GrassRoots is dedicated to helping arts organizations and businesses reach their full potential by encouraging creative partnerships between the two.

"The possibilities are endless, the task is to identify and work with team players only" - Mark Barreres

Write With Love Many times in life we make mistakes, have remorse for something we said or did to someone. The right words can be key to showing your true feelings, more than saying IM sorry. Here is where this can happen, You can choose from many different options. You will fill out a short form telling us your special needs in what you would like to express to that special someone. You will choose from many different fonts, background pictures, and framing options. We will create a custom poem to meet your needs. We will ship it out in a custom box that you will design to a look that suits you,or we can email it to that special someone and add music to it that you can choose, so when it opens up he or she can see and hear - The words from your heart. Write With Love From Your Heart!

Dan Dutterer - Poetic Justice

Developing the Creative Imagination - Creating Confidence Through the Art of Poetry
Building Understanding With Words

Dan is focused on educating and entertaining students by showing them what poetry has to offer, through the magic of theatre and live performance. Dan finds fulfillment working with children (some would say he’s still a kid himself!) He believes that kids are able to absorb and understand an amazing amount, if one takes the time to explore the world of literature, poetry and art with them, on the appropriate level. Dan has offered his unique take on poetry in many places, such as the YWCA, Books-a-Million, the FENCE Foothills Storytelling Festival, Barnes & Noble, Dickens in the Village, the Montford Arts Festival, and schools across the southeast. You may also call Dan Dutterer at: 828/250.9703 Asheville North Carolina

Finding Power and Potential in Thought - Improving Communication through Self Expression - Hearing what You feel -Improving communication with yourself and others - Listening to yourself - Expressing Yourself - Ideas in Operation - Imagination is more important than Knowledge - Putting Thoughts to the Test - Color outside the lines - Ideas in Progress - Putting Ideas in Progress - Putting Potential Ideas In Progress - Poetic Justice - Making Words Leap Right Off the Page - Painting with Words - Work Outside The Box - Putting Concentration on the Imagination - Ignite Your Ideas - Anything is Possible - Just Put Your Mind To It - Anything is possible - Just Put Your Mind To It and Make It Hppen - I have a Dream - What is your dreams

Heather Davis - Shenandoah Valley

Heather Davis is a writer and poet who lives in Front Royal, VA. She earned a B.A. in English from Hollins University and an M.A. in creative writing from Syracuse University. She attended the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, and is a winner of the 1991 Hayden Carruth Poetry Prize at Syracuse University, a Larry Neal Writer's Award, and the 2007 Arlington County Moving Words Poetry Contest. She is the author of The Lost Tribe of Us, which won the 2007 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Cream City Review, Poet Lore, Puerto del Sol, and Sonora Review, among others. She is available to teach poetry and other forms of writing to large or small groups. She is also looking to start a writer's group and reading series in the Front Royal area. She serves on the coordinating committee of the Split This Rock Poetry Festival and is an active member of D.C. Poets Against the War. - You can contact Heather at heatheredit@cs.com

Jose Padua - jfpadua.blogspot.com

Jose Padua, of Padua Writing and Research, is a freelance writer in Front Royal, VA who is ready to help your business grow by telling just the right story in just the right words. Mr. Padua has extensive experience as a journalist, government contractor, and writer of poetry and prose. For the past 4 years he has written about health care, music, the arts, and international development. He especially enjoys translating technical jargon into catchy, easy-to-understand language and compelling human interest stories. Mr. Padua’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Bomb, Salon.com, Exquisite Corpse, Another Chicago Magazine, and Up is Up, but So Is Down: New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992. His features and reviews have been published widely. He has read his work at the Lollapalooza Festival, CBGBs, the Knitting Factory, and the Washington Project for the Arts.

To contact Mr. Padua about his freelance writing services or readings, email him at jfpadua@cs.com

Online Writers Resources

Collective Creative Marketing - Creative Business Networking

Finding People That Are Willing To Work Together!

www.GrassRootsNetworking.com

GrassRoots Networking is all about people that want to help others and are willing to share and connect others. Our hand picked group of business networkers help one another make the right connections and grow the GrassRootsnetwork on a local level. We all grow your business, finding opportunities to make a living despite the hard times in which we live. The key is to keep in touch with other team players, sending referrals and building your local network of GrassRoots Networkers. - Mark Barreres SEO WebPromotion.com

Being a team player requires individuals to have certain characteristics:

1. Being prepared to listen
2. Being prepared to share ideas
3. Being prepared to accept criticism and to act on it
4. Being prepared to help others in the team - even if it is not your immediate role
5. Being prepared to expect others, and yourself, to question, be questioned and to be persuaded by different views, opinions and ideas...

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