Dreams Can Be Foundation - Dance & Theater Company: Alternatives to Drugs

Address

Dreams Can Be Foundation
Dreams Can Be Foundation 945 Menoher Blvd.
Johnstown, PA 15905
United States
(814) 255-4379
http://www.dreamscanbe.org/

Mission

DCBF is a US 501 c3 nonprofit charitable supporting organization and a Brazilian NGO dedicated to aiding street children and impoverished youth in Brazil. We work in partnership with local organizations and NGO's to provide: education, moral and social development, humanitarian relief, and the offering of opportunities where there were none before.

Programs

Luta Pela Paz - Fight for Peace Sports Club (with NGO Viva Rio); Nós do Cinema - We in Cinema; Pequeno Tigre Circus School (with Porto da Pedra Escola do Samba); Crescer e Viver (Grow Up and Live); Final Feliz - Happy Ending; Instituto de Ecocidadania Juriti - IEJ-Meio ambiente e Cidadania (Institute of Eco-Citizenship - Environment and Citizenship); Circo Baixada; and many more.

Dreams Can Be Foundation's Funded Projects on GlobalGiving

Fight for Peace Sports & Education Centre
Fight for Peace Sports & Education Centre 		Music Transforming Lives
Music Transforming Lives 		Happy Ending Childrens Project in Rio de Janeiro
Happy Ending Childrens Project in Rio de Janeiro 		Building a School for Early Child Literacy
Building a School for Early Child Literacy
Off the Streets and Back in School to Stay in Rio
Off the Streets and Back in School to Stay in Rio 		Dance & Theater Company: Alternatives to Drugs
Dance & Theater Company: Alternatives to Drugs 		Alternatives to Violence for Rio Street Child
Alternatives to Violence for Rio Street Child 		Fight for Peace Sports and Education Centre
Fight for Peace Sports and Education Centre
Free Heart Surgeries for Rio's Poor Children
Free Heart Surgeries for Rio's Poor Children 		100 Needy Kids off the Street and Productive
100 Needy Kids off the Street and Productive 		Income-Generation Skills for Battered Mothers
Income-Generation Skills for Battered Mothers

Personnel Overview

Carmen Luz - Director
Carmen Luz is an actress, ballerina, director, filmmaker, and choreographer, with more than 30 years of experience in the performance arts. She was born in Rio de Janeiro, and founded the Compania Étnica Dance & Theater Company in 1994. She has devoted over ten years of her life to the community of Andaraí, working in the areas of social assistance, arts and helping youths escape a life of crime.

Personnel Statistics

Lisa Marie Urgo, Founder and President
Founded in 2000
Employees: 5
Volunteers: 4

Financial Statistics

Budget (2006): 250,000
Budget (2005): 241,000
Maximum Budget: 241,000
Overhead: 13%
Other funding sources: board of directors pays overhead, individual donors and benefits support projects, and we also write proposals to funders for the projects. Our financials http://www.dreamscanbe.org/view/218#auditors
Religious Affiliation: None