About CREATE Foundation

GOALS

Encourage the use of arts and crafts for creative expression by all ages.

Encourage more creative thinking in the business community.

Bring creative problem solving into the school classroom.

Offer educators more ways to teach creatively.

Research humanity's basic need to create.

TOUCHING LIVES

CREATE Foundation has touched many lives in its two years of programs with the promise of touching even more.

• Discover Creativity 2002 and 2003 touched 60 teachers who will teach 30-40 students per year. In one year, these teachers will have reached nearly 2,000 students.

• At the Madison County Teachers'  Institute, 60 additional teachers learned specific projects to use in their classrooms and how to keep themselves open for creative thinking. This gives us the potential to reach another 2,000 students.

• At the Parents as Teachers Annual Conference, 100 parent educators learned over 20 projects to teach their parent clients to work with their children in development preparing for the classroom. With a client base of potentially 20 families per parent educator, 2,000 more could be influenced.

• The St. Louis Art Fair 2002 provided an opportunity to encourage hands-on artistic creativity in 700-1,000 children and adults. 2003 will provide an opportunity to reach another 700-1,000 with the joys of hands-on projects.

• The growing Belleville Art on the Square weekend, allowed CREATE to teach an art project to 400-500 eager participants.

Adding up the numbers tells us that by continuing the current programs, CREATE Foundation has  the potential to indirectly touch more than 200,000 children and adults in the next 10 years. We ask for your help to meet that goal.