826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting under-resourced students ages six to eighteen with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.
Bita Nazarian, executive director of 826 Valencia, said the organization has raised $1.8 million for the project and hopes to drum up another $2.2 million.
This year’s festival had the theme #blacklivesmatter and featured media clips, skits, spoken word poetry, dance and rap performances, and a student-produced documentary.
826 Valencia co-founder Dave Eggers was recently interviewed by the Wall Street Journal Magazine about plans in motion to open a second 826 center in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District.