AGE UP is wrapping up its second awesome year. Our program runs from winter to spring without funding for summer. The $5,000 will change this! We will create a pilot summer program, "AGE UP Summer Sessions," to expand opportunities for girls in South Seattle. Like our winter and spring programs, the Summer Sessions will combine leadership development and Ultimate Frisbee. First, the Sessions will involve our continuing participants in workshops, youth-driven program visioning, and strategic planning (in a fun way!) Second, the Sessions will allow us to host two all-girl Ultimate Frisbee tournaments to bring girls together from all across Seattle. The $5,000 will deepen our leadership development work and expand our reach.

This grant will enable top Hawaiian and guest facilitators to work with Hawaiian locals and visitors during a collaborative week of workshops and performances. Infusing cultural values and traditions into both Hawaiian and Western performing arts disciplines, participants will work together to create performances which will be shared with the local community, using the theme Huliau 2012: The Turning Point. Heralded in past years by local artists and media as one of the most innovative and inspiring collaborations in the state, budget cuts have left KPAF short on funds to sponsor local participants in need, and provide teacher honorariums for the project. If awarded this grant, funding will continue this innovative work in Puna this July.

The Epitome Project is a new kind of music residency in Kathmandu. Three working bands/songwriters from different genres will perform paid gigs (twice a month) and produce at least 1 original Nepali song per month. This will result in a total of 18 live shows and the creation of 9 new songs, which will be recorded for a live album. The majority of the funds will go toward paying the musicians and engineers to help sustain themselves through music, while also providing the people of Kathmandu with quality live shows. This will also give the musicians the focus and motivation to create new songs. The rest of the funds will go toward promo materials, live recording, and admin costs. The goal is to support our local musicians.

Production is expensive. $3000 will be used to 1) build our production team, 2) subsidize our equipment & travel, 3) post-production expenses (e.g, color correction, sound). The pragmatic component requires us to engage others and test the validity & soundness of our methods. $1500 will be used to 1) setup workshops & activities w/ local universities & high schools to generate dialog around these films, 2) facilitate a partnership w/ sociologists to evaluate the success of our project and publish findings. Because we are interested in insuring our project outlasts the $5K, sustainability and scalability is important. $500 will be used for social media tools to help set up the infrastructure for long-term engagement & community partnership.

•The average child needs $308 worth of supplies and clothes to start a new school year •Combined with rising costs and a 27% reduction to the AL DHR General Fund, resources are limited to provide for the needs of the nearly 6,000 kids in the state’s foster care system. •Less than 60% of kids that spent time in foster care went on to earn a high school diploma, and only 2% went on to receive a college degree. BigHouse wants to promote academic success and confidence in foster children. A $5,000 grant would allow BigHouse to provide school essentials such as new clothes, shoes, backpacks, notebooks, etc. for kids and teens in foster care to minimize the strain on foster parents’ budgets and prepare them for the upcoming school year.

We will use the $5000 to put Dash in the hands of teachers serving low-income students before next school year. Specifically, we will spend money on product development and marketing. We have launched a product for beta testing but we need to further pay developers to fix bugs and incorporate user feedback. Simultaneously, we will travel to cities throughout the U.S. to promote Dash to teachers at Teach For America Institutes & pre-school year professional development weeks. In addition to travel costs, we need to print marketing and training materials for the teachers to whom we pitch. The $5000 allows us to showcase a high-functioning version of Dash to a critical mass of teachers and resultantly improve K-12 education outcomes.

We are currently working on the book, and we have teams visiting cancer patients in different hospitals in Miami, NY, Israel, and Venezuela. When we talk with patients we announce the book will be coming out soon, but we want to leave something there. We want to give them something in return for opening the doors and talking with us about their deep concerns. $2,000 will be invested in different items that will be given to the patients, spefications on the website, $1,000 will be invested in HopeBook Design Department to print prototypes of the book and tested, $1,400 will be used to invite a cancer patient to attend to our speech at TEDxUChicago 2013, $400 for “Kids Drawing for Hope”, $200 HopeBook expenses. Details at www.hopebook.org/5k

$5,000 will fund 5,000 Art Feeds therapeutic art lessons. During the school year, Art Feeds reaches children weekly at their schools. Children thrive in Art Feeds programs & we are dedicated to reaching more children with our programs. We will reach children this summer by aligning with summer camps, schools, and weekend workshops. Art Feeds has a very specific budget for each lesson. Each lesson only costs $1 per child. $5,000 will provide 5000 Art Feeds lessons to Joplin children. Our team consists of 3 staff members, 10 interns, and 200 volunteers dedicated to reaching over 2500 children this summer in addition to over 1,000 students we will continue to reach weekly through summer school.

Peach's Neet Feet (PNF) is a grassroots custom shoe donation project. In 12 months, they have delivered 300 pairs of hand-painted canvas shoes to children (PNF Fighters) in 37 states. The calendar is full 2months out and requests pour in daily. $5,000 would allow the all-volunteer PNF crew to purchase computer equipment and office supplies, cover substantial shipping expenses, permit Peach and her crew to significantly increase the number of children they can provide shoes for by creating funding for them to to visit participating hospitals to host shoe-painting parties, allowing painting and distribution of multiple pairs of shoes at each party. Another aspect of PNF outreach is the provision of “Care Packages” to fighters in long-term car

This will be the third time we have a conference and we want to make sure more participants can attend (we usually cap it at 100). Prior to the weekend, we want to host a handball tournament for youth in the LES and Chinatown to participate and learn more about CYI. In addition, this year we added a voter registration component into the weekend as it is an important election year and we hope to partner up with other organizations in NYC to make the vote really count. $5000 will help us make the tenth Chinatown Beautification Weekend the best yet with greater capacity at the conference, a new community event prior to the weekend, and voter registration! All CYI programs are coordinated for and by high school or college aged youth.

With this grant, our organization would hire translators to make our programming accessible to girls of diverse linguistic backgrounds. We would focus on the four most common languages other than English spoken by Portland residents, Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin Chinese and Russian, and reach out to these communities by providing translated versions of our program descriptions, camp applications and release forms. Additionally, in order to reach a wider range of girls with varied musical interests, we would purchase more gear to expand our hip hop elements track.

The Hispanic Youth Institute is a pre-college resident program that will be hosted on the Marymount University campus August 1 through August 5. High school sophomores and juniors mostly from the Greater Washingtion DC area will come together to learn how to overcome real and preceived barriers to college access. Through educational and career workshops, leadership opportunities, inspirational speakers, introductions to "Hispanic Hero" mentors, talent competitions and more, these high school students are motivated and prepared to go to college, become professionals and give back to their community. A grant of $5,000 would help cover the cost of transportation for 130 high school students participating in this life-changing program.

With $5,000 we'd be able to fund 5 high school volunteer groups that would meet monthly throughout the school year. This would result in over 3500 volunteer hours in support of organizations and individuals in need throughout Central Texas. Last year Positive Footprint helped fuel organizations such as Mobile Loaves & Fishes, The Capital Area Food Bank, The Texas Ramp Project, Austin's Good Cookies, Foundation Communities and Family Eldercare with over 600 volunteer hours. So far we have the applications from interested students, the know-how and the drive to do this, but we need your vote and help spreading the word, to make it a reality.

These funds will enable us to run two ongoing Future Shops -- open, collaborative, learning spaces -- where our Fellows and community of volunteers will join forces to create Future Projects. Over the course of the 6-week summer Fellowship, we'll need to cover food and transportation costs for our 50+ high school Fellows in two cities, as well as salary costs for those running the programs. The funds will also allow us to host a summer's-end community-wide celebration of the big dreams and bold actions of our Fellows.

Click the link to our video to check out the awesomeness of KAYA! The $5,000 will be put to great use as we will: 1. Create both aesthetic and functional designs for the first line of KAYA handbags (a stylish functional tote). 2. We will product and ship our batch of totes through high quality and ethical manufacturers. 3. We will purchase and ship school supplies to our partnered schools in the Philippines, making a significant impact on the lives of hundreds of students. 4. We will market and advertise to our target market through high performance online advertising.

Putting on a summer program for 50 kids in NYC is a challenge! $5000 will go a LONG way towards helping us make this program a reality. All funding obtained for this project will go towards the renting the space, a piano/keyboard, lights, chairs for the final performance for our audience, food for the reception, paying the teaching artists and insurance. The overall budget is about $18,000. To date we have raised close to $5000. Statement Arts is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to build self confidence and enrich underserved youth with creative experience. We believe that these arts education channels enhance young people's intellectual performance and self esteem, enabling them to become ambassadors in their communities.

These funds will send 15 kids to Summer Stars to have a life changing experience! These are kids whose families do not have the financial resources for summer programs. As one camper wrote, "Summer Stars does not teach musicianship to create more musicians, Summer Stars taught me musicianship so that I might stumble upon something greater." Summer Stars encourages hard work, risk taking and the joy of performing through intensive workshops. Participants learn voice and diction, vocal production and vocal techniques for different styles of music, improvisational acting, acting exercises, dance styles and techniques. One thing we know for certain is that a ten-day program can be life changing.

In summer of 2012, SMART will develop our first structured College Tour program to give our Scholars the opportunity to see college life first hand and envision themselves as college students. Due to the economic constraints of SMART families, many do not have the time or resources to travel with their children to visit various college campuses. The program will serve our rising 11th and rising 12th grade SMART Scholars (and rising 10th grade students to the extent which we are able) by introducing them to a variety of college campuses. This funding would allow us to take a group of students to several colleges and provide the meals, housing and support needed throughout the trip.

$5,000 will enable us to originate a media identity for HC2.0 by funding a "sizzle reel" of our work. In just one year, we have reached over 200 NYCDOE students, and are poised to nearly double that this summer through expansion to summer camps and other community sites. It is difficult to verbally explain our work - combining exercise with positive affirmations, consuming a healthful snack, engaging in food conversations that empower students to be change agents both in their personal nutrition and the food systems around them - and we know we could impact even more young people with a short reel showing classes, discussions with the founders, our DOE students, and our college leaders. This would be key to expanding our social impact.

Trugs have been installed in May of this year and will be removed this fall. Throughout this approximately 18-week installation period, different nonprofits, local businesses, and artists have signed on to create “programming activities” surrounding the trugs to continue to engage the community and enliven the underutilized corridor. This summer, trugs will host art displays, sidewalk sales, free lead testing, kid friendly activities, and much more. This $5,000 grant will be used toward the reimbursement costs associated with the programming expenses. To date, we have nearly 20 organizations and several partnerships signed on to coordinate and host these activities all summer long.