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- What is the name your organization?
- SeeSaw Studio
- What type of work does your organization do?
- SeeSaw Studio provides workshops and apprenticeships for youth ages 12-18 focusing on Design, Entrepreneurship, Art and Life Skills.
SeeSaw's program is designed to address the lack of opportunities for career training in art & design for low-income youth and the chronically high teen drop-out rates. We promote confidence, collaboration, creativity and community.
- What area of the country do you work in?
- Durham, North Carolina
- Who do you work with?
- SeeSaw Studio works with teens ages 12-18 years old from all walks of life, with a special commitment on recruiting and developing youth from underserved communities.
- What is the main obstacle your organization encounters that prevents you from doing your work most effectively?
- Right now our biggest obstacle is trying to secure permanent space to conduct our program and develop our vision to its greatest capacity.
- What do you hope to gain from joining the Rural Innovation Network?
- Partnership, Information, Other
- If you listed "Other" above, please list specifics below:
- Assistance to identify dependable and dynamic youth-serving organizations, located in outlying areas of Durham, where we can establish satellite sites for regular entry-level workshops.
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Michelle Gonzales's Blog
The NonProfit Mafia Blog, Issue 2, Volume 1: It Doesn't Matter If You're Close to Dying
This week I spent several days at Duke fighting a terrible bout with the flu. I've been sick for several months, but have been pushing myself in order to earn my stripes as E.D. of this organization. The last straw for my son when he came home from school and found me lying across my laptop, trying to make a grant deadline, sweating and throwing up (but still typing!). He and my boyfriend carried me into the car and rushed me to the E.R. I had almost 105 temp and my heart rate was 144. I was str… Continue
Posted on March 8, 2008 at 8:59am —
The NonProfit Mafia Blog, Issue 1, Volume 1
Over the last two years, I have made strides to examine what is important in my life. I have consistently purged what I either clearly knew was toxic, or at least what I thought I might be making toxic by my presence. I have watched, listened, emulated like a budgie nodding his head in imitation. The result of this is to find myself on a perch of my own making; to be fully in charge a nonprofit organization at last.
Yet to be fully accountable for the shelf-life of an arts organization is not a… Continue
Yet to be fully accountable for the shelf-life of an arts organization is not a… Continue
Posted on February 27, 2008 at 12:41am — 2 Comments
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