The Aging Out of Foster Care Book is on Fire!
Our Everybody Needs Someone book is on fire! We only have about 50 copies left from the first run of the book. Buy it now and support our project so we can order another run! What happens when youth age out of the foster care system in the NYC area? Everybody Needs Somebody takes a [...]
Opening Reception for Everybody Needs Someone June 23, 2012
Online event registration for Everybody Needs Someone, The Aging-Out of Foster Care Photography Exhibition at LICM powered by Eventbrite Join US! For the opening Reception for the Everybody Needs Someone, Aging-Out of Foster Care Project by SalaamGarageNYC. Join many of the photographers, writers, and subjects from this important humanitarian media project about the challenges youth face [...]
111 backers and only 8 days to go
Its been an incredible couple of days. Today we have almost reached 50% of our fundraising goal and are so happy to report 42 more backers in the last 4 days. But, we have to do better because, with Kickstarter, its raise it all or get nothing! $7000 to go. Look what rolled off the [...]
13 days to go! SGNYC Kickstarter Needs Your Help
ONLY 13 days to go to raise $9,700 for the SalaamGarageNYC project Everybody Needs Someone, Aging-Out of Foster Care on Kickstarter. We love that already we have 69 donors and 802 “likes”. Crowdfunding is pretty cool and also pretty scary. But we need a lot more still to succeed. Today we are adding new perks [...]
Latest NYC Meetup. Photo Editing Session for LICM Exhibition
The SalaamGarageNYC team was in full photo editing mode at the latest NYC Meetup. We are getting ready for the Everybody Needs Someone, Aging-Out of Foster Care in NY Book and Exhibition. It is hard work picking images and text from this adult project that explores what happens when youth age out of the foster [...]
Announcing SalaamGarage/Local: Seattle!!
Announcing the first SalaamGarage/Local:SEA Meetup! This is an overview, planning and introduction meeting for media folk interested in volunteering their skills to SalaamGarage/Local:SEA. We’ll be introducing our first project, Aging Out of Foster Care, it’s success in NYC (huge!) as well as our plans to launch ‘Aging Out’ in Seattle. When: Monday, 12/5/11, 7-9pm Click [...]