Sing for Hope

Sing for Hope's education program provides dynamic arts classes, workshops, and standards-based initiatives that inspire positive action and uplift youth, educators, and communities. The program is centered on the organization's signature sustainable development goals (sdg) arts curriculum, its creative-service-learning curriculum that uses the arts to drive awareness and action for the united nations sustainable development goals, seventeen interlinked objectives adopted by the un in 2020 to serve as "a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet." The organization's sdg arts curriculum is delivered in partnership with new york city department of education schools, amani Sing for Hope public charter school, select international pilot campuses, and (starting in fy24/fy25) Sing for Hope school clubs, the organization's school-based replication vehicle for local ownership and innovation.

From the bronx to beirut, the Sing for Hope pianos program is a global arts initiative that creates artit-designed pianos; places them in public spaces for anyone and everyone to enjoy; then transports and activates them year-round in permanent homes in schools, hospitals, transit hubs, refugee camps, and community-based organizations. The organization has provided more pianos for under-resourced public schools than any other organization in the world.

Sing for Hope's public health and wellbeing program produces research-based creative interventions, performances, and curated cultural experiences that promote wellness and connection in healthcare centers, long-term care facilities, treatment centers, and public spaces. The organization's programs encompass both in-person and virtual arts experiences, and are designed to affect systems change and benefit individuals, organizations, and communities.

Sing for Hope's cultural diplomacy program provides creative advocacy, leadership, and program design that drive the integration of the arts in policy, peace-building, and global convenings on social change. In addition to curating the first-ever arts panel at the skoll world forum for social entrepreneurship at oxford university in 2013, the organization has presented cultural diplomacy programming for organizations including aspen ideas festival, harvard university, the fletcher school at tufts university, the kennedy center, and the united nations, where the organization has partnered with unicef and the high-level political forum since 2020. The organization is the official cultural partner of the world summit of nobel peace laureates. Sing for Hope's creative workforce development program is its signature "power source" that courses through all of its programming, developing and directing cultural workers to build happier, healthier communities locally and globally. The program trains and supports artists as creative placemakers in their communities, delivering increased connection, wellbeing, safety, and economic development. The organization's creative workforce development reframes the value proposition of the arts for the post-pandemic era with innovative public-private partnerships that extend our creative industry beyond traditional theatrical and museum models. Working with individuals and groups, the organization's creative workforce development program benefits multiple stakeholders and provides system-wide impact.