It has raised $5,000 for Full Radius Dance. And $5,000 for gloATL dance company’s Hippodrome, coming to the Goat Farm Arts Center in March.
The “it” in this case is power2give.org, an online cultural marketplace designed in Charlotte in 2011 and adapted recently by the city of Atlanta’s Office of Cultural Affairs. It connects donors with dance, theater, visual arts, music, literary and media arts nonprofits that the OCA has vetted. Donations begin at $1.
The kicker is that the OCA will match all funds up to $2,500 per project (for a total of $5,000). The city has allotted $220,000 for this fiscal year. Online donors can go to the power2give website to see projects in need of funding and sort by project, category (dance, theater, music) or see the list of specific organizations working with power2give. Online donations are secure.
Projects seeking funding include the August Wilson Academy at True Colors Theatre Company, Synchronicity Theatre’s upcoming production of A Year With Frog & Toad and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Talent Development scholarship program.
Projects appear on the site for 90 days or until the organization has met its financial goal for the listed project (whichever comes first).
Other project that have already reached the 100 percent goal include the Urban Youth Harp Ensemble, Young Audiences (Woodruff Arts Center) and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia.
