Chutzpah Tuesday
“Hunger spreads in poor countries, American students have fallen further behind since the pandemic, and a brutal war in Ukraine is creating desperate refugees…”*
And today, Read650 looks to you for a tax-deductible donation. The very definition of chutzpah…
Yet, if we are still enjoying your attention:
In a publishing environment with a shrinking number of opportunities to showcase new voices, Read650 is a high-quality platform for aspiring and established writers alike— a nonprofit literary forum promoting and creating performance opportunities for writers through curated live and digital events.
Each year we produce six live shows at Manhattan's City Winery featuring submissions of hundreds of writers; each year 84 of those stories are presented in thoroughly entertaining live-performance recordings as deeply moving, sometimes hilarious, and always engaging half-hour podcast episodes.
If you’re on our website reading this, you likely share our interest in creating these opportunities for writers.
Read650 is a 100% volunteer organization. We’re finding that as we grow, there are some tasks that simply cannot wait for someone to find the time to pitch in.
Your gift of $5, $10, $100 or more can help us hire a grant writer to apply to foundations that exist to fund what we do–like the Nancy Friday Foundation, which just promised Read650 $2,000.
Your donation could help fund an intern to assist with the myriad tasks of getting our live shows up at City Winery and our bi-weekly podcast online.
Hunger, literacy, refugees? Your generosity makes a world of difference. And yet we have the chutzpah to ask you for a contribution to also make what we do possible. Because we simply can’t do it without you.
*Nicholas Kristof, who chose the One Acre Fund, which works with hardworking but impoverished farmers in Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Burundi and other countries to boost harvests.
