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How will you <br />evaluate whether or <br />not your goals have <br />been met? <br />Continued and increasing attendance of the open turning and workshop <br />sessions without have to reduce working capital. <br />How do you promote <br />and publicize the <br />work of your <br />organization? <br />Our members are our greatest source of outreach and advertising, and <br />word of mouth has proven an incredibly effective means of recruiting <br />students for open turning. W e also performed a major overhaul on our <br />website, https://chwt.org, in 2022 to make it more accessible and user- <br />friendly. Our website includes contact information and instructions for <br />attending open turning sessions, as well as our calendar of events <br />including our monthly workshops. <br />W e have additional avenues of community outreach including turning <br />demonstrations at the Carrboro Farmers' Market and The Farm (University <br />of North Carolina Faculty-Staff Recreation Association). Our Instagram <br />profile, chwoodturners, showcases our members' work and also has the <br />current workshop schedule posted. W e maintain an active list of email <br />addresses for targeted marketing efforts (such as publicizing our upcoming <br />monthly workshops); email addresses included in this list include our active <br />members, individuals who have attended open turning and workshop <br />events, and those who have signed up at our community outreach events. <br />Items turned by our members are signed with both “CHW T” and the artist’s <br />name, acknowledging the outreach mission of our organization and our <br />individual members’ contributions. These items include those for sale to <br />support the NC Botanical Gardens as well as items turned and donated to <br />medical agencies. <br />Prior to the pandemic, our members paid monthly visits to the UNC <br />Pediatric Oncology department to color wooden spinning tops with young <br />patients and their siblings. W e are planning to reactivate this program in <br />the near future. Meantime, as participants in the “Beads of Courage” <br />project, we have turned and donated lidded boxes to the UNC Children’s <br />Hospital (and the Beads of Courage national organization) for young <br />patients who have been awarded beads marking procedures and <br />milestones achieved during the course of their cancer treatments. Our <br />most recent initiative is called “W ings for Healing,” in which we turn and <br />donate small wooden angels as tokens of support and possible inspiration <br />for pediatric patients undergoing cancer treatment at Duke University <br />Hospital. In a letter we received from Caroline Sweezy, the Director of the <br />Duke Family Support Program, she states: ”W e are so grateful for the <br />beautiful Angels that you donated. . . . Your contribution has touched so <br />many lives (including ours) as we deliver and see the reactions of families.” <br />Please describe <br />efforts by your <br />organization to <br />generate revenue. <br />The majority of CHW T's revenue is derived from open turning and <br />workshop sessions which are held in our woodturning studio, where we <br />also have an on-site shop offering competitively priced wood, supplies, and <br />tools. Additionally, active CHW T members pay annual dues of $75/year. <br />W e also sell turned items at NC Botanical Gardens and the UNC Farm <br />event thru revenue-sharing, mutually beneficial agreements. Silent auctions <br />are held at our Spring and Fall Fling social events. <br />Resumes of artists/administrators <br />Frank_Penta_grant_bio.docx <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 58473E52-7EC0-4B69-9AEE-D45A317A03A3