[sudo-discuss] Sudo Room wins $4700 grant from Southern Exposure!

[Danny Spitzberg]

<3 all those who sweated this out at te deadline and made it happen!

<3 SOEX, too, who once ran a contest to plan the most elaborate bank heist imaginable




Huzzah!




And ditto to renewed efforts at appropriate building to scale through membership & org development!

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Super stoked to announce that both Sudo Room AND the Public School have
> each won a $4700 grant from Southern Exposure, an excellent nonprofit
> supporting the arts in the Bay Area:
> *Southern Exposure is proud to announce the recipients of grants in Round 7
> of our Alternative Exposure Grant Program. In this round, Southern Exposure
> is awarding $70,000 to 16 projects at levels ranging from $5,000 to $2,400.
> With major support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts,
> Alternative Exposure supports the independent and self-organized work of
> artists and small groups that plays a critical and significant role in the
> San Francisco Bay Area arts community. In the seven years since launching
> Alternative Exposure, Southern Exposure has awarded $421,000 in direct
> funds to 120 Bay Area projects.(http://soex.org/artistsresources.html
> <http://soex.org/artistsresources.html>*)
> This is a nice bit of cash that will very nearly provide the 3-month rent
> buffer we endeavor to have as a foundation, though we still need to build
> up Rainy Day, maintenance and operations funds. This also gives us
> significantly more to work with should we choose to move into a larger
> space in the next couple of months.
> It would be great to reinitiate conversations and proposals toward a
> membership policy and long-term sustainability goals.
> Thanks to David Keenan for inspiring a down-to-the-wire grant-writing
> hackathon and making the process super fun and collaborative, and major
> props to Marc for excellent feedback and revisions. I'll write a blog post
> this weekend to publicly thank SOEX.
> And <3 to all y'all for making an awesome Sudo Room!
> <3
> Jenny
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