A Unique Partnership: Love My Neighbor Day With Bank of America

Love My Neighbor Day with Bank of America is a unique outreach program developed in collaboration with Victory Outreach and a

team of community activists and volunteers from Bank of America’s Better Money Habits program which ads substantial additional value to the program free to a community. 

It combines Artward! Kids program with free financial seminars by top regional professionals to children’s parents while kids’ participate in the art engagement program.

The Love My Neighbor Day collaboration formula we have developed proved huge success locally with word spreading and event being of truly unique, vital and real community spirit.

 

We developed a unique way to make this program mobile and transport to public square as part of citywide events such as Backpack Giveaway, Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration, Earth Day, Community Friendship Day.

Love My Neighbor “Curriculum” in Collaboration with Artward Initiative Non-Profit, The California Arts Council and The City of Carson

We just had the most awesome Love My Neighbor “Curriculum” event at our non profit Artward! Gallery “Scottsdale” for a group of 37 inner city kids of Bridges International program. It is the generous California Arts Council grant that had allowed us to hire a bus and pay for the accompanying adults and program assistants to make our The City of Carson sponsored program available to more in the community.  





For this event we integrated our Love My Neighbor publicart installation space with the children art studio with a great effect on the curriculum. 

Cirilo Campos, the beloved by the community local gardener of 35 years and the subject of my life size "El Rey Trabajador" painting in the installation is walking by the students to their great excitement. It is special individuals like Cirilo who bind our communities together and are truly unsung heroes of our troubled society.

 

Engaged by the images and stories of great neighbors presented in the installation many students came up with striking images of their own. 
 

In our amazing partnerships we really changing the story of this chronically underserved community known for decades of institutional failure. 
The community where some local residents and officials are sometimes still afraid to set foot in-  is now a cultural and artsitic experience destination where bus tours are coming to.  

With The Californis Arts Council grant we are enabling a paradigm shift with art at the very core.  That’s why in ART we trust !