Not quite every year, I send a quick note to most of my online communities asking for a very modest donation in support of my high school theater program. Here on dKos, I shamelessly leverage my double digit UID to see if I can get some folks to pitch in. It rarely works. But I’m back again.
I run a HS theater in southern Oregon. We tend to produce pretty good work and we tend to lose money. So, we hope to crowdsource some cushion year to year.
We have two campaigns going.
One, through Donorschoose, and is specifically to fund a choreographer for our spring musical (Seussical... lots of fun!) She’ll also do movement workshops for both of the public high schools in town as part of the deal. For that one, there have been some matching codes in effect. SNOWFLAKE was the most recent. This one is time sensitive and has a solid target. Donate HERE.
The second, through GoFundMe, is a general funds campaign that will help to offset production costs through our entire season and also to provide financial assistance to participants in some of the festival events we attend during the year. This effort is open ended and doesn’t NEED to hit the stated goal. Anything helps, HERE.
Sunday, Jan 10, 2016 · 9:56:02 PM +00:00 · JD SoOR
Quick note to add that thanks to a re-blogging or two, this gained a bit more visibility and nearly $200 more in dKos-originated donations in the past 24 hours. We are now $270 from completion. Thanks, again dKos community!
Sunday, Jan 10, 2016 · 10:02:35 PM +00:00 · JD SoOR
Further update: I love that the Inoculation Project got involved… a slight tangential digression from their Science and Math in Red States efforts to instead support the Arts in a Blue(ish) State. Little known secret: I was hired at this school as a biology teacher, but some nifty FTE juggling got me into a split assignment with theater (theater is my degree but my endorsements include biology and social studies...) that slowly became all theater. Participation has been waning, though, and I am again in a split assignment.