Individual Donor Letter
The Time In Children's Arts Initiative
The Time In Children's Arts Initiative
0
12
Individual Donor Letter
Project details
What we need
- A concise, well-articulated letter (not exceeding two pages) to request funds from individual donors
Additional details
Our organization has been in existence for 12 years now and we are looking for a way to keep our longtime donors engaged and reinvigorate lapsed donors. We need something brand and mission-aligned but new enough to spark interest and fight against donor fatigue. We are hoping to tie into the political moment and make really evident how the work we are doing connects with a larger push for social justice.
What we have in place
- We currently have constant contact lists, writing ideas and drafts, which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have email templates that we have used in the past and writing about the organization, and the ability to provide any other information you need.
How this will help
This project will save us $2,140 , allowing us to spend more time planning lessons and trips for the students we work with to give them the best program possible.
We are an organization that serves 600 kids with only two full time staff members who are in charge of foundational and individual giving, communications, operations, and being on site during classes three-four days a week. We are seeking someone to help us create a letter to reach out to our individual donors and secure donations so that we can really focus on the program for our students while ensuring the sustainability of the organization. We need funding to maintain our 5:1 student teacher ratio and bring the best arts materials into Title I schools.
Project plan
Posted by
Cyndie B.
Founder & Executive Director
Our mission
The Time In Children's Arts Initiative will transform the lives and learning of chronically disadvantaged public school children, ensuring that equality, opportunity and access - to the arts and through the arts - become staples of public education.
What we do
The Time In Children's Arts Initiative has worked, since 2006, to transform the lives and learning of New York City's youngest and most at-risk public school children. An awardee of the renowned Maxine Greene Foundation for its groundbreaking work in arts-education, supported by the New York Community Trust and The Catalog for Giving, Time In's tripartite aesthetic, intellectual and social-emotional programming - provides a powerful antidote to the debilitating inequities that children living in high-risk, chronically impoverished communities struggle with daily. An ongoing part of the normal school day for hundreds of New York's most disadvantaged public elementary school children TimeIn recreates the Best of NY, HiArt! program, which for 20 years has served the children of some of the world's most privileged families -- from David Bowie and Hugh Jackman to Rupert Murdoch and Mort Zuckerman - as well as in residencies at The Hollingworth Center for Gifted Education (Teacher's College), and the Speyer Legacy School for exceptionally gifted children.
Beginning with 30 kindergarteners from Harlem's failing Family Academy in 2006, TimeIn was founded on the belief that life-long learners and leaders emerge not from punitive time outs, but from effective participation in the real world. Every child, regardless of socio-economic background is entitled to a thoughtfully crafted, arts-enriched education in which each individual child's talents and needs are recognized, and the support for greater creativity, intelligence, self-esteem and a brighter, better future is more than just a promise.
