November 12, 2007
Dear Parent,
I am writing to ask you to consider making a year-end contribution to The Mosaic Project. Like you, I have a child who spent a week with Mosaic. It was an amazing experience for Kaia. Her time at Mosaic produced emotional and intellectual growth at a rate I have not seen since she was a toddler. It has now been two-and-a-half years since Kaia was at Mosaic. Her week there is still mentioned as a peak experience in her life, and now she is starting to look forward to being a cabin leader when she is 15.
Mosaic creates a magical space where a new community is formed. This community contains the rich diversity that makes the Bay Area such a wonderful place to live. While in our normal world there are often barriers that divide us from each other, during their week at Mosaic our children learn to connect and make friends across those boundaries.
Like any young nonprofit organization, The Mosaic Project is dependent on donations from its supporters to do its work. The program fees paid by parents and schools cover just 48% of the program’s costs. Because your child can go to Mosaic’s outdoor school only once as an elementary school student, you might not think to contribute. However, it was because of the generous support of earlier generations of parents and other community members who believe in Mosaic’s mission that our children were able to experience this wonderful program. I am asking you to join me and help keep Mosaic strong for the next wave of 4th and 5th-grade students.
When they are at Mosaic, young people think about the kind of world in which they want to live. I encourage you to reflect on this as well and to ask yourself and your child the following questions. How did The Mosaic Project affect your son or daughter’s life? Do you want other children to have that experience? Like many Mosaic students, my daughter wants Mosaic to exist for generations. As another student, Jaime, put it, “I hope when I grow up I will have the privilege to go and be a cabin leader. And if I have children and Mosaic is still around, I will send them.”
Thank you for sharing your child with The Mosaic Project and for helping other children see what kind of world is possible.
Sincerely,
Mark Friedman
Mosaic Parent and Board Member
P.S. You can make a secure donation online. Thank you again for your support.