Write on Sports is growing in 2025!

This year has been one of our most successful years! With the support of generous donors like you, Write on Sports (WoS) restarted a summer camp program at Goshen College, IN and welcomed three new school district partners - Paterson Public Schools, Camden City Schools and KIPP NJ - Newark.

WoS has engaged students in writing through writing about sports for 19 years. It is our goal to offer innovative writing programs to all kids, even those who do not follow sports. Given the reduction of art and music classes in schools, WoS is excited to offer students new opportunities in artistic culture, creating another avenue to continue our core principles of building writing and literacy skills through project based learning. We are proud to have launched Write on Arts for students this past summer!

Our unique program offers personalized literacy and writing mentorship with a 5:1 student/teacher ratio. Post-program learning outcome evaluation from the 2024 summer camps demonstrated writing skill improvement in 97.1% of students.

When asked how their view of writing changed or deepened, Edwin, a new WoS student this year, shared “ I learned to take more pride in my work now”.

We are pleased to share with you that as we move into our 20th year, we will be known as First Draft Academy. The combination of “First Draft” reflecting the project work we do and “Academy” representing a learning center is a strong connection to the core mission of the organization. The program names of Write on Sports and Write on Arts are not going anywhere! Under this new organization name, we will have the flexibility to create new, custom programming to fit the needs of our school partners while upholding our core principles of strengthening writing skills, building self-confidence and providing unique learning opportunities.

We need your support now for our class of 2025. Please consider supporting Write on Sports today to help raise $10,000 by December 31st to bring Write on Sports and Write on Arts into the new year stronger than ever before.

Thank you for being a part of our community and for your continued dedication to our mission.