To donate, go to: http://www.montereycountygives.com/
Alisal Center for the Fine Arts
Year Founded: 1986
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 8 paid, 24 volunteers
Budget: $145,000
758-5715
www.alisalcenterforthefinearts.org
The Big Idea: Alisal Center for the Fine Arts provides free arts instruction to youth and free community events – safe and healthy alternatives to the violence and gang activity that surround the streets in the Alisal neighborhood. It wants to helps kids and teens paint themselves a better future. Literally. Its visual arts program alone serves 45 each week. The nonprofit needs community support for its individual mentorship and art instruction, which are vehicles to academic, professional, artistic and personal prosperity for Monterey County youth.
Young Artists in Residence: “Thanks to the services of ACFA, today I know more about myself and am being introduced to my chosen profession as an artist.”
– Josue Rubio
Bay View Academy
Year Founded: 2010
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 30 paid, 318 volunteers
Budget: $2,066,052
717-4630
The Big Idea: Good schools attract a skilled workforce and keep families living in Monterey, Seaside and Marina. This is where Bay View Academy fits in. The school, now in its third year, teaches kids math, science, reading and social studies, as well as Spanish, art, music and physical education. This instruction isn’t supported by the state per-student funding the academy receives as a public school, so to educate the whole child according to the BVA philosophy the school has to raise additional money. The County Office of Education has approved BVA’s charter grant to extend the school to eighth grade, but the school can’t thrive without financial support. Donors keep the school’s doors open and help ensure students’ future success.
School Ties: “We’re inspired by the dedication of this community school and thrilled to be a part.”
– Karen and Paul Warfield, Monterey
Boys and Girls Clubs of Monterey County
Year Founded: 1968
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 95 paid, 229 volunteers
Budget: $4,205,407
394-5171
The Big Idea: The Book Buddy Mentor program, which pairs first graders who are not reading at grade level with volunteer mentors, is a key component of the club-wide Literacy Initiative. One-on-one weekly sessions with Book Buddy mentors help the youngsters develop grade-level reading and writing skills like phonemic awareness, vocabulary, sentence structure and writing development – and gain self-confidence as they achieve academic success. Additional funding means more kids get the individual attention they need and learn to love reading and learning.
My Buddy: “Juan was the best book buddy! The other members wished he was their book buddy. He helped me get better at reading.”
– Anthony Z. about his mentor and book buddy Juan A.
Chartwell School
Year Founded: 1983
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 32 paid, 100 volunteers
Budget: $3,213,966
394-3468
The Big Idea: Some 15 to 20 percent of the population has language-related learning differences such as dyslexia, according to Chartwell School, which provides diagnostic education to students with specific learning variations. Without effective intervention, between 30 to 50 percent of these students are at risk of dropping out – and the downward spiral that comes with low literacy and education levels such as poverty, drugs, crime and jail. Chartwell’s big idea is that students with dyslexia and other physically based, language-related learning challenges can, with the proper education and support, negotiate their learning gaps to find strengths in their differences. While dyslexic thinkers face challenges with reading, writing and/or other language-processing tasks, many of them are gifted in math, science, visual-spatial thinking, creative problem solving, arts, entrepreneurship and other areas. All classes at Chartwell School and the New High School Project implement research-based best practices in diagnostic education, which allow the school to not only identify and address the root challenges faced by each student but also identify and help develop their strengths.
Head of the Class: “[Chartwell] not only teaches us academics but is a place where we can learn to understand ourselves and become creative and curious learners.”
– Elizabeth Bellingham
Community Partnership for Youth
Year Founded: 1992
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 31 paid, 350 volunteers
Budget: $887,000
394-4279
The Big Idea: Community Partnership for Youth wants to empower Alisal High School students to serve their community by being mentors, tutors and role models to younger kids while learning life and job skills. The nonprofit says it believes in the power of investing in the lives of young people; to that end it has established its High School Leadership, Life Skills and Job Preparation program. High school mentors must maintain a 2.5 GPA and volunteer for two quarters or a summer. CPY then hires the high-school students. It teaches job skills as well as the importance of giving back to one’s community. In 2014, CPY wants to expand the program to high-school students in Alisal. CPY has a partnership with Alisal School District, but needs help to grow high school leadership.
Future Leaders: “Oscar Gonzalez grew up in CPY, became a part of the High School Leadership Program and was selected to serve in AmeriCorps this year.”
Foundation for Monterey County Free Libraries
Year Founded: 1989
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 1 paid, 30 volunteers
Budget: $355,500
424-3564
The Big Idea: The nonprofit that supports Monterey County Free Libraries’ two youth literacy programs used some of last year’s Gives! donations to introduce a teen program with a muralist. It was a success – and inspired this year’s big idea: Engaging Teens, which will offer programs monthly at 14 Monterey County locations. These interactive programs include Blind Date with a Book, Teen Tech Week, Comic Book Day, a Teen Art Show and the Summer Reading Battle of the Books. Teens will create, draw, read (digital books and traditional paper books), write and critique. The program will encourage teens to use their library, meet other teens, participate in book discussions in a nonacademic environment, highlight their talents, use their technological skills and have fun. Sounds like donations well spent.
Booster Books: “During our 2013 Summer Reading Program, we offered more than 80 performances in 16 Monterey County locations, with more than 6,300 attending throughout the summer. Thanks in part to the summer reading program, the number of children in Monterey County who have school-readiness skills increases.”
Friends of Monterey Academy of Oceanographic Science
Year Founded: 1994
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 1 paid, 50 volunteers
Budget: $220,800
402-5774
The Big Idea: With colleges receiving increasing numbers of applications – -and cutting limiting enrollment because of budget cuts – getting into college is more competitive than ever. Monterey Academy of Oceanographic Science wants to give its students the opportunity to fully understand the college admission process, visit colleges and prepare for the SAT and ACT required by many colleges and universities. To that end, MAOS plans to offer a three-day, two-night college excursion for students, which will include visits to four colleges, intensive SAT prep sessions and a presentation by a college specialist. This will not only better prepare students to get into a college of their choice, but will also help them be successful once they get to school.
College Prep: “The MAOS program helped me discover my love for math and science and gave me the confidence to take many college level courses.”
– Gabi Pine, UC San Diego-bound MAOS 2013 graduate
Friends of the Monterey Public Library
Year Founded: 2000
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 0 paid, 45 volunteers
Budget: $60,000
646-5601
The Big Idea: Research shows that kids who miss out on regular summer reading start the school year below grade level. To help students avoid weeks of learning loss over the summer break, Monterey Public Library is participating in the Paws to Read 2014 statewide summer reading program. It needs help to support books and reading-rich programs for kids, tweens and teens next June and July. The 2014 program has a four-legged animal friend theme; Monterey Public Library’s got big ideas for a “read to me” dog volunteer, a stuffed animal sleepover, guide dog and author programs, prizes, treats and more. And now that the library is open on Sundays, it wants to reach more readers-in-waiting and build school success one summer reader at a time. Community donations will make it possible.
Entertainment Tonight: “I love reading, it’s like TV in my brain only better.”
– Arthur, age 8
Friends of the Salinas Public Library
Year Founded: 1978
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 0 paid, 110 volunteers
Budget: $24,000
214-5833
The Big Idea: Salinas’ literacy rates are low for both kids and adults. Having books in homes is one way to combat illiteracy. The Friends’ big idea, Little Libraries, makes books readily available to children and adults, increasing the likelihood of parents and kids reading at home. The nonprofit wants to establish birdhouse-like small libraries in all 48 city parks and many neighborhoods in Salinas. The libraries would operate on an honor basis with Get One/Give One, giving people access to books everywhere in Salinas. With 23.2 square miles in the city, not everyone lives close or has transportation to the libraries. The Friends needs funds for materials to build these mini-libraries, have signs printed for them and purchase children’s books to add to donated books. The organization says it will partner with other community organizations to construct, stock and monitor the mini-libraries, estimated to cost about $200 to build and fill with books.
Books on Wheels: “The Snappy Mobile received about $1,700 from Monterey County Gives [in 2012] and the library was able to put the Snappy Mobile out in East Salinas on many occasions, giving away books to children who lived too far from the library to get to the Summer Reading Program.”
Girl Scouts of California’s Central Coast
Year Founded: 1924
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 38 paid, 5,855 volunteers
Budget: $3,816,065
633-4877
The Big Idea: Girls under the age of 11 living in low-income neighborhoods are at 200 percent higher odds of being obese or overweight than girls living in advantaged neighborhoods. Girl Scouts of California’s Central Coast’s Soccer Series gets disadvantaged girls living in Seaside and Marina outside and active – running, kicking and playing as a means to get fit, eat healthy and combat rising childhood obesity trends. Through a collaboration with the Monterey Bay Sports League, this program provides young, underserved girls the opportunity to practice and play four vs. four non-competitive soccer games through two seasons in the fall and spring. The Soccer Series not only provides girls extra participation time and intensive physical activity, but also a chance to gain a greater knowledge of healthy lifestyles, build a supportive social network of adults, peers and community resources, and develop healthy goals. Ultimately it’s about teaching girls to engage in lifelong healthy pursuits and practices.
Back on Track: “Jicela participated in Girl Scouts in Juvenile Hall, learned about women who overcame adversity, and is now back in school to become a teacher.”
Girls Inc. of the Central Coast
Year Founded: 1999
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 5 paid, 30 volunteers
Budget: $578,321
772-0882
The Big Idea: The Strong, Smart and Bold summer camp is a two-week day camp for girls ages 9-14. Workshops include goal setting, being money wise, self-defense, having a positive body image, dealing with media and peer pressure, drug and alcohol use prevention, stress management and social skills. Girls also learn fun ways to stay healthy. In 2013, with Gives! donations, Girls Inc. served 35 campers. The nonprofit says evaluations conducted at the end of the two-week program showed positive changes in girls’ knowledge, attitudes and behaviors. In 2014, its goal is to expand the program to South County.
Standing Strong: “Girls Inc. had helped me have confidence in myself and to try new things and at the same time not fall into negative peer pressure.”
– Estefania Cabrera
Global Majority
Year Founded: 2004
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 1.75 paid, 25 volunteers
Budget: $75,000
372-5518
The Big Idea: Since Monterey County donors opened their pocketbooks to support last year’s big idea – the Global Majority Fellowship, which gives students practical skills to resolve conflict non-violently – the nonprofit has established a partnership with the Silver Star Youth Program at Rancho Cielo (which will serve as the feeder for Global Majority Fellows), and started its pilot program in conflict resolution skills in August. Additionally, the international aspect of the fellowship concept evolved from including the fellows in a Global Majority international graduate seminar, to participate in an international program with Global Potential, a partner organization that provides international experiences more appropriate for the life experiences of the incoming fellows. Global Majority is finalizing the design stage of the fellowship, and is ready to welcome its first fellows in 2014. It needs community support to pay for two fellows, who will receive a paid internship at Global Majority; targeted interaction with board members; career and life coaching from a certified coach; and mentoring by a Monterey Institute of International Studies graduate student. The fellowship will culminate in the students’ enrollment with Global Potential.
Nonviolent Revolution: “Global Majority’s conflict resolution training with my middle school students provided a powerful message of viable alternatives to violence.”
– Lana Price, middle school teacher
Habitat for Humanity Monterey County
Year Founded: 1976
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 3 paid, 300 volunteers
Budget: $500,000
272-4830
The Big Idea: The Veterans Transition Center in Marina has been struggling to build a community center for homeless vets and their families for more than 10 years. In 2014, Habitat for Humanity – which builds affordable houses using volunteer labor and donated materials – will take the lead on this construction project and finally get the community center built. But it needs volunteers and sponsors. By providing veterans with transitional housing, emergency services and case-management programs, veterans will once again become employable and productive members of our community.
Where the Heart Is: “The whole attitude has changed at our house. Everybody’s so excited about what we can do together. We have such big plans now.”
– Teresa Campos, mother of latest partner family of Habitat for Humanity
Harmony At Home
Year Founded: 2004
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 22 paid, 15 volunteers
Budget: $617,000
625-5160
The Big Idea: Bullying in the Salinas schools is a huge problem. To help address this, Harmony At Home, a nonprofit committed to ending the cycles of violence and abuse for children and families, has launched a new program, Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, at Los Padres Elementary School. The global program – named after Dr. Dan Olweus, the “founding father of research on bullying” – will directly affect 767 children, their families, school staff and the community, thus reducing violence in Monterey County. The organization needs help supporting this program that teaches empathy to children, and is designed for all students, not just those who are bullied or who bully others.
Bully-Free Schools: “The program has benefitted the school overall. It’s helped many kids cope with the everyday stress of school and their harsh/hard lives.”
– Rosie Alvarez, El Gabilan principal
International School of Monterey
Year Founded: Incorporated 1998, opened as a charter school 2001
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 46 paid, 800 volunteers
Budget: $3,183,466
583-2165
The Big Idea: International School of Monterey’s big idea from 2011-12 and 2012-13 carries over once again to 2013-14, the school’s final of three years of candidacy to become an International Baccalaureate World School. In its last year of the International Baccalaureate process, ISM says it will focus on embedding the Common Core State Standards into its curriculum while enriching student assessment and reporting practices. The school provides smaller classes, specialists teaching Spanish and the arts, differentiated learning in the classroom that meets children at their current level of ability and need from remedial to advanced, and a cohesive mission-driven school community. And it does all of this as a tuition-free, open-enrollment school where all families have equal access regardless of financial means. Becoming Monterey County’s first IB World School will be a big deal for the whole community because it will further elevate the quality of the school’s educational program.
Learning Aids: “Our thanks for attracting and hiring a staff with such a rich set of skills and passion for teaching.”
– Paul Gaucher, Seaside
Monterey County Rape Crisis Center
Year Founded: 1973
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 11 paid, 42 volunteers
Budget: $843,000
373-3955
The Big Idea: Last year Gives! donations supported nine single-gender violence prevention clubs in six Monterey County high schools. More than 100 students graduated from the clubs, which had a 75-percent attendance rate throughout the year. Some 95 percent of club members participated in at least one campus event challenging social norms and protesting sexual violence; two-thirds of club members also self-reported taking proactive intervention steps with their peers to prevent some form of sexually abusive language or behavior. The sounds like success – and the Rape Crisis Center wants to provide even more sexual violence prevention clubs in local high schools with this year’s Gives! funds. The goals of the MyStrength Club for males, and the My Life Club for females, is to examine the social norms and culture that surrounds youth, connect those messages to sexual violence and then empower teens to action. Students create a community of respect and healthy communication, which leads to sexual violence prevention, and everyone wins.
A Few Good Men: “The MyStrength club made me think about who I want to be in five to 10 years, and it’s influenced how I act now.”
– David Baker, MyStrength Club member
Monterey History & Art Association
Year Founded: 1931
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 8 paid, 32 volunteers
Budget: $273,400
372-2608
The Big Idea: MHAA brings the rich cultural history of Monterey County alive through oral history and guided tours by its in-house historian. In 2014, it wants to help kids in Salinas and North and South county reimagine this history. Every $600 raised provides a museum tour with materials, transportation and lunches for 30 underserved school kids, most of who have never been to the museum. These kids will learn about the county’s legacies, meet with curators and artists, and participate in interactive exhibits and activities including arts education workshops where they can create an artwork that expresses their experiences following the tours. MHAA will also work with local nonprofit organizations and schools to extend the museum’s reach to the most underserved populations.
Engaging Imaginations: “Our goals are to ignite the children’s curiosity and stimulate their imaginations, and lead them to an understanding of how a visit to a museum can enrich their lives.”
Monterey State Historic Park Association
Year Founded: 1975
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 1 paid, 85 volunteers
Budget: $124,400
649-7111
montereystatehistoricparkassociation.org
The Big Idea: It was at Monterey’s Custom House – the oldest government building in California – where Commodore John Drake Sloat raised the American flag in 1846, claiming some 600,000 square miles (portions of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, California and New Mexico) for the U.S. Monterey State Historic Park Association, the nonprofit that raises funds to support Monterey’s state historic landmarks, needs donations to keep the Custom House and Pacific House (a hotel and saloon built in 1835) museums open for a third day each week. Both sites are open only on weekends, which means schools can’t visit. Gives! donations to support the nonprofit’s Third Day campaign will provide 50 percent more access to two of Monterey’s most significant historic sites, allowing hundreds of local and visiting students to connect with these California landmarks.
This Old House: “Excellent exhibits and explanation giving insight in California’s earliest history. Important to conserve our heritage and expand research so it’s accessible to Californians and visitors.”
– Peter van der Loo, Berkeley
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Year Founded: 1966
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 200 paid, 58 volunteers
Budget: $2,600,000
771-4400
The Big Idea: Every year, thousands of people visit Moss Landing Marine Laboratories for its Open House weekend, and hundreds of youth tour the labs to learn how they can become marine scientists. Keep these activities exciting and accessible by making a donation. Gives! dollars will help develop new Open House activities, such as “Acid Ocean Dissolving Dilemma,” which will join the new “Walk Inside a Whale” and “Dive Under Antarctic Ice.” Community support will also keep tours for local school and nonprofit youth groups free and allow MLML to invite more students to visit the facility, educating Monterey County youth about the importance of our coastal and marine environments and providing them clear pathways to science and marine science careers.
Open Doors: “This is the kind of place that can excite children and give them direction… we’ll be back.”
– Mike K, Open House visitor
MY Museum
Year Founded: 649-6444
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 16 paid, 50 volunteers
Budget: $478,500
649-6444
The Big Idea: As funding sources disappear and transportation costs rise, early elementary and preschool teachers find it next to impossible to give students learning experiences outside of the classroom. MY Museum makes learning tangible and engaging with a host of interactive exhibits designed to reach important learning goals all in one fun venue. In 2014, MY Museum hopes to continue its reduced and free admission program for Monterey County schools – with local donations. Play is the work of children, providing them with the opportunity to maximize their potential, cultivate their creativity and develop important life skills. Let’s help MY Museum help young students play and learn regardless of limited public resources.
Play Date: “As a military mom new to the area, Monterey is fortunate to have such an affordable, safe facility that gives my kids endless learning opportunities. Such a fun place to spend time with my family.”
Partners For Peace
Year Founded: 1995
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 23 paid, 15 volunteers
Budget: $222,452
754-3888
The Big Idea: The researched-based Strengthening Families program is available to all Monterey County families. With additional support, Partners for Peace can increase the number of classes and reach more families in need. In 2012, the nonprofit offered 30 classes, reaching more than 855 parents and youth. It trained 15 new instructors and mentored three agencies to begin classes of their own. Let’s help them build even more strong families – and a peaceful future – in 2014.
Setting Boundaries: “I learned how to stick to my rules, to be assertive and also show love to him – love and limits.”
– A parent graduate of Strengthening Families
Peacock Acres
Year Founded: 1984
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 44 paid, 150 volunteers
Budget: $1,985,000
754-3635
The Big Idea: The road to success for foster youth is extremely difficult and many without a positive support network ultimately find themselves behind bars. Peacock Acres’ big idea, Wheels 4 Work, will assist current and former foster youth in obtaining a stable source of transportation (a used car) so they can maintain a job. Although these youth are very adept at using public transportation, the bus is not an option for everyone. For example, Monte works the dinner shift at a restaurant that closes at midnight. He gets home (Salinas) from Seaside at 1:30 am. Mary wants a job at a ranch in Prundedale, cleaning horse stalls and feeding the animals. Mike wants to work the harvest season at a winery in Soledad. In both cases, the bus will get them to the middle of town but not the last four to six miles to the job site. Help these kids on their journey to success by pitching in for a set of wheels.
These Birds Can Fly: “Peacock Acres supplied me with everything I took to college and helped me get to where I am today: a self reliant and courageous individual.”
Rancho Cielo
Year Founded: 2000
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 27 paid, 30 volunteers
Budget: $2,385,521
444-3533
The Big Idea: Shortly after this year’s graduation, Rancho Cielo was notified that its U.S. Department of Labor YouthBuild grant, which previously funded the Rancho Cielo Construction Academy, was not renewed. Rancho Cielo will move forward with a scaled-back RCCA for the 2013-14 school year – but it needs donations to pay for the program costs. RCCA targets youth, ages 16 to 24, who are low-income and don’t have high school diplomas. People without high school diplomas have the highest rates of unemployment and the lowest earnings, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and without work or school youth are more likely to become involved in crime and to rely on public assistance and government health care. RCCA helps participants complete their high school diploma or GED and gain competency in basic reading, math, and writing skills. It also provides hands-on job training and help participants establish work history. At the conclusion of the program, youth are prepared for and referred to local job opportunities.
Graduation Day: “No one knows what the world has in store for you. We have however, been given the tools to deal with those life events.”
– Martin M. 2013 RC graduate
Samz School of Music
Year Founded: 2009
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 0 paid, 4 volunteers
Budget: $25,000
235-9588
The Big Idea: Samz School wants to “change one kid at a time” by providing music instruction for youth, especially to those who can’t afford lessons. The program is open to kids from all backgrounds and skill levels, including kids with disabilities, and its students perform at community events such as the Monterey County Fair, Salinas Relay for Life, Rancho Cielo, Oasis Charter School and others. If kids are learning and practicing music after school, they’re less likely to get into trouble. Gives! donations mean more kids will have access to music education and opportunities to demonstrate their creativity and self-expression.
High Notes: “Thank you for having my son participate from summer camps to all the music performances. He now has a whole new career planned at Berkeley with new friends; all experiences he would have missed.”
Literacy Campaign for Monterey County
Year Founded: 2011
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 2 paid, 2 volunteers
Budget: $220,000
595-2665
The Big Idea: Last years’ Gives! helped fund the 2013 Literacy & the Economy Summit on Oct. 25, which aimed to get leaders in business, the community, government, the faith community and education to engage in and support grassroots literacy-related efforts. In 2014, the Literacy Campaign wants to bring the summit back but with a different theme: Parents as the First Teachers. Research shows that a child’s educational success is directly tied back to her ability to read by the end of third grade. Some 17,000 children in Monterey County, kindergarten through third grade, do not read on grade-level. The Literacy Campaign’s big idea is to bring the community together to address the educational needs of our youngest learners by engaging parents. The nonprofit’s 2014 Literacy Summit will help make the community aware of the top four topic areas that hinder grade level reading success: chronic absenteeism, summer learning loss, grade-three reading readiness, and the parents’ role in literacy in the home.
Parent Teachers: “The Campaign rallies the community to help parents understand the parent-child bond is critical to children’s academic success.”
– Mary Ellison, literacy manager, Salinas Public Library
Walk and Roll Foundation
Year Founded: 2011
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 1 paid, 25 volunteers
Budget: $45,000
855-925-9255
The Big Idea: An 18-year-old was out with friends, drinking and having fun when she got into a car with a friend who has drunk. The car crashed. Now she’s a T-10 Paraplegic. She’s also a public speaker, traveling to schools with WARF’s Rally4Reality outreach program and sharing her story with impressionable teens. WARF, which educates about the dangers of distracted and drunk driving and provides services to spinal cord injury survivors, currently travels to local venues and schools sharing these types of life-saving messages with students and adults. It wants to expand its Rally4Reality program to more schools, but it can’t do this without community support.
Close to Home: “The Harbor High leadership class really embraced Chelsie and looks forward to making this an annual event! Thanks for being such a great speaker.”
– Joseph Allegri, Harbor High physical education
Youth Arts Collective
Year Founded: 2000
Paid Staff and Volunteers: 7 paid, 75 volunteers
Budget: $269,455
375-9922
The Big Idea: This year, 100 percent of Youth Arts Collective seniors completed high school and will study at the colleges of their choice, many with scholarships. YAC plans to expand the reach of its core program in 2014 with two new projects: Teaching Across Generations (TAG) for 8 – to 13-year-old budding artists, and Professional Artist Workshops for adults. Both are based on successful pilot projects in 2013 and both are slated for times in which YAC Studios are not being used by the core program for 14 – to 22-year-olds. TAG on Saturday mornings features the older YACsters serving as program mentors, under the direction of YAC staff, using YAC materials. The Professional Artist Workshops in various mediums fulfills a long-standing interest by area adults for such a program, and invited artists will be paid to conduct these workshops. The first and third Mondays YAC will continue its new two-hour life-drawing sessions, open to adult artists from the community as well as interested YACsters. Adults pay per session and YACsters at no additional charge.
Home Base: “YAC is where I feel accepted and fit in. I am 18 now, and know I will never be happier doing anything outside the arts.”
– Angela Bomarito
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