In 2012-13, over 3500 underserved youth nationwide will engage in this student-centered, project-based, blended learning education innovation as an integrated offering of their standard in-school curriculum. To support this education transformation, educators and administrators engage in in-person workshops that empower them with the skills and knowledge to turn their classrooms into dynamic digital learning labs. A $1000 Big Wheel Brigade and GOOD grant will assist in allowing educators to attend the training and become digital learning leaders.

The $1000 will help provide much needed funding to help make this project a reality. This money will go towards covering all the material costs of building an earthbench as well as a stipend for all the time it will take for me to lead the project. These materials costs include wood framing for an earthbench roof and for the construction materials such as sand and gravel and the transportation costs to transport these materials. It will also provide a source of compensation for the time I will invest into this earthbench project.

GOOD's funding will help to support this project by allowing us to purchase a video camera for the program, to hire a professional videographer to work with our students, to purchase materials for props and costumes, and to provide food for the students.

Like it or not, people judge you within 3 seconds of meeting you or visiting your website. You never know who is going to find you where, so it’s mission critical to present a consistent face to the world, so you can transform first impressions into lasting relationships. This fun, interactive workshop leads participants step-by-step through defining their career goals and creating a memorable personal brand that will open lucrative new professional opportunities. Marisa Murgatroyd & Live Your Message helps entrepreneurs build a lucrative brand and web presence that positions them as a leading authority in their fields. This award will enable her to share these powerful pro strategies FREE, both LIVE and on through video on her website.

This workshop series will span the next few months, and we have already begun the process of building at our first workshop of the series where we made mud bricks (see photos on our Facebook page!). Our budget is very tight and this $1,000 will allow us to purchase the right materials that we need for our building, so that it is strong and of good quality. Among the materials we need are mud and sand, bamboo, some tools, used windows from the scrapyard, and materials for building a green roof.

The money will provide the instructor's fee, and pay for printing costs for the anthology. I'm hoping to make the class free or low-cost to participants. I'll be collaborating with Kearny Street Workshop, an Asian Pacific American arts nonprofit with a writing program, to offer this workshop. Their classes are not restricted to Asian Pacific Islanders, and they do have an established audience and track record. They'll be providing support in publicizing the class and producing the anthology.

We empower people with practical ecological skills and solutions that they can create in their own backyards. We invite local members of the community to apprentice and learn with us, and then take the idea to people in their own communities. $1,000 would go toward kicking off our apprentice program and sponsoring workshop materials. The materials cost for one 16"x16" box is $40 and includes a build sheet, wood, quality amended soil, and organic seedlings. We would love to partner with GOOD to create new portable farm square footage in our communities!

Individuals will be given the resources they need to empower themselves to heal, restore, and maintain optimum psychological and physical health. The spiritual city of Miami will provide yoga, meditation, energy and holistic healing classes to sustain a better quality of living on earth. International and local spiritual leaders will be invited to attend. Ambrosia will have an art exhibit, humanitarian performers, organic food and cooking classes, gardening programs and more! Heart for Humanity will host this workshop to restore living wellness through education and fun activities. These efforts will benefit society through unity, sustainable health and energy renewal.

Thanks to the overwhelming generosity of our volunteers, all donations go directly toward purchasing the supplies - paper, crayons, binding materials, toner - we need to run our Storytelling and Bookmaking workshops three times a week throughout the school year. All of 826NYC's workshops are free for NYC students and public schools.

I do not have a video camera that would allow me to load some tutorials for people and children everywhere to see how easy it is to create art from aluminum cans....I would also go to schools and camps to show the process as well.

With the funding of $1,000, we can invite Junior Achievement to teach the best financial literacy course possible as part of the College Preparation Course, significantly influencing the lives of the workshop’s participants. They will learn fundamental elements of their personal finances--earnings, saving and investing, budgeting, credit, and risk management--and, consequently, be able to apply these skills in their daily lives. Our yearlong workshop costs $12,000, and we sponsor high schools if they lack the sufficient budget to implement the workshop. We have raised 85% of the cost from sponsors such as Brigham Young University ($7,400), The Rocky Mountain Power Foundation ($1,500), Apple ($600), Zion’s Bank ($500), and so forth.

Supplies: herbs, beeswax, honey, essential oils, jars, alcohol. Honorarium: herbalists teaching the workshop & creating educational materials. Space: held at Third Root Community Health Center - an accessible, empowering community space for all.

Alternative Network for Employee Wellness has successfully spearheaded and co-convened events in the past years to sustain community activism and social change. We hope that the funds received will give us access to facilitate "ANEW Roundtable for Leaders", a bi-monthly 8 week series where we collectively work develop practices that value the organizational leadership of those we serve. While we collaborate with other organizations that support our endeavor to provide quality resources for our constituents’ Professional Quality of Life, ANEW-NY is a self-starter and projects the funds will aid in its structural development such web management and marketing strategies.

Turning Butterfly Project into treatment center.

The workshop will be hosted in Letang/Kathmandu-Nepal. Letang is in a rural area. Children there have not been expose to learning the tools and skills of art that is vital to communicate to a wider audience. The project cost is $3200. The $1000 funds will be used toward buying art supplies. This funds will be a great help in turning the workshop into a reality for the children. Your support will be remembered by the children of Letang. THANK YOU.

The funds will allow us to engage San Diegans who care about their local biological diversity, which includes birds who depend on our backyards. We'll be able to provide the supplies to build a minimum of ten birdbaths, hosted by the real-life inventor of this ingenious solar-powered bath! We'll allow for additional participants to attend the workshop with their own supplies, and will provide lots of other information for creating a wildlife-friendly garden, including suggestions for native plants to attract birds.

$1000 will provide funds for outreach materials including large-print brochures and fliers. It will help us provide transportation for attendees to and from a local senior community (we live in a high-poverty area with poor public transportation, and many of our constituents lack reliable transporation). It will also help purchase materials to help senior gardeners, including large-handled planting tools, padding for chairs, platforms to raise beds to seated height, seedlings, seeds, and pots for attendees to take home and start a window or front stoop garden. Finally, it will underwrite the cost of a healthy lunch, afternoon refreshments and the materials for a healthy cooking demo.

Advertising (1 of 2): to parents whom must bring one of their children, without advertising no one will come. Advertising (2 of 2): to volunteers who will follow up with parent after the workshop and help with workshop. Besides the workshop Following up with parents is the most important part; this will give accountability which will increase the chances that the information will become daily action. Venue: A place to meet Materials: hand outs for parents and children. Food: If financial feasible, serve a healthy snack. Nutrition is an important part of education.

The funding will cover the following costs: - Supplies; paints, brushes, etc. - Teaching Artist wages

The GOOD funds will help instill an understanding, appreciation and connection to the natural world at a young age creating better stewards of the environmental for future generations. Funds from GOOD will be used to offer this workshop FREE to 100 underserved elementary age students from Southwestern Pennsylvania schools helping them meet the state Academic Standards of Environment & Ecology, the purchase of native wildflower seeds from a local nursery and to the purchase of 5 three-man slingshots to disperse the seeds. The compost will be donated in-kind by the local township of Upper St. Clair.