3:30 is the time that most after-school programs begin. It is also the time when children are more likely, when idle, to engage in risky behaviors. “Just as health does not begin and end in hospitals, education does not begin and end in schools.”
Think BuildaBridge
BuildaBridge engages the transformative power of the arts to bring hope and healing to children, families, and communities in the tough places of the world during out-of-school time.
Without any program, children are often alone and unsupervised, at-risk of entering into dangerous activities, or supervised but without any stimuli.
Within a program, children are stimulated by new forms of learning that inspire excellence and passion, and find a community that provides protective factors in their life.
“3:30” is the theme of 2011's Painting a Brighter Future annual giving campaign
View stories and related articles regarding 3:30/after-school experiences on our ArtBlog
3:30 is a QUESTION.
What role will you play in contributing to the development of children in your city and your world? Will you support and serve the under-served who have no safe place to be at 3:30? Will you support our work financially? Will you spread the word?
3:30 is a CHALLENGE.
Join us as we attempt to transform the approach to programming for kids, training people to use models that reflect the research and experience of what works best.
3:30 is a PROMISE.
We promise in our out-of-school interventions to be trauma-informed, and child-centered as we identify and meet the needs of students; and hope-infused as we speak blessings into each child’s life based on their strengths.
3:30 after-school intervention is at the heart of BuildaBridge's mission to bring hope and healing through the arts and to engage artists in service to others. We go to the tough places of the world empowering children, families and communities to see a better future and harness their ability to reach it.
Our Program Commitment to 3:30
Discovery:Arts education for children dealing with homelessness in Philadelphia
Artology: Summer camp that integrates art, biology and environmental studies that utilizes Philadelphia’s parks as a vibrant and evolving classroom.
Healing: Creative Arts Therapy that provides safe avenues for immigrant children in Philadelphia.
BuildaBridge Institute: A training and applied research academy that prepares creative community workers for arts-enriched service and leadership in their communities. The Institute has 530 alumni from the US, Europe, Middle East, Southeast Asia and Latin America.
Arts Relief and Restoration: Focused projects that provide relief, healing and holistic development through art-making to those who have experienced trauma as a result of the injustices of war, natural disaster, and other catastrophes in Haiti, Kenya, Thailand, Congo and Guatemala.
Diaspora of Hope: A week long catalytic arts camp that has met the needs of children in Atlanta, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua and Kenya and provides training to local teachers. It is an extension of the BuildaBridge Artist on Call initiative that invites artists anywhere to serve everywhere.
