Donors 2024

Funding Opportunities

Writing For Good

The Porch facilitates bi-weekly free creative writing workshops for women in addiction recovery through our Mending Hearts partnership and for unhoused LGBTQIA+ teens at Nashville LAUNCH PAD’s shelter. We wish to continue these partnerships as well as pursue new opportunities to bring expressive writing as a therapeutic practice to underserved communities.

$5000 will fund 24 two-hour classes at Mending Hearts

$3000 will fund 24 one-hour classes at Nashville LAUNCH PAD

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visiting writers series

The Porch wishes to build upon its existing visiting writers program in order to further contribute to Nashville’s ever-rising profile as a vibrant literary city and provide its community members access to nationally-acclaimed authors. Previous authors have included U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, National Book Award finalists Lauren Groff and Deesha Philyaw, and Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown, among others. Excellent opportunity for brand visibility.

$2000 to $20,000 (based on author profile) subsidizes speaker fees and travel.

swing

Launching its first edition in summer 2023, Swing aspires to be a literary magazine with the energy and verve of its home city. Published twice-yearly in both print and online editions, Swing offers opportunities for emerging Porch writers to publish alongside established literary figures. Given the deep experience of the editorial leadership, this collection aims to be a home for diverse writers across the South and beyond. Excellent opportunity for brand visibility.

$10,000 title sponsorship underwrites design and production of one issue of the magazine.

adopt a school

The Porch wishes to deliver creative writing workshops to Metro Nashville Public Schools through the course of a school year at no cost to the students or schools. Creative writing is a powerful tool toward improved literacy and written expression.

$1000 adopts a MNPS classroom for the year.

$2000 adopts an entire MNPS grade for the year.

immigrants write

Now in its eighth year, The Porch hopes to continue offering and to expand the Immigrants Write free program well into the future. It also plans to continue publishing a representative anthology of work that features participant voices from over 25 countries living in middle Tennessee.

$2500 provides the grant match for one year of programming.

$2400 covers editorial fees as well as design and production of the anthology.

scholarships

The Porch wishes to expand need-based access to its courses by increasing scholarship funding for low-income participants and individuals from historically underrepresented communities.

$5000 will fund 20 full tuition scholarships for both multi-week adult classes and youth summer camp.

$1000 will fund 10 hours of one-on-one editorial services for two BIPOC students.

$1000 will fund 4 full scholarships for a combination of workshops and camp.

the porch prize

The Porch’s annual writing contest offers awards in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Nominees and winners are recognized at the fundraising event on May 4, featuring U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. Excellent opportunity for brand visibility.

A $2000 title sponsorship underwrites prize money and judging fees.

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