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OneWorld Classrooms has established important partnerships with the following organizations. (Also see Supporters.) The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) NYFA, a 501(c)(3), tax-exempt organization founded in 1971 to work with the arts community in New York State, aims to provide the time and resources for the creative mind and the artistic spirit to think, work, and prosper. NYFA stands out as a leader in serving the philanthropic community by matching donor interest and values with creative people and projects. OneWorld Classrooms is a NYFA fiscally sponsored Emerging Organization. NYFA receives grants on behalf of OneWorld Classrooms and provides OneWorld Classrooms with banking and accounting services and technical assistance. WorldTeach is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that provides opportunities for individuals to make a meaningful contribution to international education by living and working as volunteer teachers in developing countries. WorldTeach volunteers in Namibia, China, Ecuador and Chile help OneWorld Classrooms to coordinate artwork, music, letter, photo and video exchanges. Educators Overseas is an international teacher recruiting agency that finds jobs for teachers and school administrators from America , Canada , the UK , Australia , South Africa , and New Zealand in K-12 international schools around the world. Their mission is to place the highest quality teachers and school administrators in the best possible jobs overseas. Teachers working abroad through Educators Overseas and their international school students participate in cultural exchanges with US schools through One World Classrooms. The Peace Corps is a US government overseas volunteer program established by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to promote world peace and friendship. Peace Corps Volunteers in Mali, South Africa and Ecuador have helped OneWorld Classrooms coordinate artwork, music, PowerPoint and video exchanges with partner classes in the US. The National Consortium for Teaching About Asia (NCTA) The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA), funded by the Freeman The Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation The Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, which funds efforts to promote arts education, has supported the OneWorld Classrooms with an annual grant since 2001. Click here for a biography of artist Milton Avery. The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, Inc. The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, Inc. is interested in the study of the relationship between art, culture and humanity. In particular, the Foundation's interest is the ancient art of the Himalayas, with the related goal of exploring the relationships between this art and that of other cultures. Areas of particular interest include: the celebration of ethnic and cultural diversity which simultaneously encourages inter-group understanding; and cultural and arts programs which encourage individual and community identity. The Himalayan Art Website is a virtual museum and international research database containing over 20,000 images, 15,000 records, and 1000 thematic sets. It contains art from both the foundation and the Shelley and Donald Rubin personal collection. The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, Inc. has awarded OneWorld Classrooms two grants that have helped it to develop Cultural Profiles of Historic and Modern China, a multi-media online resource for grades 7-12, including sections on Tibet and Sichuan Province that are currently being developed. The Freeman Foundation The Freeman Foundation's major objectives include strengthening the bonds of friendship between the United States and the countries of the Far East. Through education and educational institutes, the Foundation aims to develop a greater appreciation of oriental cultures, histories, and economies in the US and a better understanding of the American people and of American institutions and purposes by the peoples of East Asia. The Freeman Foundation awarded the Creative Connections Project a Challenge Grant to help develop its China School Project and Cultural Profiles of Historic and Modern China during the 2005/2006 school year.
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