As you’re getting on a plane, in a car, or busy prepping for your Thanksgiving celebration, here are 6 things we’re truly thankful for at BAYCAT that you can add to your list of things to be thankful for, too:
1. Our youth media producers’ creativity and inspiration. Seven films created by our youth media producers won 22 awards this year.
Doc shorts: #Activism, Stats of Life, This Is Me, Tangles
Music Videos: Take a Look at Yourself, Mood Swings, Reach for the Stars
2. Our employers who hired 88% of our graduates from the last 2 years. SF Giants Production, Lucas Film, Wired Magazine, the Golden State Warriors, HBO, Netflix, and others. You’ve given our interns, mainly young creatives of color and young women, dream jobs in the competitive fields of digital arts, broadcast and tech.
3. Our clients. We love working with you, and also appreciate you for giving back by hiring our professional Studio.
4. All the stories we get to tell.
Special mentions: We’re grateful to tell 50 stories of 50 amazing Bay Area nonprofits in 50 weeks leading up to Super Bowl 50. THANK YOU 50 Fund for partnering with us and for being visionary in creating the most giving Super Bowl ever.
Thanks also to all our nonprofit partners who make our community and The Bay Area stronger!
5. The best BAYCAT team, board and volunteers who make this happen each day.
6. All our donors!
We are very proud of what we have accomplished, and thankful for all the support. However, in order to continue to serve our community, we need your help and money. Therefore, we are launching today our year-end annual campaign: “Fund Passion. Not Prison.”
The goal of this campaign is to keep our youth’s free arts and tech programs alive. You can make a difference by donating before December 31, so that we will continue to help low income youth, young women and kids of color, who have no access to the creative and digital fields, to follow their passion and find the job of their dreams.
Click here to donate now.
Also check out the option to build your own page to help us reach the goal. You can do it as a team at your school, organization and company. Or it’s just a way to invite your friends, family and colleagues to pitch in.
This money will help us to educate and train 250 kids from the lowest opportunity neighborhoods of San Francisco and the Bay Area. More importantly, it will give them a safe place where they’re able to express themselves, and where we can nurture their passion into a meaningful profession. This is a growth opportunity they can’t access anywhere else.
Your tax-deductible donation will help Jazzy and Hugo to continue to follow their passion and build a future. After all, we think the world would be a better place if everyone had the opportunity to follow their passion and find a job they love.
Happy Thanksgiving from the BAYCAT family!
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