"Tricking kids into a love of writing since 2007."
The kickstarter funding campaign, initiated by Manuel Gonzales, is more than a literacy program: the focus is on expression of self, for kids. The group, Austin Bat Cave (abc - get it?), is based in Texas, but got its inspiration from 826 National, which has chapters in eight major metropolitan cities in the United States.
I, myself, have experience with such a group right here in Savannah. The Deep Center is a nonprofit organization that links creative folks with middle-school children, encouraging their creativity and then publishing their collective works in books, books for them to keep and books which can be sold to raise funds to continue the program in another middle school. I've purchased several of those books at fundraisers here in town, then given the books to my nieces and nephews.
Austin Bat Cave doesn't seem to be age-specific. Its programs are offered at all grade levels.
I like that.
Diversity is good.
So, to encourage them, I opted to "buy a word" with $11 (November, right).
They're going to write a haiku for me, too.
Awesome!
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Update #7
Nov 14, 2011
YAY!
We did it! And we were able to do it---meet our fundraising goal in more than enough time---because of all of you. We appreciate your help, honestly, more than we can say, and the rewards you've chosen and our heartfelt appreciation don't even begin to adequately articulate how supported and encouraged we feel. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
We will be contacting everyone who donated with specific questions for you about delivery of your rewards and coordinating those rewards that are not so much delivered as they are scheduled. So please keep an eye out for those messages from us and if you have any questions in the meantime, please don't hesitate to send me a message through Kickstarter or directly at mgonzales@austinbatcave.org.
Thanks again so much for all your help with this. We're very excited about our in-school program and working with these fabulous kids and helping shape the next generation of readers and writers and thinkers, and without you and your support, we would not be able to do what we do.
Manuel Gonzales & the Good Folk at Austin Bat Cave
Update #8
Nov 28, 2011
Hello all Kickstarter contributors! We hope you had a great Thanksgiving and are looking forward to a good end of 2011. We are gathering all your wonderful prizes and will be sending stuff out and making arrangements in the next couple of weeks. Thanks again for all your support!
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