My Nonprofit Reviews
FictChick0622
Review for National Novel Writing Month, Berkeley, CA, USA
Often for those in the arts, we're told that we can't. We're told we're dreamers. We're told that nothing productive comes out of it. Funding gets pulled or is hard to drum up. Too often, the arts are treated as a luxury too expensive to do.
But NaNoWriMo is a refreshing change from that. It dares people to dream. It dares people to try. It urges you to do something once a year that seems impossible in all the other eleven months. It creates a community of hope. A local, world-wide communal wonder where everyone who'd ever been told they can't can.
And they do it completely for free. No one is turned away becuase they can't afford it. The only thing you are required to do is dream and reach.
It's why I've donated to them for the past three years.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
This program has given me the gift of three novels--the dreams realized, three goals accomplished. It gave me three opportunties to believe in myself. I look forward to it every year because it gives me a chance to see my dreams as something attainable, something tangible.
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
I wish that it had more funding. NaNoWriMo--and specifically the Office of Letters and Light--tries so hard to serve its community as best it can through the month of November and throughout the rest of the year. But, as with most non-profit groups, their dreams are bigger than their budget. They are so amazing and so creative, I would love to see what they could do with more.
