Monkeyin' Around

First Mural Musings

After so much focus on fundraising it's nice to take a break and come back to the real point of the project: the mural and penpal letters.

Here's what the mural looks like so far, we finished tracing the artist sketch last night. (Quality suffers because these pictures are taken with a G1)




Expect a video soon of the students painting.

Handout

Hayden has been hard at work creating a handout for donations. It's really starting to look professional, and will definitely add credibility when we search for donations this upcoming week. Here's what the flyer looks like so far!

Funds

CHIMP currently has $200 of the total $500 we need to fund out project. We understand the gravity of our situation, and have been contacting businesses in the Boulder area for most of the week. We have received a lot of interest, but unfortunately have received no monetary donations.

Most businesses offered gift cards, but none offered the capital that we need for out project.

On the bright side, Half Fast Subs in Boulder has offered to provide sub sandwiches for the final day of painting when the artist and a couple members from Project Yes! will be showing up.

CHIMP Needs Your Help!

The Children's Hospital Inspired Mural Project desperately needs your help to impact the children at the Anschutz Medical Campus and Pioneer Elementary. We greatly appreciate anything you can donate to our project, and we assure you that it is all going toward a great cause. You can support our cause by either clicking on the donation link at the top right of this blog, or the link in this post.

Thanks again,
CHIMP

Visit to the Children's Hospital

This has been an incredible week for CHIMP (or at least the members that could come to the Childrens Hospital). Shweta, Alex, Sarah, and I went to the Children's Hospital this past Friday to meet the students.

I know that I can speak for the entire group when I say that it was a life changing experience which reaffirmed our devotion to the project.

We listened to the students wishes for the mural, and we will ensure that every requested object makes it on the painting. We also learned about the childrens' illnesses. It is amazing to hear what some fourth and fifth graders fight against.

We also took the penpal letters that the kids at the Children's Hospital wrote for their penpals in Lafayette.

Delay in Posting

Let me begin be apologizing for the sabbatical. I know it has been a long time since the last post, I've been very busy with CHIMP and other school projects that are demanding my time. However, I do have a significant amount of progress to note:

• We will be working with a group of fourth and fifth graders through Project Yes at Pioneer Elementary to create the mural.
• The mural will be donated to the Anschutz children's hospital in Denver.
• We will be hiring an artist to sketch the mural, which will then be projected onto stretched canvas. The children at the hospital will be more or less painting by number, and the artist will do minimal touch-ups after the project is completed. This step was necessary because the Hospital was extremely concerned about the quality of a mural produced by 4th and 5th graders. The students will still be learning the importance of service and community, but we wanted to avoid creating a big brown blob.