youth venture grant

Submitted by mynweb on Thu, 09/27/2007 - 2:07am.

mynweb

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here it is, along with notes we brainstormed a few weeks ago

this is the way we decided to split up the questions today:
Q #1= Ingrid, #2= Cece, #3= Leanne, #4= Everybody, #5= Gabe, #6= Everybody, #7= Sarah and Brendan

1. What’s the name of your Venture?
§ Clearly state the name of the Venture and describe its meaning or relevance to your Venture idea.
§ If the team name is an acronym, indicate what the acronym stands for.

2. What’s your Venture idea?
§ Describe the Venture idea in detail. Be sure to include the following:
§ The reason why your team wants to create this Venture
§ The main function and purpose of the Venture
§ The benefit the community will receive from this Venture

3. What’s your immediate action plan?
A detailed plan is especially important during the early stages. Having a plan will greatly improve your chances of creating a successful Venture. If you need guidance in answering this question, please see the SMART goal tip sheets available on the Youth Venture website. Go to www.youthventure.org and click on Start Your Venture under the Learn More section.
§ Outline the major goals you will establish that will help you to start and maintain your Venture during its first year. Be as specific as possible.
§ Outline the tasks your team will need to accomplish in order to achieve each goal.
§ Clearly state how you will measure the impact and the success of your Venture.

4. Create a timeline of your Venture’s activities.
Start by listing every month for the next year, beginning with the current month. Next, list all of the projects, tasks, and events that will occur during each month. You need to indicate when each of the goals listed in your response to Question 3 will occur. You may use the timeline attached to this packet (see Appendix A) or you may create your own timeline using a word-processing or spreadsheet program.

5. How will you maintain your Venture in the long-term?
Ventures are sustainable, ongoing organizations; they are not short-term projects designed to last for a week, a month, or a year. In this section, explain how the infrastructure of the organization will be maintained. Your response should include:
§ Membership: How will you recruit new members or volunteers?
§ Funding: How will your Venture earn funding after the start-up grant is spent?
§ Leadership: How will you choose a new leader after the current leaders have moved on to jobs or other schools?
For further guidance, please see our tip sheet on Sustainability, which is available if at the end of this packet (Appendix B).

6. Who will do what on your team? Who will support your team?
§ List and describe the role of each member of your team. Be certain that a team member is responsible for each of the tasks listed in your response to Question 3.
§ Specifically indicate who will be responsible for the team’s finances.
§ Include the name and contact information of at least one Ally, a non-controlling adult mentor your team can call upon for expertise and guidance as you start and run your Venture. For additional guidance, please visit www.youthventure.org and click on Start Your Venture under the Learn More section.

7. What is the budget of your Venture?
Youth Venture awards grants of up to $1,000 to help Ventures get started. This means that the Youth Venture grant can be used to cover expenses accrued until a Venture starts earning funding on its own. This budget is your team’s chance to illustrate your Venture’s financial needs and/or the amount it will cost your Venture to start running. Show all of the expenses and income you expect to amass as you launch and sustain your Venture—at least through the first year. Youth Venture and a Selection Panel will decide upon the total amount of Youth Venture grant funding your Venture is eligible to receive based on the information provided in your budget.

Follow the bullet points below and illustrate your budget in a table or spreadsheet. We suggest using the forms available at the end of this Action Plan (see Appendices C and D) or, if you prefer, you may create your own budget forms using a word-processing or spreadsheet program.

§ List all of your Venture’s start-up expenses. Be as specific as possible (i.e., rather than listing art supplies for mural painting at $150.00, indicate specific costs like 8 pints of colored paint at $9 per can = $72; 5 brushes at $6 each = $30; etc.). Please note that Youth Venture grants cannot be used for salaries, payments to team members or anything unnecessary to the success of your Venture. Remember that Venturers are entrepreneurial. Be creative and resourceful in finding ways to accomplish what you’ve set out to do. Accordingly, your Venture’s Action Plan should reflect that you’ve:
o Asked for donations (as many as possible!)
o Borrowed material, if possible, rather than purchased new material
o Asked for discounts, deals or “in-kind” donations when making purchases
o Done your research on costs and purchased products or services at the best value

§ List all of the income you expect your Venture to receive. Consider possible sources of income, such as fundraisers, cash donations, donated services or materials, admission fees, or revenue from selling a product or service. How will your Venture acquire funding after the start-up grant has been spent? Estimate how much your Venture will be able to raise in order to sustain itself.

notes:

1) Our name – This project will be called Misled Studios

2) Our Idea (purpose of the project, benefit to the community, etc)

We want to set up a screenprinting studio, arts workshops, a gallery, and a way to disseminate ppl’s work (store/distro) at 123 Tompkins. This will enable/empower young people, people from bed-stuy, and all over the city learn the skills and access the materials they need to develop messages and express them using various media.

Talk about our experience with the PIY workshop and how we want to do that on a bigger scale

3) Our plan – We need to finish setting up the studio, start publicizing/outreaching for it (making flyers, connecting with local artists, screenprinting in front of the space, doing an open mic/performance to set off the writing circles and the poetry workshop

4) Our Timeline –

September – finish setting up studio, make more contacts in bed stuy

October – have an open house with an open studio, open mic, and other activities to jump start the studio, writing circle, and workshops

Start structured workshops in late October

November – all the projects mentioned are running

December – workshops end in a night of performance and art exhibition

…what about the next 8 months? Starting the distro/store? Mural? After school program? Art shows and auctions? Events?

5) How we’ll maintain our project in the long term –

Membership – outreach to local youth, artists, activists through events, printing on the street in front of 123, flyers, etc

Fundraising – raise funds through other grants, selling things we make, charging studio fees, benefit shows and events, donations
Leadership – help the youth who get involved learn leadership skills and take on more responsibility to run projects, have monthly community meeting where anyone can come and give input, etc

Fri, 11/09/2007 - 6:59pm

mynweb

Posts: 490
Joined: 2006-10-31

the grant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Misled Youth Network Venture Grant

1. The name of our Venture is the 123 Printshop

2. Our Venture idea:
This past July, Misled Youth joined forces with three other grassroots organizations to create the 123 Community Space in Bed

Stuy Brooklyn. Misled Youth is working to bring a range of art programs to 123 including a free poetry workshop, a mural

project, and specifically the 123 Printshop. We have built a screen printing studio at 123 complete with a 4 color printing

press, light table, and washout booth. We are just starting to open the printshop to the local community so people can create

custom printed posters, t-shirts, and more. We believe that printing can empower people become creators of culture;

expressing their own messages, ideas and design rather than simply being passive consumers and receivers of capitalist

messages

We will have the Printshop open at least 1-2 days a week, and will help people create screens and make prints for a small

fee. Since people have also expressed interest in having us create screens and print for them, we will also offer an

affordable screen printing service. In addition, we plan to offer free workshops and educational zines to help familiarize

people with the screen printing process.

3. Our immediate action plan:
We just recently opened up the printshop to the community, and we recognized that a lot of people are not aware of the

silk-screening process. We plan to offer free educational workshops that will familiarize people with the silk screening

process and encourage them to print their own designs. We also plan on distributing how-to zines and having a diagram on the

wall explaining the process. One of our upcoming projects is our PIY workshop at the Renaissance Charter School, where we

will be explaining the silk screening process to the students and helping them develop their design. They will be using the

123 printshop to materialize their designs at the end of the week. This collaboration will introduce the students from the

Renaissance to the art of silk screening and the 123 printshop at the same time. It will also give them the tools to express

themselves in a new way while becoming a part of the 123 community. We also plan to set up internships, through City-As

School, which has curriculum that integrates resources to traditional classes. Also, we plan on pursuing connections at the

Brooklyn Free School, City and Country School, and the Renaissance Charter School.

We assess our success by our relationship with the community and the people involved in the 123 printshop. We also measure it

by the number and quality of work that is produced. We would like this to be an egalitarian space where people feel safe to

express their ideas and art while learning from each other. We feel that all people involved will benefit from this resource.

It is gratifying to see people wearing their own designs and having their artwork decorate the space. We plan to organize art

exhibits and other events to celebrate the work that comes out of this venture.
5. We will sustain the Venture by having the printshop generate income to cover the expenses for the materials. We organize

benefits such as shows, parties and art auctions to cover our rent. We will train volunteers and interns from the

neighborhood, organizations and schools to run and do the necessary processes in the printshop. We want to establish

relationships with local artists in order to network and provide assistance if they wish at the space. Misled Youth will

collaborate with the other organizations in 123 Space in making our plans a success.

Sat, 11/10/2007 - 1:44am

mynweb

Posts: 490
Joined: 2006-10-31

thanks so much for this

thanks so much for this leanne and ingrid -- let's keep working on this and posting on the forums

xo
sarah

Sun, 11/18/2007 - 1:20am

mynweb

Posts: 490
Joined: 2006-10-31

tweaked version

what do you think? Once we finalize this part, we just need to complete the timeline and the budgte and we'll be done!

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Misled Youth Network Venture Grant
1. The name of our Venture is the 123 Printshop.
2. Our Venture idea:
This past July, Misled Youth joined forces with three other grassroots organizations to create the 123 Community Space in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn. Misled Youth is working to bring a range of art programs to 123 including a free poetry workshop, a mural project, and specifically the 123 Printshop. We have built a screen printing studio at 123 complete with a 4 color printing press, light table, and washout booth. We are just starting to open the printshop to the local community so people can create custom printed posters, t-shirts, and more. We believe that printing can empower people become creators of culture, serving as an outlet for their own messages, ideas and designs, rather than simply being passive consumers and receivers of capitalist messages.
The printshop will be open at least 1-2 days a week. There will be several volunteers to help people create screens and make prints for a small fee. Since some people have expressed interest in having us create screens and print for them, we will also offer an affordable screen printing service. In addition, we plan to offer free workshops and educational zines to help familiarize people with the screen printing process.
3. Our immediate action plan:
We just recently opened up the 123 Printshop to the community, and we recognized that a lot of people are not aware of the silk-screening process. We plan to offer free educational workshops that will familiarize people with the silk screening process and encourage them to print their own designs. We also plan on distributing how-to zines and having diagrams on the wall explaining the process.
This past week we facilitated a PIY (Print It Yourself) workshop at the Renaissance Charter School, where we explained the silk screening process to the students and helped them develop their designs. They used the 123 Printshop to materialize their designs at the end of the week. This collaboration introduced the students from the Renaissance to the art of silk screening and to the 123 Printshop at the same time. It also gave them the tools to express themselves in a new way while becoming a part of the 123 community. Also, we are planning on setting up internships, through City-As School, which has curriculum that integrates internships throughout the city along with traditional classes. Also, we plan on pursuing connections at the Brooklyn Free School, City and Country School, and the Renaissance Charter School.
We assess our success by our relationship with the community and the people involved in the 123 Printshop. We also measure it by the amount and quality of work that is produced. We would like this to be an egalitarian space where people feel safe to express their ideas and art while learning from each other. We feel that all people involved will benefit from this resource.
It is gratifying to see people wearing their own designs and having their artwork decorate the space. We plan to organize art exhibits and other activities to celebrate the work that comes out of this venture.
4) Our Timeline:
5) How we’ll maintain our project in the long term:
We will sustain the Venture by having the printshop generate income through fees and selling items that we print to cover the expenses for the materials. We will also organize benefits such as shows, parties and art auctions to cover our rent. We will train volunteers and interns from the neighborhood, organizations and schools to run the printshop. We want to establish relationships with local artists in order to network and provide support at 123. Misled Youth will collaborate with the other organizations at 123 in making our plans a success.

Mon, 11/19/2007 - 12:52am

nick

Posts: 13
Joined: 2007-01-28

I think we're a shoe-in

i think that application is really well-written. thanks everyone who wrote/edited it!

i want to start working on getting a HUGE grant in addition to this, I posted about it on the 123 website (you're going to have to make an account and be added to the administrative "123 group" to see it, so just make an account and I'll add you really quick). basically, it's 5 sorta similar questions, they want a 2-6 page proposal, and they're offering $10-$20k, which would be sooo amazing to get. nobody's really responding (or using the forums at all), so it'd be cool to get a discussion going on there about it if you're interested.

again, thanks for putting all this together.