A YEAR OF FIRSTS

2019 Achievements

• Created a youth and young adult section at the barn 

• Designed a high-school poetry workshop for the Birch Wathen Lenox School in New York City

• Held our first Catskill Lit retreat at The Ashokan Center, drawing 70 people over four days

• Received our first grant for a free public reading

• Held our first house concert

• Organized a Donald Lev section in our library at the invitation of Mr. Lev’s estate

• Acquired fiscal sponsor Innovative Charitable Initiatives, Inc.

• Became a member of the New York Council for Nonprofits

• Held 24 online workshops serving 200+ poets

• Supported 20+ teaching artists

• Hosted eight poetry workshops at the barn

• Added an additional 1,000 books to our lending library

select highlights from the past year

The Poetry Barn is a fiscally-sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a 501(c)(3) organization, making your donation fully tax-deductible to the extent provided by law. We are grateful for each and every gift, and will direct it toward scholarships, honorariums, infrastructure, community events, and capacity building.

The Poetry Barn is also a fiscally-sponsored project of Innovative Charitable Initiatives, Inc.(ICI.), part of The New York Council of Nonprofits family and a 501(c)(3) organization.

Thank you for mailing your fully tax-deductible donations made out to:

ICI/The Poetry Barn

to:

Innovative Charitable Initiatives, Inc.
272 Broadway
Albany, NY 12204

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