Kids Comic Con (KCC) the annual children’s arts outreach event, has won Community Crisis Response Initiative 2 grant for 2020 from Young Men’s Initiative / Neighborhood Opportunity Networks (NeON), the organization has announced. This grant will allow KCC to do even more to reach and support youth on the margin, and to empower more young people through the benefits of the creative arts, they said in a release, and they plan to work partnership with YMI and NeON to fulfill their mission of the last 14 years.

“This is a great opportunity to inspire the love of learning and creativity,” said KCC creator and founder Alex Simmons. “Our not for profit initiative was designed to engage children’s imagination and creativity through the medium of comic books, drawing, puppetry, storytelling and other creative arts in educational models. We wanted to let young people know that people care about them and believe in their ability to do positive things, not only in their communities, but also in the world. Inherent in this is the educational aspect of literacy - helping kids both read, write, and imagine their future possibilities.”

For more information about Kids Comic Con, visit their site, www.kidscomiccon.com, or their Facebook page.