Docs In Progress, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that creates and fosters a supportive community for documentary filmmakers by developing, encouraging, and celebrating new and diverse voices in documentary film, is requesting your support.
Consider us in your giving plans. You can make an online donation by clicking this link or you can send a check to:
Docs In Progress
8700 First Avenue
Silver Spring,
MD 20910
When you make a donation, a letter for all cash and in-kind donations valued at $100 or more will be mailed early in the new year. If you make a smaller amount donation and would like an acknowledgement letter, we will be happy to send you one.
Docs In Progress looks forward in 2011 to bringing even more programs which help educate, inspire, and transform the way people view their world. Among our plans for the new year:
Deepening existing partnerships and developing new ones. Docs In Progress will continue to present screening programs throughout the year with the Documentary Center at the George Washington University, the Writer's Center, and Creative Alliance. We will also be partnering with the Our City Film Festival in February to present a work-in-progress documentary screening and discussion on films related to Washington DC and will be taking our alumni screening series to Montgomery County locations outside of the Documentary House thanks, in part to funding from the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County. If additional fundraising efforts are successful, we will have some other new partnerships which we will be able to announce in 2011.
Expanding programs to broaden their reach. After 2010's successful summer camp for middle schoolers, Docs In Progress will hold two Summer Documentary Filmmaking youth programs in 2011 - one for middle schoolers and one for high schoolers. We recently received a generous contribution from CALIBRE to help support this program and are currently undertaking fundraising efforts to expand our youth programs even further.
Spearheading new programs. Docs In Progress is currently fundraising to help build the capacity of the nonprofit community by organizing a workshop on how nonprofits can use documentary storytelling to help convey the important field work they are doing in human services, education, health, environment, community development, and the arts. This program cannot happen unless we receive support from grantmakers and individual donors.
Continuing to do what we do best. If you have not visited the Docs In Progress website
in a while, click on the link. You can check it out for the latest on classes, workshops, expert talks, appreciation salons, webinars, fiscal sponsorship, screenings, and networking events.
Whatever you can afford to give will help Docs In Progress continue to support new and emerging documentary filmmakers and build a broader community through documentary.
Look forward to seeing you in 2011!
Best & Happy Holidays,
Erica Ginsberg
Executive Director
Docs In Progress
P.S. If you prefer to make an in-kind contribution, Docs In Progress welcomes donations of equipment which can be used for our production and Final Cut classes. Current needs are portable professional or prosumer HDV cameras in good working order and a large flat screen television for one of our training rooms.
If Santa was kind to you this year in upgrading your equipment and you are looking to find a good home (and get a tax writeoff) for some of your equipment which might be a few years old, please contact our Director of Operations, Sam Hampton at sam@docsinprogress.org to find out if Docs In Progress might make a good home for your donated equipment.
To support and/or learn more about Docs In Progress, visit http://www.docsinprogress.org/
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