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Demographics Served at Marwen
Marwen's vast community is made of 850 students from grades 6 to 12 whose addresses span across 54 of Chicago's 57 zip codes. Participants are required to come from an under-served community, and 95% of these participants come from families who are within the low-income bracket. Moreover, 67% of students are female and 33% are male. About 91% of Marwen students are accepted into college. These requirements are in place to ensure that Marwen serves youths who would have otherwise been unable to afford art courses at the quality that Marwen provides.

Awards
Marwen has been recognized for it's merit, art, and community. After it's new building construction and expansion, the organization's architecture was bestowed two awards: the American Association of Architecture's Design Excellence Award, and the Building Design + Construction Magazine's Silver Award. As for the organization's creative arts aspects, Marwen was awarded the Coming Up Taller Award by the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards. This award was given to recognize Marwen for it's creative development of Chicago youth, as well as their art and humanities work.

Scholarships
While Marwen's goal is to shape the artistic abilities and outlets of current students who cannot afford alternative services, they also ensure their students' involvement in the arts beyond their high school careers. The organization nurtures professional and creative success by partnering with foundations and organizations to provide scholarship opportunities, such as the Marwen Alumni Scholarship Fund. The Marwen Alumni Scholarship Fund, supported by the Artists' Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions Project (ACRE), offers aid to recipients who apply to their Residency Program along with chances to have their work featured in Chicago exhibitions. Marwen's dedicates much of their college and career programs to culminating student art portfolios and exploring pre-college programs and opportunities to secure scholarships for student's who are nearing graduation.

Funding (addition to group member's section)
Marwen's largest fundraising event is their annual Paintbrush Ball, where the organization raises the majority of their yearly finances. The gala features live music, food, and a silent auction for artists, friends, and business partners of the Marwen community and of Chicago at large. In recent years, the guest count has reached to over 400 people in attendance. For the year of 2017, Marwen raised up to $900,000. A key aspect of the gala is it's interactiveness between the donor's and students, which gives donors an inside look into what their donations help support and achieve. Participants of the fundraiser are presented with stop motion photography that illustrates the progress of individual students' art projects from their beginning to completion.

Past grant donors have included organizations such as the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation, the Mayer & Morris Kaplan Family Foundation , the Surdna Foundation , the Terra Foundation , the Chicago Community Trust , and the Illinois Arts Council Agency. As for the year of 2017, Marwen received the REAM Foundation Impact Grant and was given a $300,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation.

Annotated Bibliography
I. The first article cited gives Marwen a citation of merit, naming it's contractor, contractor, consultants and location. Moreover, the text gives a descriptor of the resources and properties within the organization's building: "Situated on four floors of a timber manufacturing building, the program includes a main public gallery for student work, an alumni gallery, library, administrative offices and nine state-of-the-art instructional studios for multiple artistic mediums.

The expansion included a new entry and parking court, a multiuse loggia space and an additional 15,000 square feet of new/renovated studio spaces, new windows, HVAC, roof, solar panel array and building signage."

II. Robert Halpern's book includes a section titled "Marwen's Arts/Arts at Work," where it details the mission and practice of the Marwen organization. It overviews the sponsorships and paid summer internships that Marwen provides to display the organization's commitment to shape young artists. It focuses on how Marwen develops not only the skills of the youth, but also their identities and professional lives through mentorship.

III. This source is significant because it provides some insight into who Marwen is in partnership with, and also who Marwen is funded by. It also provides multiple art projects, mainly film, that was produced by artists of Marwen.

Article Evaluation
The wikipedia page for "Interfaith Youth Core" is thorough in its formatting and descriptions of the organization. Everything written in the article is relevant to the topic, however the passage about the Community Service Challenge was distracting because it provided information that was too tangential and detailed, therefore unnecessary. However, I understand that the details were mentioned to bring more credibility to the organization. The article is neutral and all sources are properly cited and working. Moreover, none of the information is out of date, and all references come from legitimate sources. The article does not seem to have any content under the Talk page, and it also does not have any rating. It does not belong to any WikiProjects. In general, the way Wikipedia discusses the topic does not stray from the way we've talked about in class because it follows the rules of citation, context, and information.