Write For Change: Write for Change serves organizations and individuals working to bring about a more just and ecologically sustainable society.

Featured Projects

Community Foundation for Southern Arizona
The Community Foundation contracted with WriteForChange to produce a 25th anniversary retrospective publication that would explore the impact of the $25,000 Arizona Arts Award on artists’ lives and careers, and on the larger arts and civic community.
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Cocopah Nation
The Cocopah Cultural Center and Museum wanted to increase visitation to tribal community enterprises. WriteForChange worked with the Museum Director, her staff and Tribal Elders to create a booklet that would accurately portray tribal history and life.
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The Community Food Bank, Inc.
The Community Food Bank hired WriteForChange to manage its grants program, and help them produce winning proposals. In the first year of our partnership, WriteForChange assisted the Community Food Bank in obtaining $1.7 million in foundation and government funding.
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Archived Clients List

Sustainable Tucson
www.sustainabletucson.org

WriteForChange provides organizational consulting, grant-writing, and community collaboration advice on an ongoing basis. Sustainable Tucson is an emerging grassroots coalition for sustainability.

WriteForChange created an Executive Summary, Arizona Crossroads blog, sponsorship package, press releases, and articles during 2006-07, and continues to provide writing and grant-writing support. WriteForChange led the formation of the Tucson Inaugural GREEN Festival.

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The Diaper Bank
www.diaperbank.org

WriteForChange submits grants to support the work of The Diaper Bank. It has advised the Executive Director and Board of Directors on strategies for funding and grants that fit well with its mission.

The Haven
www.thehaven.org

WriteForChange provided grants management consulting as well as grants research for The Haven.

Tucson GREEN Magazine
www.tucsongreenzine.com

WriteForChange serves on the Community Board for the new Tucson GREEN Magazine. Ideas for articles and collaboration; business connections; direct support with distribution and promotion in the community are ways WriteForChange is supporting the GREEN Magazine in Pima County.

Arizona Association for Environmental Education (AAEE)
Phoenix, AZ
www.arizonaee.org

WriteForChange was contracted by AAEE to fulfill a grant award from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust (www.nmpct.org). During 2008, WriteForChange will write grants for Sustainable Tucson and AAEE to support sustainability education across the state and an important citizen-based initiative in Tucson.

WriteForChange has provided ongoing support to AAEE since 2004.

Cocopah Indian Tribe Museum and Cultural Center
Somerton, AZ
www.cocopah.com

Community Food Bank, Inc.
Tucson, AZ
www.communityfoodbank.com

WriteForChange continues to support the Community Food Bank with numerous grant submissions and ongoing grants management consulting. In late 2007 the Community Food Bank was awarded a five-county grant award from the Arizona Department of Economic Security for nearly one million dollars to distribute nutritious food throughout southern Arizona.

WriteForChange helped support the Child Hunger and Nutrition initiative at the Community Food Bank by grouping all child programs under one program and promoting them as a unit. This facilitated a new wave of community donations and grant awards. In 2008 the Community Food Bank will seek endowment funding for child nutrition to meet the needs of 50,000 children at risk of hunger in its service area.

WriteForChange has supported the Community Food Bank since 2005.

Community Foundation for Southern Arizona
Tucson, AZ
www.cfsoaz.org

Research and writing, Arizona Arts Award 25th Anniversary Retrospective (PDF) publication. This publication received a silver award for excellence in communications by the 2006 Wilmer Sheilds Rich Awards Program in April of 2006. Read the press release. (PDF)

Desert Botanical Garden
Phoenix, AZ
www.dbg.org

Institute for Museum and Library Science Grant Application (NEH).

Environmental Education Exchange
Tucson, AZ
www.eeexchange.org

Friends of Arizona Archives
Phoenix, AZ
www.faza.net

Grants research and donor development.

High Desert Museum
Bend, OR
www.highdesertmuseum.org

Evaluation of Education Department and Report to the Board of Directors.

International Relations Center
Silver City, NM
www.irc-online.org

Grant writing.

Innovation Technology Enterprises
Phoenix, AZ
(no Web site)

National Science Foundation Small Business Innovations Research grant application.

March Air Field Museum
Riverside, CA
www.marchfield.org

Grant editing and consultation.

Microbusiness Advancement Center
Tucson, AZ
www.volunteersolutions.org/vctucson/org/2149947.html

Grants research.

Mat Bevel Institute
Tucson, AZ
www.matbevel.com

Fund-raising consultation and grant writing.

Pinelands Preservation Alliance
Southhampton, NJ
www.pinelandsalliance.org

Consultation on NSF Informal Science grant application.

Planned Parenthood of Southern Arizona
Tucson, AZ
www.ppfa.org

Grants Research and Proposal Writing to support Real Life, Real Talk Parent Education Initiative.