 Harlem has become my home. I came here as many people before me have to absorb this legacy, to be my full creative self, and to be a benefit to others while doing so. For the better part of my time here, I've worked with the LP as an artist in residence, as a teaching artist, and as a neighbor. Before I connected with the LP, I made art here and I shared it here, but I had seeds for ideas and new ways of making and sharing that I couldn't really make happen on my own. After I learned about the LP and its mission, its ideals, I found companions for my ideas and tangible practical support systems to do the kind of work that I wanted to do. With the LP, I have grown and made the connections that I needed to turn what I've absorbed for my home into meaningful contributions back to it. I have become a we with my neighborhood and with the LP. Granted in our values, we grow this community as artists and neighbors. We believe people are imaginative, bold, and powerful. Carving out spaces, both physical and internal, for these innate qualities to stretch and grow, we work to see communities thrive. By joining the Laundromat Project's People Power 10K Challenge, you can help artists and their neighbors serve as assets in their own communities. By donating $10, you can help us raise $10,000 in just 10 days. $10,000 helps the LP fund one artist to make a six-month People Powered Art Project in their own neighborhood Laundromat next year. Take a moment to think what your $10 can do. $10 empowers an artist to make imaginative art with their neighbors in their own community Laundromat. $10 inspires everyday people to be creative right where they live. $10 transforms each of us into creative agents for change in our own neighborhoods. I'm donating $10. Will you?