[DC LoCo] Fwd: [HacDC:Blabber] Possible David-Eggers-style Writing Center in Columbia Heights?

[Daniel Chen]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Kevin Cole <dc.loco at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hiya gang,
> Those of you in the education biz, pay attention!
...
> Forwarded conversation
> Subject: [HacDC:Blabber] Possible David-Eggers-style writing center in
> Columbia Heights?
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> From: Elliot Williams <elliot at speakeasy.net>
> Date: Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 18:05
> To: blabber at hacdc.org
>
> If you haven't heard about http://www.826valencia.org/ or similar, take a
> minute to do some googling.  The premise:  David Eggers (author,
> philanthropist) sets up a fake storefront that has a
> kids-afterschool-writing-center behind it.

I signed up to volunteer there many months ago.  In fact, volunteer
orientation sessions filled practically the moment the per-month forms
appeared on the web site.