Workshop Houston 2011 Annual Campaign!
A message from the Annual Campaign Committee:
With your help, this can be Workshop Houston’s most exciting year yet! Since its founding in 2003, Workshop Houston has provided hundreds of youth with creative, technical and educational programs, and fostered a vibrant community of people of all ages through its shops:
Bike Shop (do-it-yourself bike repair)
Chopper Shop (welding and metal fabrication)
Beat Shop (hip-hop music production)
Style Shop (fashion design)
Scholar Shop (tutoring and academic enrichment)
After a big year in 2010, Workshop Houston is continuing to strengthen and expand the youth development programs of the shops in 2011. Through specialized curriculum and activities for students in grades 6-8, the organization is making a real difference for youth at a vulnerable age.
So, how can you help? Please consider making a contribution to the 2011 Annual Campaign to show your support for the innovation and industry of the youth of Third Ward. A donation of any size can make a real impact and is genuinely appreciated. With the help of a caring and dedicated community, Workshop Houston’s programs will continue to provide youth with the support and resources that can change their lives. We hope you will join us in supporting this unique and vital organization.
Sincerely,
Helen Winkler Fosdick
Tina & Josh Zulu
Emily Grenader
Nyala Wright
Mark Horn
Workshop Houston 2011 Annual Campaign Committee
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The Annual Campaign is an important part of building a strong community of supporters for Workshop Houston’s participants and programs. Individual contributions are pivotal to our Workshop Houston’s ability to offer the creative, technical and educations resources that impact the lives of so many youth in Third Ward. Please consider contributing to the Annual Campaign by making an online donation to Workshop Houston!
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Why support Workshop Houston? More on what motivates 2011 Annual Campaign Committee members.
I fell in love with Workshop Houston on my first visit to its original program, the Third Ward Bike Shop. I walked into a happy, active space with young people working on bikes and Zach Moser, whom I knew, holding a bent bicycle wheel with a big grin on his face. He explained all the exciting activity and introduced me to some of the participants and other founders. I started taking visitors to see this great, heartwarming new addition to Houston and have watched them grow in substance and strength into a welcoming, thoughtfully organized resource for the youth community in Third Ward. In 2010, I gladly joined the Board of Directors.
Workshop Houston has grown quickly with a great staff and wonderful volunteers, who teach students to enjoy, understand and believe in their abilities to do well. I have an enormous admiration for this young group so deeply dedicated to providing support, expanded opportunities and alternative definitions of success to the youth in their community every day.
- Helen Winkler Fosdick
I have been a volunteer since fall 2009, serving in the Scholar and Style Shops. The best thing about working with the talented middle school students in the program is helping them realize their potential. When a student who used to be stumped at fractions exclaims, “Wow, this is actually kind of easy,” I know he can excel in a math class that he once believed impossible. In the Style Shop, students earn their own sketchbooks by completing a series of basic drawing assignments. Workshop Houston supports and rewards students in a creative atmosphere, motivates them to do well in middle and high school, and prepares them for the challenges of college.
- Emily Grenader
I am honored to support Workshop Houston and the youth we serve through our programs, which address students’ needs using hands-on projects that have tangible output for kids to see, touch, hear and appreciate. This is a very special platform for mentoring and nurturing those who need it most – our kids. The empowerment students feel through their accomplishments at Workshop Houston helps them to grow and thrive in all aspects of their lives. It is my hope for children everywhere and from every walk of life to have a safe, positive place to play and learn. Here in Houston, this unique program is working to make this hope a reality and helping our youth to fulfill their incredible potential every day.
- Mark Horn
We discovered Workshop Houston when the organization was first getting started as the Third Ward Bike Shop, a great resource where you could always see kids working on bikes. Over the years, we’ve seen this impressive youth development organization grow into an incredible program that offers underprivileged kids a positive environment for creative learning opportunities; a place where kids who are lacking support can get the academic help and mentoring they need to succeed in school and beyond. As a non-profit organization fueled by the passion of its founders, staff, supporters and the essential contributions of caring people like you, Workshop Houston provides these opportunities to kids at no cost. The staff does an excellent job of focusing on academic achievement in the Scholar Shop and combining what the kids are learning in school with their activities in the shops, making learning fun and relevant. Knowing that our sponsorship and involvement is having a positive, lasting impact on the lives of so many kids makes Workshop Houston one of our favorite organizations to support. We hope you will make it one of your favorites, too!
-Tina and Josh Zulu
I first came into contact with Workshop Houston in 2007 as a volunteer in the Scholar Shop. It quickly became apparent to me the extreme importance of the educational, vocational and creative opportunities provided for the children of Third Ward at the organization. The diversity and intelligence of the programs as well as the dedication and hard work of the staff and volunteers make it one of Houston’s most worthy non-profits serving youth.
- Nyala Wright
