Pyramid Campaign

The 2024 Writers in the Community Pyramid Campaign is now on!

The campaign began January 31, 2024, and closes on April 30, 2024.

The Writers in the Community program has a powerful impact on young people’s lives. Help make a difference by donating to the 2024 Pyramid Campaign today.

About Writers in the Community

QWF’s Writers in the Community program pairs small groups of young people with a professional writer or literary performance artist who can teach them and, more importantly, motivate them, to use language to express themselves in productive ways. In each project, a writer-facilitator works with a small group for 10 weeks, teaching them language tools, giving them writing prompts, and ultimately, boosting their self-confidence by showing them that they are capable of producing literary work of value.

Many of the young writers we work with have been detained under the Youth Protection Act or the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Others are single teenage mothers without strong support from their families. There are kids with learning disabilities who haven’t flourished in regular schools, and youngsters with psychiatric disorders who can’t live at home on a regular basis.  The workshops our writers design give these people an opportunity to express themselves creatively, build their confidence, and gain the literacy skills so essential for success in life.

Our 2024 Campaign Goal

Most of our partners are unable to make a financial contribution to the program. We raise most of the money we need from foundations and public funders, but it’s not enough. Fortunately, the QWF community has been extraordinarily generous since we launched our first Pyramid Campaign in 2011; each year our members have contributed a significant proportion of the funds that help us to finance the Writers in the Community workshops.

Thanks to your generosity, last year we raised $18,728. This year, we hope to beat that and raise $22,000.

Here’s one way we can do it:

• 40 “I want to help” donations of $30
• 52 “I’m doing okay!” donations of $50
• 52 “I make a living as a writer!” donations of $100
• 22 “I have a grown-up job!” donations of $500
• 2 “Angel” donations of $1000

Two Ways to Give

You can make an online donation through our CanadaHelps page. Please be sure to choose “Writers in the Community Program” from the drop-down menu. You’ll get a tax receipt directly from CanadaHelps (but they’ll take a small percentage).

If you want QWF to get every cent of your contribution, you can mail us a cheque made out to “Quebec Writers’ Federation” with WIC 2024 written on the memo line. Be sure to include your email address so we can send you your tax receipt.

You can also consider pledging a fixed monthly amount for four months (or longer!)—the online CanadaHelps tool makes that easy, or you can mail in postdated cheques (made out to “Quebec Writers’ Federation”) in one letter.

Whichever way you donate, do let us know how you’d like your name to appear when we acknowledge your gift.