Giving Tuesday 2020 - A Community of Giving
This amount completely pays for 5 full classes for our 18 week Winter/Spring semester. That's 75 kids who can take dance class every week!
In the folk story "Stone Soup," a group of travelers cooks a tasty soup starting with a stone in a pot of water. Each of the passing villagers contributes something that will improve the soup - a few carrots, some herbs, a bit of salt. By the end, everyone has added what they have, and the soup is enough to feed not only the travelers but the villagers as well.
For 9 years, with the help of our village, we have been creating Stone Soup out of whatever folks have been able to contribute. Some are able to put in $20 a week, some $5. Some make costumes, some help plan fundraisers and some bring smoothies or pastelitos to keep the staff going. And what an amazing soup it turns out to be! Always a little different and always delicious.
We know it seems overwhelming, this year especially, but with a little help from each of you we can make it all work. Each small donation will add up to be something beautiful, and we can continue to create a Stone Soup that will serve us all!
What does our Stone Soup taste like right now?
- 133 students age 0-15 are taking weekly virtual classes in creative movement, tap, ballet, hip hop, break dance, musical theater and Latin dance
- Improved technology for better virtual classes
- 10 Teaching Artists, 3 Program Assistants, 2 Program Managers, an Executive Director, and a new Early Childhood Program Coordinator are working hard to give our kids an AMAZING, supportive, inclusive, and eclectic dance education Trainings for staff and faculty on Trauma-informed teaching and virtual dance education
- Check-in phone calls and texts with families, town hall meetings and whatsapp groups to keep in touch 8 tap students have received portable dance floors to use in their apartments and many received tap shoes delivered to their home by our staffFamilies continue to be connected to other organizations to help them with food insecurity, housing issues or other needs.
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