Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts Education, Children & Youth, Education, Educational Services
Mission: Drawchange is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to aid global change by supplying the world's children with empowering art experiences. Together we can provide the programs to allow them to effectively visualize a better life for themselves.
Results: We continue to empower over 1200+ children per year to expand their creativity while knowing they are capable of achieving anything they can imagine. We have ongoing programs with local homeless shelters, refugee communities, orphanages and asylum-seeking welcome centers in Atlanta, Tucson, Orlando, Puerto Rico, Louisville, and abroad, where we help children ignite their innate creative spark while imagining their dreams so they can become reality. The “drawchange Blueprint” includes our entire art-therapy based curriculum, volunteer handbook and training resources, necessary art supplies, management tips, step-by-step video instructions, access to our staff of Art Therapists, and daily contact with founder/CEO, Jennie Lobato. We continue to expand our staff as we now employ more employees than we ever have before and are continuing to add more hours for our dedicated staff. We have successfully established a self-sustaining international program in Costa Rica where the children of Fatima School receive art in their daily curriculum through drawchange. We have additionally begun a 6 year partnership to build a self-sustaining program in Kara Kore, Ethiopia, where we empower children living in one of the poorest city centers in Addis Ababa. In the Fall of 2021, we are thrilled to begin our MX/AZ Welcome Center Program, where we will train staff to conduct art therapy-based programs for children who have recently crossed the Mexican border into the United States. Along with our domestic and international art therapy-based programs, we have developed a year-long fundraiser, Interactive Kids Art Camp, which welcomes all children from our communities in Atlanta and Orlando to participate in art based after school programs and summer camps.
Target demographics: 5-10 year old homeless, refugee, asylum-seeking, poverty-stricken children
Direct beneficiaries per year: 1500 children +
Geographic areas served: Atlanta, Kentucky, Orlando, Arizona, Ethiopia, Costa Rica : Homeless and impoverished youth
Programs: - Ongoing art therapy-based programs in homeless shelters and community centers to help children visualize their dreams and emerge from poverty. . - Art Beyond Borders-take volunteer groups on international volunteer projects.
Mission: Drawchange is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to aid global change by supplying the world's children with empowering art experiences. Together we can provide the programs to allow them to effectively visualize a better life for themselves.
Results: We continue to empower over 1200+ children per year to expand their creativity while knowing they are capable of achieving anything they can imagine. We have ongoing programs with local homeless shelters, refugee communities, orphanages and asylum-seeking welcome centers in Atlanta, Tucson, Orlando, Puerto Rico, Louisville, and abroad, where we help children ignite their innate creative spark while imagining their dreams so they can become reality. The “drawchange Blueprint” includes our entire art-therapy based curriculum, volunteer handbook and training resources, necessary art supplies, management tips, step-by-step video instructions, access to our staff of Art Therapists, and daily contact with founder/CEO, Jennie Lobato. We continue to expand our staff as we now employ more employees than we ever have before and are continuing to add more hours for our dedicated staff. We have successfully established a self-sustaining international program in Costa Rica where the children of Fatima School receive art in their daily curriculum through drawchange. We have additionally begun a 6 year partnership to build a self-sustaining program in Kara Kore, Ethiopia, where we empower children living in one of the poorest city centers in Addis Ababa. In the Fall of 2021, we are thrilled to begin our MX/AZ Welcome Center Program, where we will train staff to conduct art therapy-based programs for children who have recently crossed the Mexican border into the United States. Along with our domestic and international art therapy-based programs, we have developed a year-long fundraiser, Interactive Kids Art Camp, which welcomes all children from our communities in Atlanta and Orlando to participate in art based after school programs and summer camps.
Target demographics: 5-10 year old homeless, refugee, asylum-seeking, poverty-stricken children
Direct beneficiaries per year: 1500 children +
Geographic areas served: Atlanta, Kentucky, Orlando, Arizona, Ethiopia, Costa Rica : Homeless and impoverished youth
Programs: - Ongoing art therapy-based programs in homeless shelters and community centers to help children visualize their dreams and emerge from poverty. . - Art Beyond Borders-take volunteer groups on international volunteer projects.
info@drawchange.org
215 Chester Avenue #119, Atlanta, GA 30316
404-402-1567
Arts & Culture
Atlanta
