This gift will engage one child in the pleasure and power of reading and writing for the whole school year. Your support will provide a required match to send a professional poet, novelist, essayist, or playwright into a low-income school or underserved community center to help a child develop strong writing, thinking, and speaking skills to prepare them for a challenging world.

This gift will provide student anthologies to an entire classroom. Students will gain confidence seeing their poems and essays in a published body of work.

This gift will provide one scholarship for a low-income child. The Summer Creative Writing Workshops offer a supportive environment where children engage in writing stories, poetry, essays, and plays, as well as simply reading for pleasure. Through these activities even the most hesitant child discovers the joy in writing, the intrigue of language, and the confidence of authorship. Students will work with teachers and writers,...

This gift will provide a required match for classroom anthologies for two students. WITS anthologies showcase the original stories and poems of children written over during a yearlong program that develops strong writing, thinking, and speaking skills to prepare children for a challenging world.

This gift will enable three students to take a field trip to a cultural venue where they will use art or nature to inspire and enhance their writing. Your support will provide a required match for a field trip as part of a full-year program that engages children in the pleasure and power of reading and writing. Students will learn through direct experience about the...

This will provide a high school aged youth with a backpack full of school supplies. These supplies will include 3 ring binders, pencils, pens, paper, notebooks, notecards, calculator, dictionary, ruler, erasers, highlighters, weekly school planner and backpack.

This gift will provide a SAT, PSAT or CAHSEE prep book and instruction for every student in a class of 20.