood.

Afro Brazil Arts empowers children through capoeira and is based on the belief that capoeira has the unique ability to teach FDR--focus, discipline and respect. Afro Brazil Arts has earned a stellar reputation among New York City educators for instilling FDR in some of New York City’s toughest schools. Children learn dance, song and Brazilian instruments. /www.afrobrazilarts.org

If not us. Who?
If not now. When?

John F. Kennedy in inaugural address 1962