As many of you know, I have been on a mission to get our writing incubator up and running. We have since been incorporated by the Lillian Wright Simpson Foundation and will be one of their programs to help promote community engagement through social enterprise.
For those of you who don't know, this non-profit is named after the late grandmother of our founder, K.A. Simpson, who passed away in 2010 and lived her life to the fullest. As a single mother, she raised five children in Newport, KY during the 1960s, 70's and 80's while creating a stable environment through hard work and community engagement.
BookMark Online and BookMark Publishing, have also been incorporated into the Foundation's family of services, where a portion of the proceeds are directly donated to the Foundation's community engagement efforts...that's efforts plural. In addition to our program, the Foundation will also host the following initiatives:
Pub_Inc is a resource center both for new and professional authors. Our mission is to challenge authors to envision a future of entrepreneurship while providing them with the tools to make their publishing dream a reality.DreamChaser Mentoring provides youth mentoring to young male adults in the Greater Cincinnati inner city. Professional training will be provided for youth during the summer months and the school year.
High School Scholarships
The program goal is to assist recently graduated high school students from the Covington Independent, Newport Independent or Cincinnati Public School Districts.
We would love to say that leprechauns & fairy god-mothers could make my non-profit come to life, but we need some funding too, but every penny counts. Please take a few minutes and visit my crowd funding page and consider giving to help make this happen!
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