Online Press Kit


Skilled Volunteers Can Help Charities Get Results and Stretch Slim Budget

The Chronicle of Philanthropy, June 2010

 

With the jobless rate still hovering around 10 percent, larger numbers of laid-off business executives are turning to volunteering as a way to make a difference to society-and to retool their skills and perhaps change career paths. This is a godsend for the overburdened charities that need this help now more than ever. Read more


Profile of Arts to Grow

If Magazine, May 2010

 

Children in school are most often instructed to solve problems given a set of instructions to arrive at the solution. The Arts provide a special place for kids to create something that is uniquely theirs, a vehicle in which they can develop individual expressive skills giving the possibility for children with differing learning styles and abilities to find something of their own and experience success. Read more

Making skills-based volunteering work

Philanthropy Journal, January 2010

As the recession drags on and unemployment rates climb ever higher, there have never been more skilled and experienced professionals who are available, willing, even eager, to work for free. Nonprofits would be smart to seize this opportunity and figure out how to leverage these volunteer resources in a way that benefits their organization, the communities they serve and the volunteers themselves. Read more


Resident Artist Helps Children in Newark Explore Theatre Arts

Featured on USA Today & Ground Report, July 2009

Theater artist, Kent Jackman is one of the Arts to Grow resident teaching artists, and the non-profit serves over 300 children ages 5-14, through nine organizational partnerships including The Academy Street Firehouse. Read more


NYC Theatre Artist Draws Inspiration from Teaching Inner-City Children

Featured in Seattle Pi Blog, Ground Report Blog, Women's Online Magazine - May 2009

Patricia Runcie is a teaching artist with Arts to Grow, a New Jersey based non-profit that provides inner-city children in New York exposure to the visual, literary and performing arts by partnering with local public schools and community-based organizations. Read more 

Gendance Newsletter

 

Arts to Grow is proud to have sponsorship arrangements with Elizabeth Barry & Associates. "I am honored to say that supporting Arts to Grow through 2009 is going to be one of the greatest accomplishments that we can do to give back this year," says Elizabeth Barry, president of the marketing company.




Featured Posts:

 

Profile of Mallory King

Founder of Arts to Grow







Using the ‘Arts to Grow' and Enrich Harlem's Youth

Uptown Flavor Blog, August 2008

As arts education programs continue to lose funding in schools, Arts to Grow, a non-profit organization that offers free art classes to low-income youth, uses the arts and artistic expression as tools to empower and educate. For the last four weeks, Arts to Grow has provided free summer art classes to children at Harlem RBI, a youth development organization in East Harlem. 

 

‘Arts to Grow' Show, in Academy Street Firehouse

The Daily Newarker Blog, August 2008

 

On August 14th I attended the "culminating show" of the Arts to Grow summer art program at the Academy Street Firehouse. Read more

 

Growing a Nonprofit with Mallory King

New York Women's Social Entrepreneurs (NYWSE) Blog, July 2008

After 20 years of experience working as a nonprofit professional in youth development and arts education with organizations like the YMCA and the Big Sister Association, I was inspired to found Arts to Grow from the ground up. I witnessed the power of arts learning to change kids' outlooks on life, to open doors to new experiences, to harness their creative power and get them excited about learning. Read more