Partner With Us
Why partner with us?
Our partners gain a unique set of value-added services honed over 12 years in direct application. We specialize in supporting young people, girls and women through mental health and psychosocial arts engagement, public mural making, and community building in conflict and post conflict areas.
Project Partners
What we offer
Our team brings a broad set of expertise so that our partners can effectively support young people and adolescent girls in some of the most challenging environments.
Innovative and easily replicable creative activities for youth
Designed for low-resource environments, activities mitigate trauma and promote mental health and wellbeing. Activities include drawing, theater, music dance, public murals and more.
Evidence-based tools and best practices for girl-centered programming
including building-assets, program design, community resource and risk mapping, community surveying to understand girls’ risks by age, and gender-based violence case management.
Community public art and engagement
Amplifying young people’s participation in social norms change and social cohesion.
Knowledge sharing with local partners in a cascading leadership model
Our programming is informed by the lived experiences of the people within the community, and encourages co-leadership opportunities amongst partners.
Arts-based survivor support
Trauma-informed arts activities that create safe spaces and facilitate trauma processing, emotional expression, and positive relationship formation.
Working with Colors of Connection as a local partner, has been and remains for a great experience, very interesting in the cultural sector. We have realized an extraordinary project in my community with the girls and the mentors. We have learned a lot from the staff of Colors of Connection especially in capacity building with our team and for me personally on the side of fundraising research and networking.
Pamela Tulizo,
Coordinator
Tulizo Elle Space, DRC
“Colors of Connection is doing important work with adolescent girls and young women in conflict-affected communities, such as in the DRC, by providing safe spaces and supportive environments in which young women can build self-confidence and leadership skills as well as expand peer networks by developing their own artistic skills and collaborating with other young women on a community-based art project of their own making and design.”
Elizabeth Graybill
Former Women’s Protection and Empowerment Program Staff
International Rescue Committee, DRC
“The work that CC is doing is greatly needed in situations where people are affected by conflict and the physical and psychological hardships it causes. Bringing conflict-affected youth together through art can have a very positive and transformative effect, and CC has proven this through its work.”
John M. Steed,
Former Head of Mission
IEDA-Relief, Burkina Faso
Learn more on what we can accomplish together
Brand Partners
Our Value Proposition
We are invested in improving the lives of young people in some of the most challenging places through improved mental health, equality and social cohesion.
When partnering with Colors of Connection, you gain the effective impact of engaging expressive arts for healing and building community with your customer-base. Our evidence-based programming contributes to creating a more peaceful and prosperous future for the participants. Together, we can help you incorporate this impact into your brand and develop a partnership tailored to your company’s needs.
Did you know?
More than nine in ten millennials would switch brands to one associated with a cause according to a study by Berkley Haas.
Over 12 years, brands with high sense of purpose increase valuation of 175% vs. only 70% for brands with low sense of purpose according to Kantar Consulting’s new Purpose 2020 report.
81% of millennials expect their favorite companies to make public declarations of their corporate citizenship according to Horizon’s Finger on the Pulse report.
Americans feel a stronger emotional connection to (77%), are proud to be associated with (70%), and are more willing to forgive a misstep (67%) for purpose-driven brands according to research by Cone.
Health & Wellness
1. Yoga & fitness
2. Meditation & mental wellness
3. Publishers & content creators
Three types of brand partnerships that fit well with our priority areas
Arts & DIY
1. Paint & art supply
2. Hardware & home improvement
3. Museums & galleries
4. Camera/travel arts
Beauty & Empowerment
1. Feminine care/hygiene products
2. Makeup & skincare
3. Fashion & clothing
What does a brand partnership with Colors of Connection look like?
We will work with you to customize your partnership to optimize the benefits for, your employees your customers, and your brand,
A few ways businesses can leverage their resources to support young people to heal and rebuild their communities after conflict include but are not limited to in-kind, financial (see below), operations and administrative support.
Financial Support options
Corporate Giving Includes direct funding, gifts-in-kind, or cause marketing.
Workplace Giving Engage your employees in giving and fundraising for the cause.
Matching Gifts Set up a matching gift program so that funds raised by employees are matched by you, the employer.
Our partners join us in aligning with the
UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
We align our activities with the larger guiding framework of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) As an organization that works specifically in low-income conflict-affected countries, we are helping achieve the United Nations’ SDG 2030 agenda adding value to the sector in which we work.
Current & Past Partners
