Agency Details:

Urban Fusion

Urban Fusion strives to positively effect and enrich the lives of young people, instilling confidence and life skills to help them achieve their highest potential as active and capable community members through a professionally supported Fine Arts program.

In addition to a disciplined environment and goals to work toward, Urban Fusion endeavors to provide guidance through the example of committed volunteers, professional leadership and an unparalleled standard of excellence.

Description:
First and foremost, we center on providing a positive, character building environment, bringing together children from all backgrounds. While we focus on instilling traits such as teamwork, self-discipline, personal growth, and respect. We also strive to give each child an experience they can benefit from well after leaving our program. We do this within a “Musical Arts” environment.

History:
Urban Fusion, originally operated out of a basement of a church, was originally founded in 2003 as the New Bedford Community Drumline. It was created to provide an alternative means to the streets.

Witnessing the immediate success of the program prompted a in-depth search to restructure the program to provide youth with deeper "life-experiences" which resulted in the formal organization of "Urban Fusion" as a youth development organization.

It was in 2005 that "Urban Fusion" was formally organized as a Federal 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization.

Today Urban Fusion has come to earn the respect of major sponsorship such as: The D'Addario Foundation for the Performing Arts, SABIAN, Pearl Drums, United way of Greater New Bedford to same just a few.

Please visit our website for more information:

www.urbanfusiononline.org

Contact person: Michael Valler, Executive Director, (phone), (email)

Address:

70 Highland Street New Bedford, MA 02740 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.urbanfusiononline.org

Last updated on April 4, 2009