Giving Opportunities

Inspire the Next Generation

Your gift will:

  • offer outstanding students scholarship assistance
  • improve the on-campus student literary journal and fund a student editor
  • help Corban bring poets and writers to campus for workshops
  • fund writers’ retreats for students and faculty
  • allow students and faculty to attend poetry conferences and workshops
  • support a visiting writer series
  • recruit excellent student writers
  • support Writer’s Cramp—a camp focused on nature writing

Yearly Membership Levels

Friend $50 per person
Patron $300 ($25 each month)
Muse $600+ ($50 each month)
Laureate $1,200 ($100 each month)

Benefits

Donors receive a complimentary copy of Literatta, the annual student journal, as well as a t-shirt with a literary logo. As council members, they will also receive an invitation to the annual writing workshop and meeting.

Other Giving Opportunities

  • Donate one or two week allotments in time share or vacation home for writers’ retreats.
  • Donate frequent flyer miles.
  • Endow Corban creative writing scholarships.
  • Sponsor creative writing students and faculty to attend national writing conferences—$1,500 each.
  • Donate a home to be designated Corban University’s creative writing retreat.
  • Endow a visiting writer’s chair – $1,500,000.
Words Making A Difference

On campus

  • Portals Writing Conference
  • Stinky Bagel Poet’s Group
  • Unbroken Thread: Storytelling Group
  • Art Walk: Mixed Media
  • Literatta Journal of student poetry, fiction and art Annual Poetry Contest

Off campus

Workshops, mentorships and lectures are being organized locally and worldwide for:

  • high schools
  • middle schools
  • home school groups
  • charter schools
  • youth language camps worldwide