You Can Help

You can help the D.C. Creative Writing Workshop further its mission of transforming the lives of at-risk youth through the joy of self-expression and the power of the written word!

Thanks to the generosity of people like you, the D.C. Creative Writing Workshop was able to expand its programs to Simon Elementary and Ballou High Schools. And with your help, we can continue to offer our award-winning programs to at-risk children throughout their school careers.

According to the National Education Association, students who participate in the arts outperform those who don’t on virtually every measure. In fact, students who study the arts score, on average, 40 to 60 points higher on the verbal portion of the SAT and 15 to 40 points higher on the math portion. However, students in the struggling Congress Heights neighborhood have little access to the arts. In fact, the D.C. Creative Writing Workshop offers the only intensive literary and dramatic arts programs in the area. Please help us continue to give these children what every child deserves: an education that prepares them not just to survive, but to flourish.

To make a tax deductible contribution online, just click on the Donate Now button to your right.

A donation of $50 will provide snacks for our students at our afterschool program.

A donation of $100 will sponsor our students to participate in a local poetry reading at one of our featured venues.

A donation of $500 will supply a stipend for a Young Writer-in-residence for the upcoming school year.

A donation of $1000 will afford us the opportunity to take our students to a performance at a local theater such as Arena Stage, Wooley Mammoth Theater, or the Shakespeare Theater.

A donation of $1500 will cover the production cost for one entire issue of Simon Says, hArtworks, or Voice of the Knights.

You can also send a check to:

D.C. Creative Writing Workshop
6155 Fuller Ct. #2
Alexandria, VA 22310

We work hard to keep our administrative expenses low, so that every dollar of your tax-deductible contribution goes directly toward our writing programs for at-risk youth. In 2005, for example, administrative expenses accounted for only 2.5% of our budget.

As a benefit of donating over $25, supporters will receive a free copy of hArtworks. hArtworks is featured in the 2006 "Poet’s Market" as “an outstanding example of what a literary journal can be (for anyone of any age).”

We receive financial help from individual donors, corporate sponsors, local and national government, and foundations. To see some of those who help us, see Supporters.

Please remember us in your workplace giving campaign. Our CFC# is 70375.

Volunteer

At DCCWW we can always use assistance from the community in implementing our work. Whether it be through ongoing assistance in our after-school program helping students edit their work, designing an e-newsletter during the work day, planning a one time Literary Salon/Poetry Reading for our students on the weekend, or chaperoning a trip to the theater, there are dozens of ways that volunteers may become involved with DCCWW. Just email Nancy Schwalb, Artistic Director for more information on how you may become a part of the work that we do!