Gateway to the Arts encourages students interest and participation in the arts and encourages learning through school performances of high quality, arts-infused curriculums, and teacher and artist training. Its mission is to educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, understand business and economics in order to improve the quality of their lives. JA offers a comprehensive K-12 curriculum that focuses on business, the economy, and showing children the relevance of education to the workplace. Over 75,000 area youth participate from a 38-county region. La Roche College Performing Arts Conservatory provides children and young adults with the opportunity to study the artform of dance.
Classes range from basic creative movement through advanced levels of dance.
The National Conference for Community and Justice exists to fight bias, bigotry, and racism in America by offering training in the area of prejudice reduction to adults and students. Northern Area Gifted Consortium serves gifted students in grades 6-12 from thirteen districts in Allegheny County north of the Allegheny River. Pennsylvania Peace Links strives for global security by encouraging peaceful alternatives to war and by seeking to assure for future generations a just and environmentally sound world. Phipps Conservatory Offers school programs and classes for children. The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts provides year-round exhibitions of contemporary art, classes for all ages and sales of artists work.