When we were done paying all our bills, we had a few thousand dollars left over. Two other non-profits helped us and we wanted to thank them. We gave $400 to Ballard Boys & Girls Club for letting us meet in their building and another $400 to the Ballard Historical Society for providing the cool historical photos in the corner store and helping edit the interpretive panels.
The Boys & Girls Club sent us this letter in return.
Posted on May 17th 2010 by david in Fundraising | Leave Comments |
I just saw this today. The Ballard News Tribune picked up our park as a part of a collection of pocket parks in Ballard.
(photo courtesy of Ballard New Tribune)
Posted on April 30th 2010 by david in Mentioned elsewhere | Leave Comments |
corner store is open!
It is a bit odd. We are an organization with no financial assets. The Friends of Ballard Corners has no bank account, no officers (on paper), no board, no nothing. We rely on Groundswell NW to handle all our money as our “fiscal sponsor”. Any money we receive goes straight to them. Any money we “spend” comes straight from them. In return, they receive a 5% cut of all our donations – this helps them fund their operations.
It seems strange to me that we would give money from our account at a non-profit to another non-profit. No one gets a write-off. But, nonetheless, we were inclined to want to thank two organizations – Ballard Boys & Girls Club and Ballard Historical Society for their help.
The Ballard Boys & Girls Club hosted virtually all of our meetings, including the large public meetings. The Ballard Historical Society helped with our historical photos and writing up the verbiage of the panels. In return, we wanted to support them. We did it with profuse thanks and a check for $400 each.
Posted on April 29th 2010 by david in Fundraising, Meetings | Leave Comments |
It appears the Russian spambots have worked out how to do math (*). Therefore I have made the math formulas for posting comments a little more obscure.
Here are a couple of hints:
* A Space Odyssey
* George Orwell
* Columbus
(*) to leave a comment on this website you need to answer a math question e.g. twenty4 plus 3. Now it more like aspaceodyssey plus columbus.
Posted on April 16th 2010 by master in Misc. | Leave Comments |
Finally, the construction is all done!
The park really is done now and completely open! Yeah!
Posted on April 13th 2010 by david in Current State, construction | Leave Comments |
Alta shared some photos of the Easter egg hunt. Her daughter (with the dark hair) stars in a few of them.
Posted on April 5th 2010 by david in Events | Leave Comments |
I snapped a few photos of the hunt yesterday -
Posted on April 5th 2010 by david in Events | Leave Comments |
Our local newspaper, the Ballard News Tribune, posted some photos of yesterday’s hunt.
Posted on April 5th 2010 by david in Events, News | Leave Comments |
a few pics from the park.
Posted on March 18th 2010 by david in Current State | Leave Comments |
