Young-Ju's Give Out Day Page

THIS IS LAST YEAR'S PAGE.

FOR 2021 PLEASE GO TO
https://www.giveoutday.org/youngju-2021

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Hello!

I need as many different people as possible to donate $10 or more to the Sundance Association for Country-Western Dancing, a 501c3 nonprofit organization that brings country-western dance lessons and events to the LGBT+ community and its friends. My son Ingu is the president of this fine organization.

Sundance is in a competition for the most number of unique donors to contribute between June 1 and June 30 through the Horizons Foundation Give Out Day portal. Your $10 gift will help Sundance vie for up to $10,000 in additional grant funding, which is desperately needed to help counter losses from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Unique donors should have different names and email addresses, and the name on the credit card should match the donor name. For more details about your donation (including a privacy statement), please refer to the Give Out Day information page on the Sundance Association website. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact the Sundance Association directly at info@sundancesaloon.org.

Just click on the DONATE button on this page to donate.

Thank you for your support!  

Yours,
Young-Ju Yun

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The Sundance Association for Country-Western Dancing was formed in 1999 to provide education in and programs for country-western dancing in the LGBT+ community in San Francisco. As an all-volunteer and community-supported nonprofit, the Sundance Association fosters individual growth and passion, encourages volunteerism and financial giving, and strives to create an inclusive and welcoming community.

The major projects of the Sundance Association include:

• Sundance Saloon. Twice-weekly dance lessons and open country-western dancing featuring a variety of dance forms including two-step, waltz, east coast swing, west coast swing, line dancing, and more. 
• The Sundance Stompede. An annual four-day country-western dance convention featuring four nights of large-scale dances and three days of educational dance workshops for all levels from beginning to advanced, attracting 700 people from all over the world.
• The Sundance Bandits. A dance performance group comprised of interested attendees of Sundance Saloon.
• Community events. The Sundance Association hosts country-western dance events in association with other organizations and festivals, broadening its reach in the general LGBT+ community. Examples include events at the San Francisco Pride celebration, the Castro Street Fair.
• Community support. The Sundance Association assists with fundraising events for many other nonprofit organizations in San Francisco, and has helped raise over $430,000 over the past twenty years (examples: PRC, LGBT Asylum Project, Transgender Law Center, Openhouse).

The Sundance Association is much more than a listing of its projects would suggest. The contribution of the Sundance Association to the health of the greater LGBT community and the individuals within it cannot be overstated. All of the projects of the Sundance Association have a primary goal of developing a culture of welcoming inclusiveness. Attendees find there is no importance placed on attractiveness, dance ability, socio-economic status, age, race, ethnicity, gender identification, sexual orientation, or any of a myriad of classifications that traditionally separate us. As a result, we host a wide cross-section of the LGBT+ community (e.g. ages 20s to 80s, men and women and nonbinary, cis and trans, gay and straight), who all mix together and dance with each other in a utopian environment that doesn't exist anywhere else.

The Sundance Association is fiscally responsible. As an all-volunteer organization, we have zero expenses for staff, and our administrative expenses (excluding insurance) are consistently less than 3% of our total expenses.

We face special challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic. Sundance Saloon has been closed since March 12, resulting in a total loss of income from admission fees. Because of the nature of our activities, we do not expect our situation to improve for many months. Still, we continue to work on fulfilling our mission by providing weekly Sunday night live-streaming dance lessons and monthly Zoom socials to keep our community connected.

We hope you will support us during this difficult time, so we can continue our community-building work, and so we're ready and able to dance together in celebration when that time comes. 

More info: http://sundancesaloon.org