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

[Hol Gaskill]

THIS IS HUGE!

We need a festival in honor of those who contributed to the grant writing!  Thank you!!!

Festively,
Hol


Nov 6, 2013 08:39:59 AM, 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:
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>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)
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>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.
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>It would be great to reinitiate conversations and proposals toward a membership policy and long-term sustainability goals.
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>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.
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>And Jenny
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http://jennyryan.net
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http://thepyre.org
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http://thevirtualcampfire.org
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http://technomadic.tumblr.com
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