Dear friend of the Grrls Literary Activism Workshop,

 

I’m hoping you’ll consider dedicating your Arizona tax credit to the Kore Press Grrls Literary Activism project for 2009! We believe in educating our girls, our future leaders, about the power of the human voice and the power of their words to have a positive impact on our world.

 

The Grrls project is going strong, thanks in large part to the help of people like you who care. Starting in February and running for 13 weeks, girls from various high schools around Tucson will convene once a week to write together, cultivate their writer’s voice and work with a faciliator and guest artists (videographer, dancer, and other writers) to develop literary actions in the community. Also running from February through April is our pilot one-on-one mentoring program where we pair grrls with writers and writing professionals to work on a portfolio together and attend a monthly genre workship.

 

As you know, the Arizona Tax Credit program allows Arizona residents to designate up to $200 of their state income tax for educational purposes. This is not a tax deduction, it’s an actual tax credit, which means your tax bill for 2009 is reduced by the full amount you give. Our special collaboration with City High School makes this possible.

 

This year, in addition to your tax credit designation, I’d like to ask a special favor. Would you pass along to a friend a copy of this information? If each of our tax credit donors can find one additional person to join her, we’ll be that much stronger. Still in the early stages of this project (we’re in our third full year), it’s truly important to build a solid and wide base of support. I’m confident we can do it: as engaged and caring citizens, we’re expert at gathering resources!

 

Attached is information about the Project. Along with this information is the City High tax credit form – please print one for yourself and send one to a friend. The deadline to write your check and mail it to City High is December 31. Thank you for helping these girls!

 

Warmly,

 

Lisa Bowden

Publisher

 

PS: Spouses as well as partners filing separately can each designate $200, so you can have twice the impact by persuading your sweetheart to join you.