Thrive Collective
So grateful for our partnership with SpikeBanner, who is taking #BringArtBack to the streets in brilliantly creative ways during the holidays. How cool is this! Thank you NYC Service and the NYC Mayor’s office for making the introduction. Join the movement. From SpikeBanner’s Facebook page: Teaching art gets students to think critically. We are happy to be…
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It’s finally here! Today, we are launching our second #GivingTuesday campaign. Thanks to a generous friend, the first $5,000 we raise on November 28th will be matched dollar for dollar. Give Now #GivingTuesday is a global day of giving and a great way to get involved with your favorite charities. What started back in 2012 with a handful of…
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This Thanksgiving we celebrate the artists who collaboratively create beauty with our public school students every day. Last year alone, twenty teaching artists and art directors plus dozens of artist volunteers worked with 3,000 students at twenty schools to produce twenty-five murals totaling almost 10,000 square feet of public art – including murals in Los…
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Brooklyn students unite with #Dreamers nationwide for the #CaminoDeSueños (Path of Dreams). Tell your DC Representatives and Senators to pass comprehensive immigration reform, including a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers. @noelcastellanos @iamccda @mcfwarren A post shared by Thrive Collective (@nycthrive) on Nov 16, 2017 at 8:17am PST It's on! The first of the #caminodesueños assemblies…
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Pilgrimage heads to NYC engaging support for DACA students through art, stories and action BROOKLYN, New York — With the fate of DACA recipients yet to be determined and the need for a legislative fix for dreamers to be taken up by Congress, the national Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) and NYC-based non-profit Thrive Collective…
read moreOn September 26 Thrive Collective’s staff, board, volunteers, students, and community supporters gathered at the United Federation of Teachers to create more awareness for the #BringArtBack campaign. Thank you to everyone that was able to join us as we honored NYC First Lady Charlene McCray; global artist Domingo Zapata; and Rev. Dr. Raymond Rivera for…
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We are excited to Celebrate the Future with Abounding Grace Ministries this weekend as they commemorate their 25th year as a church and 35th year as a community ministry. Everything Thrive Collective is, every student and school we have served, is because of Abounding Grace Ministries’ investment in Jeremy Del Rio personally and their commitment…
read moreVideo by Vladimir Goroshnikov (Facebook). Music by Finsta Bundy (Facebook/ Soundcloud). To celebrate the new school year, the BURTON flagship store in Soho sponsored an evening of creative expression and youth empowerment on September 7, 2017. Three organizations that create positive impact for the youth of New York City joined forces in an event about movement, marks of expression and…
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For the second year in a row, we were privileged to teach at the accredited NYCATA/UFT 2017 Artworks Conference. Thank you, NYCATA, for trusting us with the privilege of engaging some of our City’s best and brightest educators. MURAL MAKING: PUBLIC ART TRANSFORMING PUBLIC SCHOOLS Empower students to create public art murals that transform public schools…
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On Friday the Thirteenth (of October), we cut another ribbon — this time for the “I Am Harlem: Past, Present, Future” mural at Infinity Mennonite Church on the corner of 146th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. Students from Harlem Village Academies High School joined art director Aleathia Brown; our partners on this mural Felecia…
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