Since abandoning learntoseeart back in November, so much Free Minds news has occurred it will hard to summarize it all. Here goes my best effort:
Through a Free Minds community sing-a-long with a Silver Spring community group, I reunited with one of my most favorite and talented students. He is back in the city and doing extremely well, finishing his high school diploma and working for a marketing company.
Through a Free Minds community sing-a-long with a Silver Spring community group, I reunited with one of my most favorite and talented students. He is back in the city and doing extremely well, finishing his high school diploma and working for a marketing company.
We had an amazing turnout for our November Write Night, such a big turn out in fact, we are starting to look for other venues to hold all of our amazing volunteers. I love seeing our dedicated fans who come every single month as well as brand new supporters. It is unbelievable the community we have built.
After Write Night, one of our volunteers, Marie LeBlanc, wrote a blog post for the Catalogue for Philanthropy describing her experience. You can read it by clicking here.
In December, we were featured in the Washington Post (click here) and Tara Libert, the executive director, co-founder, and fearless leader of Free Minds won the prestigious Linowes Leadership Award from the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region!! Tara is such an amazing leader and is totally deserving of this award that goes to "unsung heroes" who are actively making an impact through their leadership courage and commitment. Congrats!
Lastly, Campaign for Youth Justice threw a holiday party/book drive to benefit Free Minds. Our goal was to reach $2500 and by the end of the night, we had reached and exceeded our goal!! It was a great event. I attended and spread the good word by collecting volunteer info and selling literary journals.
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| Taken from Facebook, photo credits to Capital Media USA |
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