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