Arts, Culture & Humanities
Deep Center Incorporated
SAVANNAH, GA
Total revenue
$2.0M
Total expenses
$1.6M
Net assets
$2.2M
Grants received
$4.4M
78 grants
EIN
261706426
Tax year
2024
Mission
Deep center, inc., a non-profit organization, was founded in 2008 to address the detrimental effects of poverty on literacy in savannah, georgia. The organization provides free writing workshops for public school students in savannah. Deep center helps students write with skill, confidence, and courage and showcases their best work through publications and live readings.
Programs
3 programs
Policy and advocacy - the policy and advocacy programs focus was on building community members' understanding of organizing and movement building practices through workshops, listening sessions, and the creation and distribution of a 2024 policy brief. Data collection on the impact of the criminal legal system was generated via interviews with local individuals to support the policy brief, and advocacy for systems-impacted individuals took the form of record expungement clinics held in partnership with a local attorney, which cleared the records of 183 individuals.
Young author project - the introductory creative writing literacy program served 237 youth with workshops held in 12 public middle schools and 2 public high schools.in 2024, 23 skilled adult volunteer writers mentored youth and allowed them the chance to write, advise, illustrate, and publish their writing in 6 anthologies. The books were launched at a public event where youth read their work to an audience representing the diversity of savannah.
All other programs
Financials
FY 2024
Revenue
Expenses
People
13 listed
HOLLY WHITFIELD
EXECUTIVE DI
$105K
40 hrs/wk
JOHN PAUL BERLON
BOARD MEMBER
—
1 hrs/wk
KATRINA BOSTIK
BOARD MEMBER
—
1 hrs/wk
BONITA BRADLEY
BOARD MEMBER
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1 hrs/wk
JOEL DIAZ
BOARD MEMBER
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1 hrs/wk
MONISHA JOHNSON
BOARD TREASU
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1 hrs/wk
MARK MCDANIEL
BOARD MEMBER
—
1 hrs/wk
CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON
BOARD CHAIR
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1 hrs/wk
BERNADETTE BALL OLIVER
BOARD CHAIR
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1 hrs/wk
LUELLA SANDERS
BOARD TREASU
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1 hrs/wk
WHITNEY SHEPHARD
SECRETARY
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1 hrs/wk
CARL WALTON
VICE CHAIR
—
1 hrs/wk
COURTNEY WILLIAMS
BOARD MEMBER
—
1 hrs/wk
Grants received
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