These grants, along with volunteers and your donations, help make YWA possible!

2011

• YWA received a gift of $1000 from U.S. Bancorp Foundation for its Writers in Lane County Schools program.
  
  
• Oregon Poet Laureate Paulann Petersen will spend several days with YWA for the Glitteray Word Festival 2011. The poet laureate position is a collaborative project of the state's five statewide cultural partners, Oregon Arts Commission, Oregon Heritage Commission, Oregon Historical Society, Oregon Humanities and State Historic Preservation Office. The position is funded by the Oregon Cultural Trust and managed by Oregon Humanities. More information on the poet laureate program and history is found at http://www.oregonpoetlaureate.org/.
  
  
• Thanks to the Oregon Arts Commission, YWA board president Catherine Ballard with YWA director Louisa Lindsay-Sprouse are participating in SUSTAINING OREGON ARTS. Approximately thirty arts leader cohorts in the Willamette Valley, facilitated by Rural Development Initiatives, explore building capacity in our arts organizations. Topics are board internal/external transitions, sustainable funding, governance, and leveraging collective assets.
  
  

2010

• Community Arts Grants (through Lane Arts Council) $1650 for UpStarts and $1000 for Glitterary Word Festival
• Herbert Templeton Foundation $4,000 for Writers in Lane County Schools (WILCS)
• Lane County Cultural Coalition $3,000 for WILCS
• Target $2000 for WILCS
• Oregon Arts Commission Arts Recognition Grant (from OAC and NEA). $1000 to help support the cost of printing YWA's next UpStarts anthology, DRAWN TO THE WORD. www.oregonartscommission.org , www.nea.gov