STREET POETS INC

Programs

1. Seeking peace: we facilitated 44 hybrid (virtual and in-person) "seeking peace" poetry & meditation workshops via zoom and the street poets office throughout the year, serving an average attendance of 10-20 youth and young adult participants weekly.in addition, we facilitated a "seeking peace outside!" session at reuben ingold park with love source l.a. (aug. 18, 2024).open mic/street poets presents & dj sessions: we hosted 9 "sp presents" in-person community open-mic events and public poetry readings/interviews over the course of the year. These events were held at various partner sites, including pieter performance space, la plaza de cultura y artes, emerson college, and art share-la in the downtown los angeles arts district, averaging 45 attendees at each.our featured artists at each event were well-established, professional poets and performers from across the country; and our audience spanned from students to alumni, to their families, street poets supporters, and beyond. These events offer the youth in our community an opportunity to have their voices and creativity heard, as well as be exposed to poets and other professional artists.other special collaborations included: we…

   $484,309 spent$39,955 earned by the program
   37% of program spending

2. Music: we offered 36 weekly in-person "beats & rhymes drop-in, music-making workshops throughout the year for youth and young adults, ages 13-25, serving a group of about 15 participants. In addition, we continued our internship program, onboarding 2 selected cohorts of 10 total youth to attend, actively participate in, and acquire skills from, one-on-one sessions with master/professional artists who could provide insight and workshopping about the music and recording industry, as well as weekly music and writing programming.all of our participants, including interns, participate in educational and arts excursion activities, as well as public performance opportunities and monthly open mic, where participants have hosted, dj'd, performed on stage and learned additional skills in events and performance arts. Youth and young adults were able to experience an in-depth curriculum, covering areas that included music production, beatmaking, musical engineering, writing, performance, recording and production. Many of the participants from both the drop-in "beats & rhymes" program and the internship program helped produce, write, perform and record for the original, street poets hip-hop…

   $403,037 spent
   31% of program spending

3. Schools: street poets led weekly, in-person poetry-writing workshop series at los angeles county middle and high schools throughout the year including at the following sites: bert corona charter high school, college bridge academy el sereno, college bridge academy compton, college bridge academy watts, john adams jdrc, metropolitan high school, accelerated middle school and san antonio continuation high school. We also facilitated one-time performance and writing workshop visits for schools including gabriella charter middle school and crossroads school in santa monica. In addition, in an ongoing multi-year partnership, street poets led a 5-day intensive workshop series at miami high school in miami, az (april 14th-18th, 2025). The schools programs served a total of about 300 youth.

   $299,693 spent$38,400 earned by the program
   23% of program spending

4. Probation: in collaboration with arts for healing & justice network (ahjn), street poets led weekly and one-time poetry-writing and music recording workshops at and with los angeles county probation department and community sites/platforms, including: dorothy kirby center, barry j. Nidorf juvenile hall, san fernando valley family clinic, and los padrinos juvenile hall. We also facilitated creative well-beings for the arts for healing justice network and events sites such as the california foster youth education summit (april 7, 2025) - providing training and facilitation for educators and partners servicing probationary youth. In all, we serviced 75-100 youth incarcerated, on probation, or at-risk of incarceration aged 13-25.street poets collaborated with arts for healing justice network for the "imaging freedom" full week retreat in tuscaloosa, alabama, creating a space for previously incarcerated and system-impacted youth from la for healing, freedom-dreaming, and transformation. Through a trip to the national memorial for peace and justice and the legacy museum in montgomery, the civil rights justice institute and the 16th st church in birmingham, and a four-day gathering at…

   $119,586 spent$174,435 earned by the program
   9% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,306,625.