Blog Entries - April 2008

Heroes for the Arts in Guatemala

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A window to see Guatemala

April 12th. Liz Hererra, BuildaBridge's Central American Institute Coordinator,&
nbsp; joined 20 organizations at a volunteer fair organized by GuateAmala (www.guateamala.org). More than 1000 visitors had a chance to know and consider different opportunities for serv [...]

From Scotland With Love

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Take some origami birds from the kids of the Create! Achievement after-school program. Accompany Dr. and Mrs. Corbitt and Dr. Nix-Early on their recent

visit to Glasgow, Scotland where they presented "Arts and Transformation" to a lively group of artists and community workers from [...]

Banking on Good Behavior

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Charlene Melhorn

What do banking and behavior have to do with each other? In most cases, not a whole lot, but at Create! Achievement they are inseparable. In order to address some of the out of line behaviors occurring at our arts based afterschool program, we decided
to challenge our students with “Student Stars,” a system of rewards and consequences c [...]

Stomp!

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Charlene Melhorn.

March 28, 2008

As fifteen Gwynedd-Mercy College students arrived with boxes of supplies and Professor

Carol Evans called out directions, it seemed like an army of help had descended on Create! Achievement, BuildaBridge's s [...]

First International Artist on Call Project in South Africa

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In March 08, 14 muralists responded to an Artist on Call invitation to work at a shelter for young women who had been involved in the sex trade industry as part of a team from Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church. Barbara Price Davis, Executive Director of YouthCAN! in Arkansas, also a psychologist and arti [...]

BuildaBridge Volunteer Training

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BuildaBridge reguires all volunteers and potential staff to undergo training for working with kids and integrating the arts. Highly interactive, our April training reached a record 29 people from across Phialdelphia responding to the needs for consistent artistic workers in transitional homes and our after-scho [...]