The Berklee City Music All-Star Ensemble is composed of the best and brightest rising stars, all of whom have attended Berklee’s Five-Week Summer Performance Program on full-tuition scholarships. The ensemble performs multiple genres of contemporary music, including jazz, pop, hip-hop, and rhythm and blues.  They were a 2008 recipient of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities’ Coming Up Taller Award.

The Cloud Foundation, Youth Photographers
The Cloud Foundation believes in the transformative power of art to enrich the lives of urban youth. They support innovative programs that build confidence, ambition, and hope in Boston's young people through artistic creation and cross-cultural communication. The Cloud Foundation was created in 1999 by David and Aurèlie Edwards to promote mastery in the arts, cross-cultural communication, and the development of life skills for urban youth in the Boston area and worldwide.

Sociedad Latina, Youth Ambassadors
For over thirty years, in partnership with Latino youth, the mission of Sociedad Latina has been to enhance the overall health and wellbeing of the Latino community by delivering programs that encourage community leadership through educational attainment, cultural identity and continuation of traditions. Today their vital out-of-school time programs offer tutoring, academic enrichment tailored to literacy and math, youth development trainings, mentoring and safe social/recreational activities and services with the overall goal of helping even the most at-risk youth make healthy choices, graduate from high school and develop higher education goals.

Hyde Square Task Force, Youth Ambassadors
The Hyde Square Task Force seeks to build the skills of youth and their families through civic engagement, cultural celebration, and community organizing.  Their mission is to develop the skills of youth and their families so that they are empowered to enhance their own lives and build a strong and vibrant urban community.
 

Ritmo en Acción, Youth Performers     
Hyde Square Task Force’s Ritmo en Acción, is an award-winning dance troupe focusing on Afro-Latin and contemporary dance. Ritmo en Acción seeks to build the skills of youth while giving them the opportunity for self-expression and cultural celebration.  Ritmo’s 15 core teen dancers are trained as dance performers, instructors, and cultural stewards.  They were a 2007 recipient of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities’ Coming Up Taller Award.

Zumix, Youth Musicians
ZUMIX programs inspire young people to explore the arts, particularly music, as a means of self-expression. They are dedicated to building community through music and the arts. ZUMIX provides top-quality cultural programming as an alternative way for young people to deal with frustration, anger and fear, and as a method of building cultural understanding and acceptance in one of Boston's most diverse neighborhoods.

MYTOWN, Youth Ambassadors
MYTOWN’s (Multicultural Youth Tour of What's Now) mission is to use the process of sharing local history to empower young people and build appreciation of urban neighborhoods.  Since 1995, MYTOWN has trained and employed over 250 low and moderate-income Boston teens in their youth development program where they have learned about the history of their families, neighborhoods, and city and developed skills to create and lead historical walking tours and presentations for nearly 12,000 Boston residents and visitors.   MYTOWN believes that young people and communities can realize the power local history has in increasing youth activism and decreasing the stereotypes that stigmatize urban neighborhoods.