Love Speaks Fall Tour

[sarita louise]

Love Speaks is going to be actively supporting Brett Dennen's tour in the fall.
So far we'll be in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, LA, Denver, Chicago, Baltimore, NYC and Boston. Please let us know if you have ideas for great non-profits that we can support!

xoxo,
Sarita!!!

[June]

For the San Francisco Bay Area, it'd be great to support Global Exchange and Art in Action. Please let me know if you're interested in connecting with them.
http://www.globalexchange.org
http://artinactioncamp.org/

[Nick Young]

Sarita! Hey, it's Nick from Mosaic. Hope you are great! I was just clicking around on Brett's site and I stumbled on Love Speaks. I'm not sure you remember chatting about it way back when in Boston, but I'm launching a new travel/immigrant integration non-profit.

www.kindredproject.org

Things are gaining momentum, and it turns out that--happy coincidence--our two launch cities are Chicago and Boston. Our first two trips will run in summer 2009, but outreach efforts are already in motion. My volunteer committees in both cities would jump at the opportunity to rep Kindred at one of Brett's shows. His audience is pretty much our target demographic all in one room.

Let me know if it's a possibility. Even if it's not, drop me a line! Tons o' love.

- Nick

[sarita louise]

hey nick,

let's do this!
email me, [e-mail] :)

logistic time.
(my favorite)

[sarita louise]

wow, aaron...

thanks for the tip!
i get so inspired hearing about everything that's happening to make our world, safer, healthier, more nutritious :)
brett will be through columbus in '09 so we'll make sure to link up with local matter!

thanks again!

[andy maynard]

my nephew has alopecia areata, it is an immune disorder that has caused him to lose all of his hair from head to toe and he is only five.i have been growin my hair to donate towards his cause. i want to try to figure out a way to raise money for more research. if you have any ideas or could help me in any way that would be awesome

your friend andy maynard

[bree ZHeet]

Right here in Los Angeles is Inside Out Community Arts. We're located on Lincoln just north of Venice but we serve middle school youth across LA with FREE after school arts programs. We use a series of theater based workshops to teach children from difference backgrounds to work together to create a play they eventually perform in front of an audience of 500 people. The kids learn about writing, choreography, music, story telling, conflict resolution, and then together they write a play about a topic they're passionate about.
In the past they've covered drugs, sex, teen pregnancy, gang violence, immigration, family abuse, etc. And remember, these are MIDDLE SCHOOLERS!!!

I was substitute teaching at a school in Lincoln Heights a few months ago when the school was shut down due to gang violence in the area. I remember we had to keep the kids behind the school doors and walk them one by one to their parents because there were helicopters overhead, s.w.a.t. in the neighborhood, and a few people were actually killed in the multiple shoot outs that happened in that neighborhood that day. At that it all seemed so real!!!

I couldn't help but think that the gang bangers who killed each other probably wouldn't have chosen that route if they had an organization like Inside Out when they were growing up. Know what I mean?

I've been with the organization for almost three years and I'm now on the board of directors and serve as the chair for the resource development committee. The organization has been around for 13 years but it's finally taking off and we now able to expand to other countries.

One organization called Kids off the Kerb in Melbourne, Australia has decided to fundraise $50K in order to bring Inside Out to their program. I think I'll be going down to help with workshop training in May 2009, assuming the fundraising goes well.

We also have organizations, orphanages, schools, and people in South Africa, Israel, and Canada who want to do the same. What do you think? Sounds amazing doesn't it!?!?

We can talk more whenever!