2012 Annual Campaign

New Urban Arts’ Annual Campaign makes our nationally recognized arts programs available to the teenagers who need them most. It gives them the tools they need to lead creative and meaningful lives. In 2012 we aim to raise $90,000 through our Campaign.

Your gift matters: Our Annual Campaign runs with our fiscal year (July 1 to June 30) and is supported by over 250 individuals like you. Our annual campaign has grown from a few thousand dollars just a few years ago to a reliable annual source of income that supports almost a third of our budget. This is the moment to support the next generation of creative, critical thinkers, and invest our hope in the future.

You can help Providence youth overcome the obstacles they face to success:

• Poverty: Over 85% of our students qualify for free or reduced lunch based on income guidelines. Over half live in neighborhoods where the family poverty rate is 37%, four times the national rate.
• Creative expression: The City of Providence’s cultural assessment finds persistent “dissatisfaction with the current state of arts education in Providence.” Their assessment also finds that “access to arts education in Providence is uneven.” New Urban Arts directly addresses this problem.
• Inspiring and effective learning Communities: Only 6% of Providence public schools in 2008 were considered “high performing” while New Urban Arts can give students a place to learn and grow.

Your gift to our Annual Campaign provides young people...

...the opportunity to work directly alongside and be mentored by accomplished, caring and well-trained artist mentors Our Artist Mentors share a wide range of experiences with younger artists. Mentors are college students, graduate students, professional artists, public school teachers, art therapists, and college faculty among others. Arts mentoring positions are competitive -- last year we received over 40 applications for only 15 positions. Young people interview and select all of our artist mentors. Artist Mentors receive over 30 hours of professional development including 1:1 coaching and workshops on youth development, community arts practice and education.

...access to a well-equipped interdisciplinary art studio and gallery New Urban Arts buys art supplies for more than 300 high school students from over 10 Providence public schools. We maintain a screen print studio, a digital media lab and black and white photography darkroom. Students receive frequent opportunities to perform, exhibit and publish their work. Our public programs attracted over 2,000 visitors last year.

...high quality learning and employment experiences during the summer Our five-week summer program provides 30 paid student internships where young people work closely with artists and scholars on group and independent projects and lead creative arts workshops for the public.

... free intensive college advising services All New Urban Arts students who have participated for at least one year are eligible for college advising in their senior year and post graduation support through our partnership with College Visions. 100% of our seniors in this program gain admission to college annually.

... academic support Studio study buddies provide students intensive and targeted 1:1 tutoring support, homework help and test preparation.

You have helped us meet the growing need in this city...

Since 2005, the average number of youth using our art studio every month has almost tripled, from 44 in 2005 to 116 in 2008. Despite this increase in participation, we've been able to keep our Artist Mentor to student ratio below 7:1 and continue to provide high-quality relationships for all of our students. Last year:

• 97% of students agreed or strongly agreed that they had built strong, trusting relationships with their peers and with an artist mentor.
• 97% developed a way of creating that expressed who they were, and
• 100% of students agreed or strongly agreed that New Urban Arts was a safe and supportive environment.

Thank you. Please invest your hope. Support New Urban Arts’ Annual Campaign.

 

BECOME A MONTHLY SUSTAINER!
Monthly Giving Options Mover : $10.00USD - monthly Shaker : $15.00USD - monthly Pioneer : $21.00USD - monthly Dynamo : $42.00USD - monthly Superstar : $84.00USD - monthly Cornerstone : $209.00USD - monthly
GROUP HUG $10,000	Enables 15 high school students to participate in a free, 6-week creative summer program.
CORNER OFFICE $5,000	Provides supplies for 50 high school students for a free 40-week after-school program.
CORNERSTONE $2,500	Provides 7 students with a year-long college preperatory program.
SUPERSTAR $1,000	Enables 100 students to produce 2 visual arts gallery exhibitions each school year.
DYNAMO $500	Enables 15 students to stage a popular fashion show each May.
PIONEER $250	Buys silkscreen ink for 35 students in our 40-week after-school program.
SHAKER $175	Provides drawing materials for 15 students to build colleg portfolios in our 40-week after-school program.
MOVER $100	Provides 1 student with photographic chemistry, 10 rolls of film, and the 30 sheets of paper needed to print a photography portfolio.