"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!
