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Founded in 1978, the Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center is a community-based organization that develops skills in a variety of art forms for children, teens and adults. It is a cultural institution that provides instruction in the area of performing arts for students. The institution provides instructive sessions for piano, violin, guitar, drums, flute, clarinet and keyboard. The Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center provides classes in disciplines, such as tap, ballet, adult yoga, West African salsa and dance fundamentals. It also offers training classes in productions by professional actors, directors, writers, composers, and choreographers. The center is located in Bronx, N.Y.

Established in 1969, Area Cooperative Educational Services is a regional educational service center for 25 school districts in south central Connecticut. Based in North Haven, Conn., the center focuses on improving public education through quality programs and services. It develops solutions to the needs of its member school districts and work with state officials and local educators. Area Cooperative Educational Services offers a range of services, such as vocational training for multichallenged adults, diagnosis of learning problems and create programs to overcome similar issues.