There are few greater joys than the sight of a child seeing her name in print for the first time as the author of a bound collection of short stories, or hearing from a group of high school seniors who were all accepted into their first-choice schools based on their essays and SAT scores. Your generous donation will help us bring these possibilities to life for students all over the Bay Area.
| Your donation | What it can provide for 826 Valencia |
| $50 | $50 buys two new chairs for our writing lab. With an average of 85 students visiting our center every day, our chairs get a lot of use and need to be replaced regularly. |
| $100 | $100 funds five packs of binding strips for our book binding machine. 826 believes in producing publications of the highest quality to honor the hard work that goes into each piece of student writing. All chapbooks and field trip publications produced in our writing lab are bound by these professional-quality binding strips. |
| $250 | $250 pays for three publication parties for the editorial board of the Straight-Up News (SUN), the bilingual student newspaper published out of our Writers’ Room at nearby Everett Middle School. |
| $500 | $500 pays for a two-hour workshop session on anything from comic books to college essays. Each workshop is designed by a professional in their field. Class sizes are small and students receive undivided attention on their work. |
| $1,000 | $1,000 allows a class of 28 elementary school students to experience our signature two-hour Storytelling & Bookmaking field trip. |
| $2,500 | $2,500 provides healthy snacks for two full months of our after school drop-in tutoring program. We find our students are more focused and attentive when less sugar is involved. |
| $5,000 | $5,000 funds an entire issue of the 826 Valencia Quarterly, a paperback compilation of student writings professionally published and sold in bookstores across the country. |
| $??? | You can also choose how much you'd like to give—whether it's $5 or $826 every last cent will be hugely appreciated by us. |
Donate by phone
Call (001) 415-642-5905 between 10 AM and 6 PM Pacific time.
Donate by mail
Mail a personal check or money order to:
- 826 Valencia—Donations
826 Valencia Street
San Francisco
CA 94110
Donate in-kind goods
We always need a ton of stuff for our programs and our office, from pencil sharpeners to laptops. Check out what we're currently looking for and then contact us.
You can also support us by supporting some of our superstar partners, such as Good Magazine and Quirk Books.
And finally, if you live in San Francisco, we'd love for you to donate your time!