Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form<\/p>\n
Organization Name: Podium RVA
\nLegal Name (if Different): The Podium Foundation
\nAlso Known As: Podium
\nMailing Address: 200 S 3rd St
\nCity: Richmond
\nState: VA
\nPostal Code: 23219
\nMain Phone: 804-614-5030
\nMain Fax: n\/a
\nOrganization Website: www.podiumrva.org
\nEmployer ID Number: 26-1877724
\nOrganization Tax Status: 501c3<\/p>\n
Proposal Information<\/p>\n
Today’s Date: 3\/17\/2026
\nRequested Amount: $6,000.00<\/p>\n
Project Title: Teen Writing Mentorship Project
\nProject Description:<\/p>\n
Podium provides free after-school and summer youth writing workshops, publications, and teen professional development programs across under-resourced communities in Richmond, VA. Programs meet weekly for throughout the year in three-month sessions. Alongside their Podium mentors, youth learn to use writing as a tool for healing, self-expression, and in preparation for higher education and the workforce. Programs lessons help youth build their self-confidence and advocacy skills while exploring literary forms of poetry, prose, debate, journalism, theatrics, science fiction, and more.<\/p>\n
This project supports Podium’s summer teen Writing Mentorship Project (WMP), where upperclassmen and recent high school graduates apply for a six-week intensive learning internship. In the Writing Mentorship Project, teen writers are not solely recipients of program services. They take the skills they have worked on with Podium throughout the school year and use them to help other young people find their inner writer and communicator. Summer peer mentorship programs are more than just a way to keep busy; they are powerful engines for personal and community growth. When teens transition from learner to creator and leader, the impact is profound.<\/p>\n
WMP interns learn group facilitation and program quality skills before they develop a series of creative writing and communication workshops and program resources for middle school aged youth. Alongside Podium staff, WMP interns then facilitate their workshops in summer middle school programs. WMP interns engage weekly in the writing process by crafting reflection responses of the work they complete throughout their internship. Shared by Destiny, a former WMP intern, then Podium staff member, the \u201cWMP [internship] allows us to come full circle. To take what we know and pass it down to those coming up where we just were.\u201d<\/p>\n
Total Project Budget: $24,000<\/p>\n
Other Funding
\nSources For The Project (Committed & Potential): Committed: $6,000 from Partnership for the Future + $6,000 from Mayor’s Youth Academy; Potential: Dill Family Foundation: $6,000<\/p>\n
Project Duration: June 2027 – August 2027
\nGeographical Area Served: Richmond, VA
\nAge Group To Be Served: teens, ages 15 – 19<\/p>\n
Contact Information<\/p>\n
Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Ms.
\nContact First Name: Vicki
\nContact Last Name: Yeroian
\nContact Title: Executive Director
\nContact Phone: 804-614-5030
\nContact Email: vicki.yeroian@podiumrva.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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