Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Velocity Thanks Kelly Sullivan for all Her Hard Work!




Yesterday was Kelly Sullivan's last day working as Development Associate at Velocity Dance Center and we want to give her a special shout out. For the last two years, Kelly has been tirelessly writing grant proposals, thanking donors, planning events and successfully managing many a random projects that come her way. I can hardly comprehend how much work she did for Velocity and how much she will be missed. Thanks Kelly!

Great Photos of people in the space pre-construction




Tim Summers took these awesome photos in the new space.

We're still waiting on the certificate of occupancy from the city before we can begin construction. More news in the next two weeks.

La Charme

Behold La Charme. . .


Monday, September 28, 2009

Donating is fun.


The last $50 donation I processed for Velocity's new space was made in honor of a birthday lap dance performed by Waxy Moon at the Single Ladies Dance Off.

Who says fundraising is boring?

Friday, September 18, 2009

The Velocity Forever 200 Club Inaugural Members - $48,000!


Hiya! Welcome to the Velocity Forever blog, a webspace created for Velocity staff and volunteers to share the good word of generosity and progress that comes across the development desk and computer screen on a regular basis. That is, the names, gifts, and words of encouragement from the Velocity donor community, people that are helping Velocity land safe and sound in a new home.

As development director, tracking this progress is something that I think should be open to everyone and am super excited to share! We have some seriously selfless folks out there, some mildly wealthy people, and a LOT of broke artists scraping together monthly donations to this campaign. It's totally awesome.

Still, between now and Jan of 2010, Velocity needs 140 more donors to join our Velocity 200 Club by making a doantion to the Capital Campaign.

The following people have stepped up to the plate and become an inaugural givers to the campaign.

Glen Kawasaki
Jeremy Steward
Anne Lawrence
Fumi Murakami

Ahsan Kabir
Mari London and Mark Popich
Eliza Larsen
Isabelle Bouanna
David True and Sara Hufbauer
Pam and Bob Gregory
Wendy Cohen
Beth Hamby
Lisa Sedor
Neil Coffey
Roel Hammerschlag & Michele Landa
Abigail Halperin & Christian Swenson
Kathleen Kerschbaum & Robert Cunningham
Sarah Rudinoff
Hannah Wiley
Violette Tucker
Sharron & Dan O'Donnell
Kitty Daniels
Carla Barragan
Jessica Gleason
Marissa Niederhauser
Jessica Young
Lisa Perpuse
Michael S. Geiger
Liz Young
Cathy Dorson
Margaret Salome
Kristin Gentile
Melissa Conklin
Maki Morinoe
Eliza Larsen

What a great start! VFF! Velocity Hearts You.

A little background. . .
Velocity Forever is a capital campaign to relocate and build out a new facility for Velocity Dance Center. Having secured the perfect building, Velocity needs everyone's participation to transform the raw space into a center for training, performance, and community gathering. The campaign is about $700K (not to big for a capital campaign) and we need to raise about 1/7 of that from individuals.

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In other fundraising news, when I opened the Murdock grant that I have been working on for 6 months, it looked like this

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and I almost lost it. Luckily, I restarted everything and it was fine.

OH AND DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE SINGLE LADIES DANCE OFF TOMORROW NIGHT! It can simply not be missed.

Until next time,

Shannon