Jefferson Award: Gail Siegel, President of ForWords, was the recipient of a Jefferson Award. This is a national award given to individuals who are serving their communities in various capacities. A segment about ForWords and Gail's work aired on KPIX/CBS 5 Eyewitness News. Full Story and video...click here.
New Grants: ForWords received grants from the Marin Community Foundation and the Amini Foundation for the Study of Affect to produce a documentary film about gender roles. This film will be researched, written, filmed, and produced by 35 middle and high school students from the Youth Scholarship Program at the Canal Alliance in collaboration with ForWords. Working with the youth for this project ForWords has both Bay Area Writing Project Teacher Consultants and artist-in-residence, film maker Peter Bratt, multi-media specialist Will Hammond, Jr., and actress/drama coach Lauren Hanover.
The official ribbon cutting for the "True Colors" student mural was held Wednesday, November 9th @ 3:30 PM at the Canal Alliance, 91 Larkspur St., San Rafael (map). Click Here for pictures, video and more information on this amazing project.
ForWords has partnered with Iron Springs Brew Pub in Fairfax for "Give Back Tuesdays". 
A percent of the evenings' profits are donated to a local charity, and Forwords has been featured four times in recent years. Many thanks to the Altman family and staff at this terrific venue for their continued support of ForWords. Check back to find out when ForWords will be featured at Iron Springs Brew Pub in Fairfax for the next "Give Back Tuesday"
More at www.ironspringspub.com/give-back-tuesdays/
ForWords is enormously grateful to our donors, friends, advisory board, teachers and students and their families for making our ForWords Celebration on Sunday, May 22nd a huge success. Particular thanks to Bay Area Bluestone and the Olund Family and Neri and Denis Lopez for their generous donation to ForWords. Pictures here
Sponsored by ForWords/CanalAlliance/FineArtsMuseums of San Francisco, our students and their families participated in a Family Retreat Day on March 12th at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. The Marin Airporter buses transported 120 students and parents to learn about the Olmec Exhibit from Mexico.