<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@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)

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
http://jennyryan.net
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