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

[Eddan Katz]

That is so excellent. Fantastic job to the folks who worked on it. I'm 
sure I speak for others as well, We'll be grateful for this major step 
for a while to come.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] Sudo Room wins $4700 grant from Southern 
Exposure!
Date: 2013-11-06 08:49
 From: David Keenan <dkeenan44 at gmail.com>
To: "sudo-discuss at lists.sudoroom.org" <sudo-discuss at lists.sudoroom.org>

I am so, so, so, so happy for sudo and the public school.

We worked our freaking asses off those last two days all the way down 
to
the wire. I am super impressed by Jenny, Marc, Sudo, and all of us.

We fucking rock.

David

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas at gmail.com [8]>
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 [1])
>
> 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. Ill write a
> blog post this weekend to publicly thank SOEX.
>
> And <3 to all yall for making an awesome Sudo Room!
> <3
>
> Jenny
> http://jennyryan.net [2]
> http://thepyre.org [3]
> http://thevirtualcampfire.org [4]
> http://technomadic.tumblr.com [5]
>
> `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
>
> "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."
> -Laurie Anderson
>
> "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of
> defining it."
>  -Hannah Arendt
>
> "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
> -Stéphane Mallarmé
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[1] http://soex.org/artistsresources.html
[2] http://jennyryan.net/
[3] http://thepyre.org/
[4] http://thevirtualcampfire.org/
[5] http://technomadic.tumblr.com/
[6] mailto:sudo-discuss at lists.sudoroom.org
[7] http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
[8] mailto:tunabananas at gmail.com