Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts Education, Children & Youth, Education, Youth Development

Mission: Create Now is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization that helps youth find their voices through arts mentoring and education.

Results: For over 25 years, Create Now has served more than 50,000 of the most vulnerable youth in Southern California. We empower kids from ages 3 to age 24 through high-quality programs in music, writing, performing arts, digital media, visual arts, fashion and culinary arts.

Target demographics: Create Now’s mission is to empower at-risk and high-risk youth and young adults from ages 3 to 24 through a variety of arts programs in multiple disciplines that help them to heal and thrive. Our goal is to introduce them to the power of arts, and learn skills that can lead to jobs and careers.

Direct beneficiaries per year: 3,631 of the neediest youth in the region.

Geographic areas served: Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura

Programs: Music, Visual Arts, Writing, Fashion, Culinary Arts, Digital Media, Performing Arts and Cultural Journeys which each year brings thousands of underserved kids to concerts, plays and special events like Cirque du Soleil.