Urban Word NYC is dedicated to providing writing and performance programs for teens who need them most. Your donations and purchases help us to keep our programs FREE and accessible, as well as providing our mentors and educators with relevant and dynamic teaching resources they need.
Because Urban Word NYC is a grassroots organization, your support has a direct and immediate impact on the lives of NYC's youth. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation so that we can continue to offer our award-winning programs to the teenagers who need them most.
Make a lasting impact on a young person's life: support teens who are working to develop their unique voices a poets, writers, scholars and activists.
$20Pays for 2 more youth contestants to participate free of charge in our poetry slam “count down to the Apollo”
$50 helps keep the doors open in our Chelsea safe space for teens – humming with youth voices throughout every weekday afternoon and evening all year long
$100Provides 20 young writers with notebooks, supplies and healthy snacks
$200Pays for 50 young poets to experience a life-changing seminar/workshop by an acclaimed NYC poet
$300 Provides 10 NYC teens a seat in a 12-week after school writing intensive workshop
$500 Provides 5 teenagers a seat in our 12-week intensive Creatively College Bound program: helps underserved NYC youth in the college search and application processes especially helping teens find their unique voices as they complete their college essays and applications.
____No donation is too small. Our overhead is very low – and each dollar goes far! Thank you!
You may also make a check payable to URBAN WORD NYC
Mail Donation to: URBAN WORD NYC 242 W. 27th Street, Suite 3A New York, NY 10001
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