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New York Insight Meditation Center

New York Insight – is an urban center for the practice of mindful awareness, called Insight or Vipassana meditation. NYI programs include talks, weekly sittings and courses as well as daylong and weekend retreats and workshops for the integration of meditation teachings into daily life. NYI strives to be a center that reflects the vivid diversity of the city in which we live. Our center is a place where everyone of different ages, nationalities, cultures, languages, ethnicities, sexual orientation, and spiritual backgrounds is welcome to begin or deepen meditation practice based on the teachings of the Buddha.

KIPP Infinity Elementary School

KIPP Infinity Elementary School

Berkshire Hills Music Academy

Berkshire Hills Music Academy is a vibrant community offering a post-secondary transition program as well as a long-term graduate program for young adults with intellectual disabilities. Set in the beautiful Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, BHMA offers a music-infused, college-like experience via the Two Year Certificate Program for young adults between the ages of 18-30.

Ohio Wesleyan University

Hunter College

University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Suzuki Association of the Americas

More than fifty years ago, Japanese violinist Shinichi Suzuki realized the implications of the fact that children the world over learn to speak their native language with ease. He began to apply the basic principles of language acquisition to the learning of music, and called his method the mother-tongue approach. The ideas of parent responsibility, loving encouragement, constant repetition, etc., are some of the special features of the Suzuki approach.

Mu Phi Epsilon (ΜΦΕ) is a co-ed international professional music fraternity. Today, Mu Phi Epsilon has chapters both nationally and internationally. The fraternity supports achievement in music through the awarding of grants and scholarships, as well as music competitions, concerts, and summer music programs. Much of this work has been supported by the Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation, an organization that has been in existence since 1963, as well as fundraising and donations.

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