Short Summary
Greetings!
In 1990, the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation was
created as the only 501c3 organization of its kind to discover, develop and
honor Black authors of fine literature, nonfiction, and poetry.
Named after Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God) and Richard Wright (Native Son) - two literary icons from the Harlem Renaissance -
Hurston/Wright has mentored and awarded hundreds of teen and adult writers
across the country with workshops, financial awards and scholarships, writing competitions, and other
in-kind support.
2015 will make Hurston/Wright’s 25th year of service, and
we're asking our many supporters, and fans of reading to celebrate with us by contributing
towards this campaign to ensure the foundation’s fiscal strength.
Help Hurston/Wright raise $25,000 towards another 25 years
of great programs for the literary community, and launching our dream of creating literary
and cultural center headquartered in Washington, D.C. for award-winning and
aspiring Black writers.
What We Need & What You Get
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OUR GOAL: $25,000 - But, it's always great to surpass your goal ;-)
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YOUR GIFTS: $25 DONORS - Shoutouts on Hurston/Wright's Facebook, Twitter and Instagram sites. $50 DONORS - The social media shoutouts and an author signed copy of an autographed copy of It’s All Love: Black Writers on Soul Mates, Family and Friends - an anthology published
by Broadway books to benefit the Hurston/Wright Foundation. $100 DONORS - The social media shoutouts and an author signed copy of
an autographed copy of It’s All
Love and an autographed copy of Gumbo -
an anthology of 73 Black writers edited by Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris and
published by Doubleday to benefit the Hurston/Wright Foundation. $250 DONORS - The social media shoutouts and
autographed copies of It’s All
Love, Gumbo, and The Butler: A Witness to History by Wil Haygood. $500 DONORS - The social media shoutouts and autographed copies of It’s All
Love, Gumbo, The Butler, and Pulitzer-Prize winner, The Warmth of Other Suns The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson and a ticket to attend The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards Ceremony in October 2015. $1,000 DONORS - The social media shoutouts, autographed books, two tickets to The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards
Ceremony and 25th Anniversary Celebration in October 2015, and guest attendance at our Writers' Week panels, seminars and readings during July 2015. $5,000 DONORS -
All of the above and four invitations to a special VIP dinner with the Hurston/Wright 2015 Legacy Awards honorees in October 2015.
Your Impact
- Helping the Hurston/Wright Foundation celebrate its 25th anniversary and sustain its fiscal strength for years to come.
- Supporting Hurston/Wright's dream of creating a literary and cultural space headquartered in Washington, D.C. that will be a home for the foundation's programs and events, and for Black writers creating ,
researching, and writing new work.
- Providing monetary awards to talented college students who excel in writing engaging works of fiction and poetry.
- Financially supporting a nonprofit that has honored literary greats such as Nikki Giovanni, Junot Diaz, Edward P. Jones, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Edwidge Danicat, Wil Haygood and Percival Everett.
Please share this campaign with your family, friends and colleagues who love award-winning literature, nonfiction and poetry, and spread the word via Facebook and Twitter.