The Quest Foundation offered Chapter 510 a $50,000 challenge grant to activate our new Writing Center last year. We’re proud to announce two others joined with Quest to bring our after-school programs to life: The Weinberg Foundation as well as Frances Hellman & Warren Breslau.

Congratulations to our radical design team from IDW and to us! We cannot be more proud to have won internationally acclaimed SF Design Week’s Social Impact Award.

We are so thrilled to be one of this year’s OFCY grantees! The Oakland Fund for Children and Youth have gifted us $75,000 to support programs at our Oakland writing center.

Congratulations Leila Mottley on your Instant New York Times BEST SELLING Oprah Book Club debut Nominated debut novel Nightcrawling!

Chapter 510 published SIX gorgeously designed and printed BROADSIDES of poetry written by Oakland seventh-grade authors who participated in Chapter 510's WHISPERING TO THE AIR workshop with poet Giovanna Lomanto.

We are thrilled to introduce our newest staff member, Alexandra Céspedes-Kent. Alexandra first gained a love of writing in the eighth grade when she had a dynamic, engaging English teacher at her East San Jose public school.     

In a new anthology of poems, ten Oakland fifth graders rewrite the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in their own words. With frank and exquisite language, the young poets offer rich insight into what it means to have the freedom to move, rest, think, seek a safe place to live, be cared for, and have a family.

"This space is a blessing." - Ayodele Nzinga, Oakland Poet Laureate

One week ago today, a writing center was born. It came to our attention that we have been working for nine months on the build and beautification of our new home at 546 9th Street in Old Oakland. This does not feel like a coincidence.

The Bay Area Reporter thoughtfully highlights our first-of-its-kind science fiction and fantasy workshop for LGBTQ sixth and seventh graders called New Origins in an interview with teaching artist Duane Horton.

Happy National Poetry Month!

For the third year in a row, in partnership with the City of Oakland and the Oakland Roots, we will be celebrating Poetry Month by writing together as a Town.

Building on a 5th grade social studies unit that studies the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Chapter 510 led an in-school book project for 5th grade Hoover Elementary students.

Our poetry program with Franklin Elementary fifth-graders has culminated in this gorgeous mural by Ryoko Tokuho! Thank you to our teaching artist Giovanna Lomanto for guiding the poets through writing this beautiful collaborative poem.