45% there for the Performing Arts!

First, I'd like to thank everyone who has donated so far to my Milller Lite Ride for the Arts personal fundraising campaign.

Kudos to:

• Mom
  
• Rachael J.
  
• Heather C.
  
• Michael C.
• Becky L.
  
• Jason L.
• Yesh P.
• Kristen G.
• Brooke B. & Craig F.
• Sarah S.
  
• Nicole E.
  
• @Bananza - seriously this is a Twitter friend who felt compelled to give $5! She rules!
• Grandma!
• My grandma's friend, Ardene, in Tacoma who thought this was such a cool thing that she sent me a check for UPAF for $35!
  
• Monica D.
• Greg & Angela Q.
• Julie B.
• Jackie V.
• Timmi C.
  
• Chris M.
• Kaycee W.
• Paul C.

Whether its been $5 or $50, you are making a difference. I'm so blessed to know you guys from literally SO MANY areas of my life.

I also want to thank the folks over at Spreenkler, who are putting the TweetUp funds from last month toward the ride.

BUT there's still lots of work to be done! My goal is $1,000 and I have $555 to go in 23 days. Crunch time to find $25/day. Or 55 people to give just $10 each.

A few weeks ago I shared why I'm riding. Tonight, I thought I'd share the following from the United Performing Arts Fund on where your pledge will go:

The Many Reasons to Pledge

• $25 will provide a classroom with either a pre-show or post-show workshop through First Stage Children's Theater.
• $75 will provide a classroom with both a pre-show or post-show workshop through First Stage Children's Theater.
• $85 allows one student to participate in the Mad Hot Ballroom program with Danceworks.
• $115 allows one student to be part of the Classroom Connections Program with First Stage Children's Theater. This program instructs teachers on how to use drama as a teaching tool.
• $120 provides a classroom with a core theater workshop. In these one-hour workshops First Stage teaching artists work with teachers to design a workshop based on current curriculum being studied.
• $120 provides up to 8 lessons to a motivated but financially needy student through Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra (MYSO).
• $120 provides 24 students the chance to attend The King Who Danced. This is a Milwaukee Ballet in-school assembly program starring the entire class of Milwaukee Ballet II dancers. It tells the history of ballet from King Louis XIV through to today's Milwaukee Ballet.
• $150 allows ten students to attend a Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestrain-school ensemble. One of the most positive and unique corollary benefits to this program is for students to have opportunities to see and hear their peers as role models, with additional opportunities for peer mentoring.
• $250 provides a classroom with a Teaching Through Theater (T3) workshop at First Stage Children's Theater. These innovative week-long workshops utilize dramatic techniques in the classroom to teach lessons throughout existing curricula.
• $250 helps put a violin of the proper size in the hands of a beginning student in Progressions, through Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra (MYSO).
• $500 sponsors two classrooms in a City of Milwaukee school to participate in all aspects of the Connections Program through First Stage Children's Theater.
• $500 pays for The King Who Danced at a school assembly presented by the Milwaukee Ballet.
• $500 allows an ensemble of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra to visit a classroom.

Remember, you can donate online very easily at https://www.firstgiving.com/mcarnold