Friend of SCSW,
As donor you make what we do possible! More funding means
- more materials
- more projects
- more hands on deck
- more high school interns
- more kids and families served!
Click the link for the full story of the past year at SCSW. Thanks for making it all possible!
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2024 Donation Request Link Here (pdf - proper formatting and photos!)
text only:
Friends of the Salinas Community Science Workshop,
It’s giving season again, so I’d like to take a quick look back on our accomplishments since last year in hopes of inspiring your continued support! We:
- Served up around 50,000 engagements to more than 5000 unduplicated kids and family members in the 23-24 school year.
- Rolled out our mobile unit, the 40 ft Science Workshop on Wheels, to two sites weekly as well as to many schools and other locations.
- Took kids backpacking in the Ventana Wilderness and rafting on the south fork of the American River.
- Assisted 7th and 8th grade teachers to amp up hands-on projects for their students.
- Facilitated middle school MESA students to win the regional contest.
- Provided complete tools-in-the-hand kits for hundreds of kids in several programs
- Put on themed Science Workshop Family Nights each month for families of our drop-in programs.
- Run a open structure STEAM program for girls each Wednesday at El Sausal Middle School.
- Supported hundreds of new projects from the incredible minds of our students.
- Employed 6 high school aged interns to mentor younger kids as we mentor them.
We were hit with our share of problems as well. We lost 3 excellent staff. Two new ones are now going strong, but we are still looking for a co-director – please spread the word: Position announcement here! We also lost a couple of contracts we’d had for years, and are struggling to get grants and other contracts to fill in the gaps. We still pride ourselves in being a scrappy, thrifty operation, getting the bulk of our materials from the junk heap, but of course some necessities require cold, hard cash.
It’s been easy to see the bright side of our challenges. Even as we work to make ends meet, we are experiencing record numbers of kids at our drop-in hours, full of eager, creative energy and inspiring us to keep on doing what we’re doing.
All in all, SCSW continues to be an efficient, effective organization, fined tuned to offer our community the unique opportunities of tools-in-the-hand making and free exploration of the world with science. We complement what schools are doing and provide resources otherwise unavailable.
This giving season I hope you’ll find enough in your slush fund to support the kids and families we serve! You make it all happen!
Thanks!
Curt, Arturo, Sebastian and Maleah
www.communityscienceworkshops.org
youtube: @Salinas Community Science Workshop
facebook: @salinascsw
(We weren’t able to work with MC Gives this year, but your donations are still tax deductible and we’re planning to join the fine work that MC Gives does again next year.)
Please make checks payable to:
Community Initiatives - SCSW 6411
PO Box 45515
San
Francisco, CA 94145-0515
1155 E. Alisal St., Salinas CA 93905 831-228-9861
Salinas Community Science Workshop is a fiscally sponsored project of
Community Initiatives, EIN 94-3255070
Member of the Global Alliance of Community Science Workshops
