Every performance at the Art of Fitness Charity Showcase is an opportunity to move with purpose and create meaningful change.
This year, our giving model reflects both collective impact and personal connection. While our Board of Directors selects primary beneficiary organizations that align with the Art of Fitness Mental Health Matrix, every performer also has the opportunity to dedicate their performance to a nonprofit organization that has personally impacted their life or reflects a cause they deeply care about.
Together, these organizations remind us that mental health is influenced by far more than clinical care alone. It is shaped by our relationships, our safety, our communities, our identities, and the systems that surround us.
Our Mental Health Matrix
We believe mental health is influenced by a spectrum of factors. Our giving priorities are organized across four key categories:
Basic Needs – Access to essentials like housing, food, safety, and healthcare
Identity & Social Pressures – Challenges related to belonging, stigma, discrimination, and societal expectations
Specific Mental Health Challenges – Direct support for conditions such as anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction
Systemic Barriers – Structural inequities that limit access to care and well-being
The organizations we support often span multiple categories—because real-world impact rarely fits into just one box.
Board Organizations Under Consideration
The board is currently in the process of reviewing a group of nominated organizations. The charities below represent the types of impact we aim to support, spanning multiple dimensions of mental health.
Please note: These organizations are not yet finalized beneficiaries. Final selections are pending board review.
The Providence Center
A leading provider of behavioral health services in Rhode Island, The Providence Center offers comprehensive care for individuals facing mental health challenges, addiction, and trauma. Their programs range from outpatient counseling to crisis stabilization and supportive housing.
Matrix Alignment:
- Basic Needs
- Specific Mental Health Challenges
- Systemic Barriers
American Farmland Trust
American Farmland Trust works to protect farmland, promote sustainable agriculture, and support farmers. While not a traditional mental health organization, their work contributes to community stability, environmental health, and food security—all foundational to mental well-being.
Matrix Alignment:
- Basic Needs
- Systemic Barriers
Corporate Accountability International
Corporate Accountability International works to challenge harmful corporate practices that impact public health, particularly in areas like food systems, water access, environmental justice, and corporate influence over health policy.
Matrix Alignment:
- Systemic Barriers
- Basic Needs
Our Sisters’ School
Our Sisters’ School is a tuition-free independent middle school serving girls from under-resourced communities in New Bedford. The school focuses on academic growth, leadership development, confidence, and long-term opportunity for young students.
Matrix Alignment:
- Identity & Social Pressures
- Systemic Barriers
- Basic Needs
World Without Exploitation
World Without Exploitation is a coalition working to end human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation through advocacy, survivor support, public education, and policy reform.
Matrix Alignment:
- Basic Needs
- Identity & Social Pressures
- Specific Mental Health Challenges
- Systemic Barriers
Performer Selected Organizations
Protects farmland and promotes sustainable agriculture to strengthen local food systems and healthy communities.
Leading the fight against suicide through research, education, advocacy and support for those affected by suicide.
Promotes mental wellness and access to culturally responsive mental health resources for Black girls and young women.
Provides comprehensive behavioral health, family support, crisis intervention, and community-based services that help children, adults, and families in Southeastern MA.
Serves Bristol County, Massachusetts by providing housing, food, education, employment, and family support programs that help individuals and families overcome poverty and build long-term stability.
Expands southeastern MA’s access to fresh, locally produced food while supporting regional farmers and sustainable agriculture by connecting local farms with communities.
Protects public health, human rights, and the environment by calling for systemic policy changes and holding corporations accountable for practices that affect communities around the world.
Works to end the commercial sexual exploitation of children by empowering survivors, educating youth and professionals, and advocating for systemic change through prevention programs, mentoring, training, and public policy initiatives that protect vulnerable young people.
NAMI provides free education, support groups, advocacy, and public awareness programs that empower individuals and families affected by mental illness while working to reduce stigma and improve access to quality mental health care.
Serves individuals affected by domestic violence with crisis intervention, violence prevention, life transition, and self-sufficiency opportunities, while promoting behavioral and systemic changes to reduce violence at the individual and community levels.
Empowers middle school girls from underserved communities in Providence, Rhode Island with a tuition-free, independent education focused on academic excellence, and leadership development.
Provides comprehensive behavioral health care for children, adults, and families throughout Rhode Island, offering outpatient counseling, addiction treatment, crisis intervention, supportive housing, and recovery services that help individuals achieve lasting mental wellness and independence.
Empowers survivors of domestic violence in southeastern Massachusetts through emergency shelter, crisis intervention, counseling, legal advocacy, prevention education, and community outreach, helping individuals and families achieve safety, healing, and long-term independence.
The leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ young people, providing free, confidential crisis services, peer support, education, advocacy, and research to create safer, more affirming communities where every young person can thrive.
Presents hope and connects people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide to treatment and recovery resources through storytelling, education, advocacy, and community support, reminding individuals that they are not alone.
Provides specialized outpatient treatment for individuals experiencing pregnancy-related and postpartum depression, anxiety, and other perinatal mood disorders, offering comprehensive psychiatric care, therapy, and support to help parents recover while strengthening family well-being.
Works to end human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation through survivor-centered advocacy, public education, coalition building, and policy reform, creating systemic change that protects vulnerable individuals and promotes dignity, safety, and human rights for all.
