How we do it

• Partner with professional researchers to research the impact of art and community engagement on individuals and communities

• Build working relationships with community-based organizations, and citywide institutions

• Building meaningful relationships with people by door to door, living room to living room, corner to corner community organizing

• Recruit volunteers and volunteers and more volunteers

• Provide workshops, training, and programmatic support for community based organizations and institutions in the areas of community organizing, youth leadership development, project management, and community engagement

• Use publishing as a tool to increase resident voice and inform public policies

• Through the implementation of youth leadership programs that have proven track records of increasing student involvement in schools and community over the long-term

• Implementing out of school literary arts programs for youth to support their emotional, social, and cognitive development