Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form<\/p>\n
Organization Name: Austin Bat Cave
\nLegal Name (if Different): Kids Write Good
\nAlso Known As: Kids Write Good DBA Austin Bat Cave
\nMailing Address: PO Box 4762
\nCity: Austin
\nState: TX
\nPostal Code: 78765
\nMain Phone: (512) 522-8489
\nMain Fax: n\/a
\nOrganization Website: austinbatcave.org
\nEmployer ID Number: 46-3593848
\nOrganization Tax Status: 501 (c) (3)<\/p>\n
Proposal Information<\/p>\n
Today’s Date: 03\/29\/2025
\nRequested Amount: $7000<\/p>\n
Project Title: School Year Creative Writing Programs
\nProject Description:<\/p>\n
Austin Bat Cave is a creative community. For 18 years, ABC has provided writing programs to Central Texas youth (ages 6-18) by connecting them with local novelists, poets, journalists, and other professional artists. ABC serves students who are BIPOC, come from low-income families, and have limited access to art enrichment opportunities. Approximately 60% of our school-year students are at-risk and 71% are under-resourced. <\/p>\n
Each semester, 28 teaching artists and volunteer instructors lead an average of 13 weekly tuition-free in-school and after-school writing workshops for more than 200 Title I students. Students explore slam poetry, bilingual poetry, comic book writing, and more. <\/p>\n
To genuinely benefit our students, ABC develops programs to address students\u2019 needs and hire paid teaching artists who reflect students\u2019 cultural and ethnic diversity. ABC\u2019s program team works with each school and community partner to craft a specialized workshop curriculum, ensuring our instructors create a safe and inclusive space for learning. Our bilingual programming enhances students\u2019 ability to express themselves more fully in both their home and second languages, building confidence and gaining skills that promote academic and personal success. Most crucially, we use student feedback when developing new programs. <\/p>\n
ABC\u2019s workshops address more than artistic and academic needs: ABC carefully crafts programs to combat the ongoing mental health epidemic among young people. Public policy organization Every Texan writes that roughly 1-in-5 Texas children are affected by a mental, emotional, developmental, or behavioral problem, and 1-in-3 experience a mental health disorder every year. ABC\u2019s partners have expressed great concern over their students\u2019 mental health needs, but budget cuts have limited or eliminated extracurricular programs that build student confidence and resilience. Further, decreased mental health resources in Texas schools leave only one counselor available for every 390 students. Today, supplementary arts programs like ABC are needed more than ever. <\/p>\n
Total Project Budget: $200,000<\/p>\n
Other Funding
\nSources For The Project (Committed & Potential): Applied Materials Foundation, Texas Commission on the Arts: Arts Create Grant, Webber Foundation, Seawell Elam Foundation, Rae Charitable Trust, Austin Community Foundation<\/p>\n
Project Duration: September 2025 – June 2026
\nGeographical Area Served: Greater Austin, Texas
\nAge Group To Be Served: 6-18<\/p>\n
Contact Information<\/p>\n
Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Ms.
\nContact First Name: Emily
\nContact Last Name: Chammah
\nContact Title: Grant Writer
\nContact Phone: (313) 720-8010
\nContact Email: grants@austinbatcave.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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