Building Fund Raiser

Wind Dance Farm & Earth Education Center

Building Fund Raiser

Building Fund Raiser update:  As of November 2011 1we raised $18,000!

$131,000 to go!

We are making strides!

Thank you all who have contributed thus far.

For more information read below:

Wind Dance Farm & Earth EducationCenter is having its annual fund raiser!   We have the opportunity to grow, and we are asking for your help to contribute financially.  A new facility will be built that will have a spacious learning center, an agricultural room with an attached greenhouse, and a loft for housing two farm interns.  Following is the 2011 campaign letter.

November 18, 2011

Dear Friends,

Wind Dance Farm & Earth Education Center is celebrating TEN YEARS!  Since 2001 we have provided programs to 170 homeschool enrolled participants, 378 summer campers, one local school group, and 108 Community Supported Agriculture shares, while providing service to one earth.  Our programs are varied and vibrant, with the health of the earth and people in the forefront.  As we continue to provide homeschool and summer camp programs for youth, and organic food to CSA members, we are expanding to include adult offerings.  We held our first on-site adult workshop this fall – a farm tour, gourmet lunch by a local chef using Wind Dance products, and making beeswax hand cream – which was hosted by our teen homeschoolers. The adults really enjoyed themselves and requested to return.    Future plans include more adult workshops, an adult camp, a farm camp for youth, and environmental education programs for local schools.

As our plans grow, we continue to outgrow our space.  With new wiring, improved lighting, and a fresh coat of paint, our basement has become a bright and sunny learning place, however, it is getting smaller as we get bigger.  We need to construct a new building dedicated to our educational endeavors.  During the past two years we have received generous gifts totaling $18,000.  Your contributions are being held in an account designated to support an education building, which will begin development in 2012.

We are grateful for the gifts received in the past, and with this, our annual appeal, we seek your continuing help.  Please consider supporting Wind Dance – and the current and expanding programs focusing on a healthy people and planet – with a donation.  All funds received will go towards supporting a new education building and are tax deductible.

To learn more about the offerings of Wind Dance please visit our website: winddancefarm.org.   You are also welcome to call or email, and, if you have never been to Wind Dance, please visit!  It is a peaceful and delightful place.

Below is a return slip and envelope.  Also on the website is an invitation to a Community Barn Dance, on December 11, 2011, celebrating ten years. We would love to see you there!

Wishing you all many blessings,

Leslie & John

WDF&EEC is a non-profit tax deductible organization

Board Members invaluable to Wind Dance are:

Sandy Kaye      Gary Stewart      Angela Petry      Kris O’Brien

Tim Newton      John Devine      Leslie Devine-Milbourne

Please return the following portion with your contribution.  WDF&EEC is a non-profit tax-deductible 501c3.

Print Your Name ______________________________________        Date __________________

Address  _______________________________________________________________

Email (please include so we can update you on our efforts) _____________________________________

Please write checks to WDF & EEC and circle your tax-deductible contribution of choice:

$10            $25           $35           $50           $75

$100          $250         $300         $500         $1,000           Other  ________

If you know of some folks who may appreciate what we are doing, please let them know about our fundraiser!

Wind Dance Farm & Earth Education Center

649 Virginia Line Rd

Berkeley Springs, West Virginia 25411

Winddance.org       304 258 4672

Thank you for your thoughtful support!

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