Once again, we are letting you know via our Little Artshram webpage and Facebook page—-rather than a crowdfunding/sourcing method that your support is needed and will be greatly appreciated!

We’re asking 250 of our community members and friends to contribute $20 each, we would be able to honestly take care of the costs of this 24th annual community event.

Here’s the breakdown of our budget:

Insurance & permits: $1500.00,

Printing, promotion and fundraising mailings:  $500.00

Parade-building materials and expenses: $1500.00 (give or take–depending on how much “stuff” we can glean and search out),

Space rental: $700 (To house and host our guest artist, for his four-week stay.)

Parade artist/crew stipends:  $2500.00, (For the nine (9) weeks, over 600 hours, of heart-mind-hands-on work of designing and setting up a creative space to invite our community to join us in building it.)

A total of numbers of greenbacks needed:  $7,700.00.

So far, we’ve received donations of:  $1,250.00.

As of, April 17th we’ve received an additional: $275.00

STILL, needed to bring this story to life:  $5,175.00

What will you get in return?  LOVE! APPRECIATION! and a PARADE!

Little Artshram is a registered 501.c3 non-profit organization and all gifts are tax-deductable.

Send your gift of parade love, made out to “Little Artshram” and mail it to: Little Artshram, P. O. Box 844, Traverse City, Michigan 49685

On-line donations can be made to Causes, which is under our “mother non-profit” Greater Lansing ARTSPACE dba Little Artshram: 

https://www.causes.com/actions/1723308-2013-four-seasons-of-little-artshram-goodness-in-nwmichigan

Thank you! This parade is going to be GREAT!