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Seeds for the Future

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Students in the Seeds for the Future program, created by University anthropology professor Ayala Emmett, pose with certificates for completing a weeklong creative writing workshop at the University last summer. At the completion ceremony, students read their finished pieces while their parents and other supporters (also pictured) listened.

In summer 2005, Associate Professor Ayala Emmett agreed to run a weeklong writing workshop for kids at the North Street Community Center in Rochester. Their exuberance for learning moved her, and that limited commitment grew into the Seeds for College Foundation.

It is a University-affiliated and community-based foundation that aims to help inner-city children graduate high school and awards them seed money for college. For each year the students earn good grades, the foundation deposits $100 into their individual funds for college. The students come to campus for workshops and classes so college life becomes an attainable goal.

"I wanted to give them what I call their birthright," Emmett says, "to be prepared throughout their educational experience to go on to higher education and find their rightful place in society."


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