How To Help
MissionFish and eBay have teamed up to bring you eBay Giving Works, a dynamic fundraising platform for nonprofits that offers buyers and sellers the opportunity to support their favorite causes through trading on eBay. MissionFish is the provider of the online listing tool for eBay Giving Works.
MissionFish also provides other service and support activities including nonprofit verification, donation collection and disbursement, tax receipting, and online contribution tracking. By combining the power and reach of the eBay marketplace with the functional and industry expertise of MissionFish, eBay Giving Works makes it easy for buyers, sellers, nonprofits, and cause-marketers to come together, Building a Marketplace for Change.
How it benefits InsideOut Detroit
The seller signs in at
http://www.missionfish.org and selects InsideOut Literary Arts Project of Detroit from the list of registered nonprofits. The seller selects a percentage of the final value to donate for the listing.
Once InsideOut accepts the listing, it goes up for sale on eBay (based on the seller's schedule if specified.) The item appears with the eBay Giving Works icon. InsideOut and the donation percentage designated will also appear in the item description.
When the listing ends, the buyer pays the seller, and the seller ships the item to the buyer as usual. The seller pays their donation to MissionFish, and MissionFish distributes the funds to InsideOut and provides a receipt to the seller for the gift.
Learn more about eBay Giving Works at
http://www.ebay.com/givingworks
eBay and the eBay logo are registered trademarks of eBay Inc.
The Donation Amount
Every eBay Giving Works item that sells raises money for the benefiting nonprofit.
When an item is sold by an eBay community seller, their donation is either the percent of the final value promised or a $10 donation minimum, whichever is greater. A MissionFish fee ($3.00 + 2.9% of the donation amount) is deducted from the donation. The seller is responsible for eBay fees. There is no donation (or MissionFish fee) if the Giving Works item doesn't sell.
If a nonprofit is selling their own item directly, they'll receive 100% of the final sale price from the buyer. MissionFish doesn't charge nonprofits anything to sell through Giving Works. Normal eBay fees do apply, however.
MissionFish is a nonprofit, and our fees help defray the costs of offering our service. eBay fees go directly to eBay.
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Article# 999, Created Dec. 10, 2009
Dear friends,
As you celebrate your holiday traditions this season, we hope you will consider making a gift to InsideOut. Your purchases will allow us to fill our student writing centers and classrooms with books that spark the imaginations of young people as they put pens to paper and find the magic in their own voice.
To engage our students, (many of whom do not have art classes or art teachers in their school) we bring artistic, hands-on projects to spark students' creativity and writing. Student collages, paintings, pencil drawings, photographs and ceramic sculptures have been featured in our publications alongside the poems these works of art have inspired.
As you do your own holiday shopping, consider making an extra purchase of writing materials or art supplies for students in the InsideOut program. All items will be used directly with the students as they explore the power and beauty of language all year long.
Thank you from all of us on behalf of the children served.
Supplies, Supplies, Supplies
Notebooks
Pocket folders
Disposable cameras
Watercolor sets
Washable markers
Colored pencils
Colored chalk
Glue sticks
Pocket thesauruses and dictionaries
Manila drawing pads, large
Art postcards (large variety of styles)
Construction paper
Magazines (for collages)
Child-size scissors
A Few Games Too
Balderdash
Taboo
Apples to Apples
Scategories
Legos for use in Lego poetry
From Here to There
DOT bus cards
If you wish to make a donation to be used for the purchase of any of these items, please let us know. Gift cards from establishments that sell children and young adult books or supplies on our list are welcome as well.
Some local independent bookstores that specialize in children’s and young adult books that we recommend are:
Ladels Books, 1413 Brooklyn, (in Corktown) Detroit (313) 963-8550
The Book Beat, 26010 Greenfield Rd., Oak Park, (248) 968-1190
For Top Ten lists of Young Adult Books for teens as well as lists of Caldecott Medal award-winning picture books, Newbery Awardees for outstanding fiction for young people, and winners of the Coretta Scott King Book Award, please visit and search the website of the American Library Association.
www.ala.org.
For excellent magazines for children consider a subscription to any of the titles listed under
www.CricketMag.com or
www.stonesoup.com which publishes children under the age of thirteen.
We thank you for your support of InsideOut!
Article# 964, Created Dec. 3, 2008 :: Last Update: Dec. 14, 2009
Volunteer your talents!
Currently, we have a need for typing up poems for our journals. We are also beginning to organize volunteer help for our annual gala taking place May 21, 2009. We welcome inquiries regarding volunteer help. Please contact the office at 313-965-5332 for more information.
Other volunteer opportunities will be made available via our website. Check back often!
Article# 286, Created Aug. 25, 2005 :: Last Update: Jan. 15, 2009
We are looking for visual artists in the Detroit area to conduct art workshops in schools that host InsideOut programs. If you would like to conduct short-term (one- or two-day) art workshops, please call the office.
Article# 285, Created Aug. 25, 2005 :: Last Update: Oct. 10, 2006
InsideOut is always on the lookout for accomplished poets and writers who want to share their passion for language with Detroit's young people.
InsideOut’s team of writers-in-residence features some of the Detroit area’s premier poets, fiction writers, and scriptwriters. Writers-in-residence conduct 25-week long residencies in elementary, middle and high schools visiting their schools usually once per week. In addition to inspiring young people to imagine, dream, write, draw, and read, our writers-in-residence also coordinate with students the editing process of their school literary magazines.
If you are interested in being considered for a writer-in-residence position, please send a cover letter, resume, and a 3-5 page writing sample to InsideOut’s Associate Director, Alise Alousi.
Article# 284, Created Aug. 25, 2005 :: Last Update: Jan. 20, 2010
Become a member! Join InsideOut Literary Arts Project in giving Detroit’s children the joys of reading and writing and in bringing their creative spirit into the world.
Membership levels
- $35 Haiku club
- $50 Free Verse Friends
- $75 Lyric Lovers
- $150 Spoken Words
- $250 Pantoum Patrons
- $500 The Sonnet Society
All members will receive a copy of our printed newsletter,
WordPlay.
Donations from members are a sustaining part of InsideOut’s income.
In an increasingly challenging financial climate, the actual number of contributors strengthens our case with funders. Your membership dollars translate directly into benefits for the young people we serve.
- $35 will scan and reproduce one child’s artwork in his/her school’s literary magazine
- $50 will provide a year’s writing and art supplies for one classroom
- $75 will display one child’s poem on line and in local businesses for “A Poem A Day!†Article# 283, Created Aug. 25, 2005 :: Last Update: Jul. 10, 2008
