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Raising money for Digital Writing Center

We are starting up an exciting new program: The YWP Digital Writing Center at Champlain Mill (our new home). This space will serve small groups of students -- particularly "at risk" immigrant and low-income students in the surrounding area -- as well as college mentors, teachers and the community. This center will allow us to hold many small workshops, training and events that promote writing, expression and creative use of multimedia.

Our aim is to have a place that becomes an active, vibrant meeting place in which we bring in experts in all sorts of things -- digital storytelling, photography, videography, journalism, social action, visual art, visual design and, of course, wrting. Writing, writing, writing. We'd like to connect experienced young writers with peers who are less experienced or who recently moved here from foreign lands. We'd like to connect our online college mentors with students face-to-face and also help them hone their critical skills. We'd like to connect young writers with elders in the community. We'd like to bring in storytellers to give young writers some ideas.

For the first phase of this project -- to get it off the ground -- we have set a modest goal of $12,000 for computers, furniture and a bit of remodeling and to cover some of the professional fees for planned workshops so that we can offer scholarships to those students of need. We strongly believe that our services aimed at helping student improve their writing skills should be available to all.

If you would like to donate, if you want to know more about our program, or if you would consider giving us a large sponsorship, please contact us at this address:

Geoffrey Gevalt Young Writers Project Champlain Mill 20 Winooski Falls Way, Suite #4 Winooski, VT 05404 802-310-0642 ggevalt@youngwritersproject.org

We promise you that students, mentors, teachers and friends will not be disappointed with what we can offer and what kids produce because of your generosity. And stay tuned as details of our work get posted here. (Nice passive sentence, I agree.) Thanks so much. Geoff

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