HOW WE WORK
From donor to project completion, every step of our process is carefully considered.
WE STRIVE TO BE EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT.
Your donation is quickly deployed to support Opus 1 Foundation's programs & projects where additional funds can have an immediate impact.
Our 4-Step Process
1
Curate
Strategically launch programs & projects in coordination with our team of experts across the United States and abroad.
3
Measure
Using program and financial expertise, evaluate project outcomes.
Compile data to analyze impact and measure progress.
2
Invest
Channel funds to curated programs & projects vetted by the our team and executed by its staff, partners & volunteers.
4
SHARE
Reflect on data analysis and communicate our collective results, successes, and challenges with you, our partners.
OUR FOCUS AREAS
We focus on the areas where our work can have the most impact.
Current donations and gifts are contributing to the below projects & their respective goals:
EVERYONE IS AN ARTIST
ARTS & CULTURE • FAIR EMPLOYMENT • EQUAL EDUCATION
Opus 1 Foundation delivers new works of performance art inspired by the unique gifts of artists with special conditions.
We work together in collaboration with top-tier artists to:
• Promote Fair & Equal Opportunities for All Artists.
Individuals and ensembles with chronic illness & physical disabilities represent less than 1% of all arts & culture programming around the world each year. This is a problem. This must change.
• Strengthen Our Global [Cultural] Economy.
Increased engagement of the physically-challenged translates to more jobs and greater participation in our local & global economies.
• Advance Art Forms & Expression.
Few major works of performance art have been crafted with artists of special conditions in mind. By contributing to the repertoire of staged work, the expansion of human creative expression via the arts enriches our present and future society.
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EDUCATION • ARTS & CULTURE • COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT • SUSTAINABILITY
We are working with our partners & members of the Kenyan Government in acquiring property for the construction of a Youth Education & Cultural Center in Nairobi. Many children attend schools everyday in facilities which do not have electricity, running water, or solid infrastructures. Schools, as in any community or country, not only are a place of learning & growth; but a safe haven for children to let their minds and creativity soar.
The St. John's School in Korogocho, one of the locations of the Ghetto Classics program, is located next to one of the largest chemical & waste landfills in Nairobi. The children who flock to this school for daily lessons in math, geography, science, english and the arts are exposed to the harmful air pollutants and toxins coming from the site. Many, as a result of over-exposure to these chemicals, have developed mild to severe respiratory health issues and diseases.
Opus 1 believes that every child & young adult should have the opportunity to educate themselves in an environment which is safe and secure. We've made it our project's top priority to draw the resources needed to facilite the construction of a new, modern education & cultural center where underprivileged youth living within Nairobi could gather and obtain the tools for building a successful & brighter future.
EDUCATION • ARTS & CULTURE
Since 2016, Opus 1 Foundation has partnered with the Art of Music Kenya Foundation in the development and support of its flagship program, Ghetto Classics. Ghetto Classics is an arts education program servicing over 3,000 underprivileged children and youth across Kenya. Opus 1 Foundation's focus within the program is the informal settlement of Korogocho: a deeply impoverished community situated next to one of Africa's largest dumpsites, the Dandora Landfill, and home to some 400,000 urban poor.
The program utilizes music, dance and theater education to provide underserved youth with opportunities to better themselves and, in turn, their communities. Through lessons linked by with the study of the arts, the program strives to nurture the leaders and innovators of tomorrow.
