For over 10 years, Cultural Arts Research Ensemble (C.A.R.E.) has worked to provide our community’s children and teens who are underserved by other organizations with heritage-based cultural arts programs that support development to their full individual potential.

CARE funds have been used to positively impact thousands of lives by:

• Providing cultural arts programming in public schools in underserved communities with a high level of minority residents
• Promoting understanding by children and teens of their ethnic and cultural heritage and the impact on their lives today, as a means to more positive self-esteem
• Supplementing the tuition fees needed for individual dance classes at Orlando School of Cultural Dance, for those children and teens who are underserved and for whom heritage dance classes would otherwise be unobtainable

CARE has been a catalyst in cultural dance and arts in Central Florida since its founding in 1997. Under standard governmental scrutiny, they have demonstrated administrative and fiscal responsibility in handling public grants of up to $100,000.00 and have successfully completed:

• 4 Mayor’s Education Partnership Grants with the City of Orlando;
• 5 grants with the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice servicing youth-at-risk; and
• 7 annual African/Caribbean dance extravaganzas that have received public acclaim and are the source of continued programming on local television.

CARE is making a positive, measurable difference in the lives of Orlando’s youth and in the Orlando community.

Board of Directors