The Curry School of Education's Young Writers Workshop at the University of Virginia transforms young people as it did the author. The program brought the author to poetry and prompted her to attend the University of Virginia, where she completed a book of poetry and a thesis on metaphor's effect on religious conflict. All of these outcomes trace back to her time at Young Writers, and many YWW participants could tell a very similar tale. This past fall, the program again offered her a chance to grow, this time by helping it as a philanthropist. In this article, the author shares her first philanthropic experience with the program, which she evaluated as an exercise in venture philanthropy.