Sidewalk Poets: Help People Heal Through Story!
A nonprofit fundraiser supporting
Colorado Nonprofit Development Center (CNDC)Sidewalk Poets provides underserved communities with free storytelling + writing workshops.
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Give the Gift of Healing with Creative Writing!
Help us reach our goal to fund SIX 8-week writing and storytelling workshops for kids in Title 1 schools and adults with mental health and substance misuse challenges.
Our free writing workshops help participants expand self-awareness, process emotions, boost confidence, and gain a new tool for coping with stress and difficulties. $25 gives one participant a free 2-hour creative writing workshop—$100 provides a 2-hour workshop to a small group!
Sidewalk Poets is a nonprofit providing creative writing and storytelling workshops to underserved communities and individuals—so they can share their voices, build resilience, process pain and trauma, gain new skills and tools, feel more empowered, and enrich their neighborhoods and the city.
At Sidewalk Poets, we believe that every voice has value and that every story deserves to be told—and heard.
Sidewalk Poets is a project of Colorado Nonprofit Development Center. Your donation will go directly to Sidewalk Poets and is fully tax deductible.
OUR WORK
Creative Writing + Storytelling Workshops
We provide free creative writing and storytelling workshops that empower community members to find and share their voices, build confidence and resilience, and heal together.
Word + Art Installations
Using words and images from workshops, we publicly showcase personal and collective stories to leave behind echoes that enrich and infuse the community with collective voice, history and art.
CURRENT + UPCOMING PROGRAMS
- Writing as Mental Health Support in Treatment Centers through Denver Courts—Denver's Problem Solving Courts work to funnel people with mental health and substance misuse issues out of the criminal justice system and into treatment. In conjunction with the PSCs and Mile High Behavioral Healthcare Treatment Center, we are leading 8-week creative writing workshops to support mental health, self-expression and resilience, as part of participants' overall treatment and recovery plans.
- Creative Writing + Literacy Workshops with Newcomer 5th Graders at Ashley Elementary Title One School in East Colfax—The school had an influx of over 100 new Spanish-speaking newcomer students. We're leading writing workshops in English and Spanish to support literacy and language acquisition, as well as processing grief and trauma.
- Writing Workshops for People with Disabilities with Access Gallery
- Processing the Past Through Writing with Pregnant and Postpartum Mothers in Recovery with MHBHC
- Creative Writing + Job Skills Workshops with Prodigy Coffeehouse Apprentices Program
- Writing + Arts Workshops with Newcomer + Refugee Youth with Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning
- DPS Wellness - Supporting Teachers + Staff in Professional Development Wellness Writing Workshops for Second-Hand Trauma
- Self-Expression + Advocacy Bi-lingual Storytelling + Writing Workshops for Spanish-Speaking Moms and Caregivers in East Colfax