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DONORS & GRANTS
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The immediate beneficiaries are the group of Mt. Pleasant High and ESUHD students and their families. Students, when empowered as writers, will realize their connection to the larger fabric of American society through their contributions of unique and invaluable works of literature. (Think of Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club) This project will broaden these students’ world, letting them know that their voices and those of their neighbors will be heard and valued. The project needs resources to cover future writer-in-residence fees and to establish a similar Writer-in-Residence program in at least one additional high school. The project also wishes to reward the best work produced by students with much needed college scholarships, which can alter the lives of these underprivileged student writers.
Why We Recommend Your Support
The project is currently partially funded by the Donor’s Circle for the Arts Fund of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation through December 2009. The CLA, working with ESUDH schools, continues to develop the project, preparing grant proposals, including a matching grant to the National Endowment for the Arts’ Challenge America: Reaching Every Community Fast-Track Review Grants. We are also preparing to apply for the NEA’s Learning in the Arts Project for Children and Youth and the Adobe Foundation’s Youth Voices Grant.
Current Support
- Community Foundation Silicon Valley Donor Circle of the Arts Grant ($2500)
- In-kind donations from San Jose State University English Department
What This Project Needs
- $1000 per year for minimal operating expenses and marketing (supplies, event promotions, event flyers)
- $1500 per project coordinator per academic year to support writer-in-residence with setting-up performances, scheduling interviews, and maintaining a database of all individuals interviewed
- $5000 per writer-in-residence per academic year for a minimum of eight interviews, a minimum of eight original works, and to teach two class sessions per month
- $3000 for the design and development of a website
- $1000 per year to maintain and incorporate new interviews, project progress reports and works by student writers to website
- $4000 to design, print and distribute 500 copies of an anthology of works by student writers
- $2500 for scholarships to five students at $500 each
Benefits to Sponsors
- Facilitation of artistic development in an underprivileged and underrepresented community.
- Promotion of the humanities as a way to bridge ethnically diverse groups.
- Leveraging scholarships as a first step toward higher education to a low income high school student population.
- Sponsor’s logo will be included on the East Side Voices Project website and all publications.
- Student writers will be available for readings and performances at sponsor’s events.
Fiscal Agent
- The fiscal agent for East Side Voices Project is San Jose State University Tower Foundation, a 501(c)(3).
Your support is crucial to the sucess of this project. To make a donation, please contact:
Alan Soldofsky [email], director of creative writing program
San Jose State University – MFA Department
(408) 924 -4432
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