Creativets

“Form 990 Review Process - The draft copy of the complete return was submitted to and reviewed by the Executive Director and Treasurer.”

“Other services - donated time for legal services - 16,706, website services - 5,638, and volunteer mentor and songwriting services - 84,710.”

“A copy of form 990 is filed with annual reports for Illinois, Tennessee, California, Minnesota , and South Carolina.”

“Other Organizational Documents Publicly Available - Not available to general public.”

“The mission of Creativeets is to empower wounded veterans to heal through the arts and music. The goal of Creativets programs is to empower veterans with tools they can use the rest of their lives to combat stress, depression, and other side effects of war. The programs also enable veterans to see their own capacity for success in an arena outside the battlefield.”

“Veteran Songwriting Programs - 32 veterans participated in our Introduction to Songwriting Program during the 2019-2020 fiscal year. This program pairs veterans with accomplished songwriters and music artists to allow them the veteran the opportunity to creatively express their story through a song. The veteran travels to Nashville, TN, where he or she is met aby a veteran that has gone through the program and can help make the veteran comfortable with the experience. The veteran then participates in a songwriting session to write a song that is recorded and made available for the veteran to share with family and friends. Through the songwriting sessions, veterans are provided with an opportunity to tell their stories in a different way, and they take something from the program they can keep forever. 10 veterans completed our veteran songwriting program in partnership with the Country Music Hall of Fame CMHOF. This program is based on the CMHOF Worlds Music Program - their cornerstone K-12 program providing education resources for language, arts, muisc, and other curriculum. 8 veterans completed our songwriting program hosted at Vanderbilt Universitys Blair School of Music. This is unlike our main songwriting program because it is in a classroom setting that meets once per week for 8 weeks. This course if taught by a Vietnam veteran songwriter and explores both the songwriting experience, as well as the creative process. 89 veterans completed our songwriting program at Camp Southern Ground. Creativets has partnered with Camp Southern Ground to provide a full songwriting program for veterans that particpate in each Warrior Week. Creativets provides full songwriting curriculum and transports professional songwriters from Nashville to Fayetteville and back for the program. The Warrior Weeks typically have 8-16 veteran participants that are grouped into tribes of 3-5 veterans. Creativets then pairs each tribe with one of the 3-5 professoinal songwriters from Nashville to co-write a song that tells a story from each tribe of veterans.”

“Introduction to Art for Veterans - 15 veterans completed our introduction to art for combat veterans program. CreatiVets has partnered with The School of the Art Institute of Chicago SAIC for a three week art program and University of Southern California USC for a two week, fully-accredited art program for disabled veterans at no cost to the veteran. Veterans have full access to studios and equipment at the school, and the program gives them an opportunity to create and discuss art with some of the best art instructors in the country. CreatiVets also began offering programs both virtually and in person from our very own art facility in Chicago. An additional 11 veterans completed our art program at the Dallas Museum of Art DMA. This was a 4 week program, consisting of one, 8-hour class per week and covered a number of topics such as sculpture, book making, drawing and collage. Furthermore, veterans had access to both the virtual and in person resources of the DMA to expand their appreciation of a number of art forms. 20 veterans returned to serve as mentors for our programs in order to assist new veterans through their healing process. We also launched virtual programs through YouTube, Twitch and Facebook where countless veterans participated in both songwriting, art and exercise programs. Last year we had over 4,000 hours of content streamed.”