Give to Split This Rock

Split This Rock is a grassroots effort—a people’s movement. We’ll need everyone’s involvement to make it happen. Everyone who donates will be thanked on the website. And if you’re able to give $100 or more, you’ll be thanked in the Festival program.

Thanks largely to the support and participation of so many of you, the inaugural Split This Rock Poetry Festival in March 2008 was a tremendous success. You—and others who couldn't join us this year—have asked us to make the festival a regular event and to build Split This Rock into a permanent home for progressive poets.

And so we are taking the plunge. We have chosen March 10-13, 2010 as the dates for the next festival. And we hope you will want to stay involved. We know we have a lot of work to do to build an organization that is genuinely representative of the diversity of progressive poets working in all areas of our country and in all poetic styles today. And we know our festivals and other programming can improve and grow. Here's how you can help:

Donate Today!

Give a tax-deductible donation to Split This Rock. The work of Split This Rock depends on a strong financial foundation. Your funds will help support grassroots outreach, communications, and planning for the 2010 festival and other programs. They will help us create a stable organization you can count on to serve your interests as a socially engaged poet. Gifts of any size will be deeply appreciated. We hope you'll consider giving $50, $100, or more. The Institute for Policy Studies is still accepting donations on our behalf.

To contribute, click here:

https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/357/t/8457/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=4271

Or send a check to “Split This Rock”:
The Institute for Policy Studies
1112 16th Street, NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036

Sponsorship Levels

We have sponsorship levels to fit every budget. Each level offers special benefits:

Walt Whitman Sponsor                                  $5,000+
“Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall.”

  • Supports printing, advertising, and internet costs to publicize Split This Rock to writers, activists, and readers across the country
  • Special reception with featured poets
  • Premium recognition on all major event materials, including website, program and signage
  • 8 tickets to Split This Rock Poetry Festival

June Jordan Sponsor                         $1,000+
“Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.”

  • Provides airfare and accommodations for a featured poet from the West
  • Special reception with featured poets
  • Recognition on all major event materials, including this website, program, and signage
  • 4 tickets to Split This Rock Poetry Festival

Langston Hughes Sponsor                            $500+
“America never was America to me / And yet I swear this oath- /America will be!”

  • Provides airfare and accommodations for an East Coast poet
  • Recognition on event materials, including this website and program
  • 2 tickets to Split This Rock Poetry Festival

Muriel Rukeyser Sponsor                             $250+
“Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings.”

  • Supports staff stipend and volunteer costs for one day
  • Recognition on program materials, including this website and program
  • 1 ticket to Split This Rock Poetry Festival

James Baldwin Sponsor                                 $100+
“Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

  • Provides discounted registration to Split This Rock for two poets/activists
  • Recognition on the Split This Rock website and in program materials for major events

Please, every dollar counts. In this time of economic crisis, when everyone is stretched, it is harder than ever for organizations like ours to continue our work. Your gift is fully tax-deductible: every penny goes toward spreading the word and bringing poets of conscience together in Washington, DC.