Greetings!
Missed the 1st December newsletter? Get it here and its related blogpost that describe our virtual programming and mutual aid work.
In this newsletter #2, and its related blogpost, you can again see the breadth and depth of PortSide's positive impact this difficult year.
We created a restful popup park that served THOUSANDS of people of all ages with furniture and flowers, sprinkler and toys, books, games, and music and received effusive thanks from kids, exhausted parents, locals and visitors. The space was also essential to Governors Island ferry operations.
We enabled the production of a new opera about Black civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer that is being distributed nationally in free educational and GOTV efforts by the prestigious Santa Fe Opera.
We advanced the historic preservation of our flagship MARY A. WHALEN (more about that in the next newsletter and blogpost!).
Pease support us with a year-end donation, with whatever you can. How to do that here.
Since our last newsletter, the Department of Cultural Affairs announced their awards and will NOT be funding us this year. That’s a loss of $40,000 we expected (and have received from them before) for a total drop of $55,000 in anticipated City funding due to covid’s impact on the City budget.
Please help make up the shortfall and donate here.
Did you know that, due to the CARES Act, you can take a charitable deduction of up to $300 for cash contributions made in 2020 even if you don’t itemize your deductions?
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Check out some heatwarming photos below.
Stay strong! Brooklyn Strong. And have a safe and happy holidays!
Best,
