Street Poets received a grant to support their weekly Seeking Peace and Meditation Workshops. The majority of the funds will be used to directly support the salaries of their staff teaching artists with the rest for supplies, documentation and ongoing assessment of their program. These workshops reach roughly 250 people annually. The mission of Street Poets is to harness the healing power of poetry to build community and inspire the next generation to write, rap and dream a new world into being for us all. They seek to break the cycle of violence in the lives of at risk and incarcerated youth, build creative community by bringing youth and adults into deep transformational relationships and collaborate with other organizations and communities to inspire both individual and systemic change.