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With your support, Young Writers Association is able to provide opportunities for kids of all ages to play with words and share their voices with our community. Please help our hard-working, award-winning non-profit persevere! Your donation allows us to inspire and support our young people’s relationship with the spoken and written word. For your donation, you receive UpStarts, YWA’s literary publication of Lane County young people, as well as a discount card for 10% off at participating bookstores. And, unless you tell us not to, we will proudly acknowledge your support in UpStarts. We welcome any donation amount! Donate Now. For your gift of $35 or more you receive a YWA card that entitles you to a 10% discount at the following local bookstores: Donations to the Young Writers Association are tax deductible. If you donate an equal amount to the Oregon Cultural Trust, you will also receive a full dollar-for-dollar tax credit (of up to $500 for individuals, $1,000 for joint filers, and $2,500 for businesses) against your Oregon income tax liability. More information at www.culturaltrust.org
Bring YWA into more schools:
• $800 provides one school with a team of four artists/writers working with 120 school children for a literature based integrated arts day. • $150 buys a full day of age-appropriate creative writing explorations in a local school. • $1,000 brings a writer into a Lane County school for in-depth, ongoing writing labs; 20 hours of instruction Add to YWA’s scholarship fund for low-income families: • $244 buys a scholarship for YWA’s one-week summer literature camp. • $100 buys a scholarship for 12 hours of word-based play for the primary elementary age group. • $85 enrolls a child in eight weekly writing workshops. • $40 buys a child a scholarship for a YWA school-days-out program, which integrates creative writing with the exploration of science and art. Stir up literary play in our community: • $100 pays the honorarium for an author to lead an intergenerational workshop at our annual Glitterary Word Festival, a free event for families. • $100 pays the honorarium for an artist to produce multi-media word play for families at the Glitterary Word Festival, an event which recognizes our writing contest winners and engages families in creative word projects Help publish Lane County’s young authors: • $1,600 covers the cost of printing and distributing 4,000 copies of UpStarts, YWA’s publication of Lane County’s young writers.
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