Our Advocating for Creativity & Connection in Schools program brings that vision into classrooms, helping students and teachers experience creativity as something deeply human — and deeply needed.

Program Purpose

The Creative Humanity Alliance (CHA) partners with schools to help students and teachers use creativity as a tool for empathy, collaboration, and community connection. Through art, performance, and storytelling, participants learn that creativity isn’t just expression — it’s how people remember their shared humanity.

These school-based programs invite students to discover that every creative act — a song, a script, a drawing, a gesture — can be a bridge between people who might never have met otherwise.

What We Do

1. The Voices of Connection Campaign

A regional network of student-led peer campaigns where art becomes advocacy. Students design, fund, and stage creative projects — from performances to exhibits — that explore themes of empathy and understanding. Each campaign is hosted securely through CHA’s Donorbox system, making every contribution tax-deductible and directly tied to creative learning outcomes.

2. From Conflict to Connection

A participatory theatre program that helps students flip everyday arguments into lessons about empathy. Through guided performance and reflection, young people practice creative communication and emotional awareness — skills that serve them far beyond the stage.  You can see it here. (You'll need to register an account to download it.)

3. The Choreography of Connection

A multidisciplinary collaboration across music, movement, and storytelling that brings history to life through the lens of unity. Students and faculty from art, dance, theatre, and humanities departments work together to stage immersive performances that explore how creativity helps us “remember what never broke.”. 

How It Works

Each participating school:

1. Forms a creative team of students and teachers.
2. Chooses a project focus — theatre, music, dance, or visual storytelling.
3. Launches a Voices of Connection peer campaign to fund and share their work.
4. Stages the project and reflects on its impact through short interviews, photos, or creative artifacts.

CHA provides:

• Facilitation and creative training guides.
• Donorbox setup, fiscal sponsorship, and tax-deductible processing.
• Recognition through certificates, digital badges, and regional features.
• Access to our Peer Campaign Toolkit for storytelling, fundraising, and impact reporting.

Program Goals

• Empathy: Help students understand themselves and others through creative expression.
• Collaboration: Strengthen bonds between teachers, students, and communities.
• Agency: Empower young people to lead creative projects that reflect their own voices.
• Sustainability: Keep arts-based learning visible and viable within education systems.
• Connection: Remind us all that creativity is not a luxury — it’s how we stay human together.

Who It’s For

• Schools & Teachers who believe creativity belongs at the heart of learning.
• Students eager to explore leadership through artistic collaboration.
• Communities & Families who want to see art bring people together.
• Supporters & Funders who recognize the arts as an engine for social connection.

In Closing

When a student picks up a paintbrush, a script, or a piece of music, they’re not just learning technique — they’re learning how to listen, how to express, and how to belong.

That’s what this work is really about. Each creative act becomes a reminder that empathy can be taught, that connection can be practiced, and that the arts still hold the power to bring us back to one another.

The Creative Humanity Alliance exists to make that possible — one classroom, one story, one shared act of creation at a time.

How to Get Involved

• For Teachers: Access the Peer Campaign Toolkit → COMING SOON
• For Supporters: Sponsor a School Project →
  

“When students create for empathy, they begin to see the world — and each other — differently.”

For Schools: Request a Partnership Conversation