This will come as little surprise to our supporters--the $10 art grant is on a bit of a hiatus but is by no means done!

No, we aren't out spending the donations--we're still slowly adding them up and saving them to give away--we just hit a bit of a wall after the last round regarding the time and labor that was required to process the applications. We're just two folks with 2 full-time and numerous part-time jobs, and we just couldn't sustain it!

We know that we need automation of the process, but we also have limited tech skills. Any volunteers that could help us out?!?!??!? We have more or less determined based on advice that wordpress.org is the way to go with customization of forms, etc., but we're just not there yet basically because we don't know how to do it.

We definitely want to give this money away, and more of it, so please, if you can help us, or know of anyone who can, please contact us.

We also had a glitch with our E-mail marketing--we switched Web Hosts last fall, and our new host, which doesn't use Constant Contact, requires that all subscribers have to verify their subscriptions, which meant we lost about 3/4 of our mailing list, which is why no newsletters have gone out (this is why it's always important to respond to those E-mails you receive). We're budgeting (not out of donations!) to pay for a different E-mail marketing program so we can reclaim our mailing list.

Thank you to everyone who has donated and who continues to donate. If you sent us an E-mail in the last couple months and haven't received a response, we're in the process of catching up, and we will get back with you!)  ¶ 10:06 AM