All donations are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law, and will help us move our work and our community forward strongly. Make a one-time donation now with Paypal’s Secure Online Payment System:
Or make monthly recurring donations an a CGP Ever-Ready Partner (learn more):
We believe strongly that the arts are a precious cultural commodity. Support for the arts is an investment in our community’s vibrancy, richness, intelligence, and character.
CGP Summer 2012 Funding Initiative
Control Group needs to raise $4,000 by the end of June to take advantage of some amazing opportunities and to keep on track for great growth at our new home.
Please check out:
Our Letter to Donors outlining our goals, needs, and recent successes.
Our Business Sponsorship opportunities.
Click the “Donate” button above to make a donation by credit card.
To contribute by check, make check payable to ‘Control Group Productions’ and send it to:
Control Group Productions
4715 Perry St.
Denver, CO 80212
Campaign Update (June 21):
IndieGoGo $661
Direct Donation $1,570
Ever-Ready Partners $200
CURRENT TOTAL: $2,431
GOAL: $4,000
What you’re funding? See below…
Why support us? See below…
Tax exemption? See below…
CURRENT FUNDING INITIATIVES.
On the road, on the floor, with boots on the ground, CGP needs you now! Our 501c3 couldn’t have come at a better time. With the new venue and new developments in Control Group’s activities, we need your help to take advantage of all the great stuff going on:
Share CGP with Durham, NC. Control Group is performing at the American Dance Festival this summer (yes, we know, RIGHTEOUS!), and we need your help to get the company to Durham, NC this July! $1,500 will bring our 4-person company to Durham for a week of performances, participation at ADF, and networking opportunities for further touring.
More floor! Our new venue is bigger (and badder!), and to get it fully outfitted we need to expand our flooring. We’ve received a generous loan of dance flooring from Mary Lynn Lewark to help us through the next couple months. $2,000 will purchase the dance linoleum and plywood to complete the permanent installation.
ON-GOING FUNDING NEEDS
work|space Denver, CGP’s new peformance venue. Control Group has a new theater! In the heart of Denver’s RiNo (River North) Arts District, in partnership with experimental theatre company The LIDA Project, ensconced in Wazee Union’s new management project The Laundry on Lawrence, Control Group’s new home will provide continued vibrancy and growth for innovation in live arts.
There’s still a lot to be done to make our new home as powerful and awesome as it has the potential to be. NOW IS THE TIME! A donation to CGP right now will ensure a successful first year and sustainable growth in the future!
There is no lie or hyperbole in the statement that our New Facility Project can change the face of the arts in this state. Our new center will be the home to our vibrant community of innovative and experimental artists, and it will be a magnet for
companies across the country and around the world. It can and will completely change the dialogue about the arts in Denver, in Colorado, in the Western Region. We’re already doing it. Please, help us take it to the next level.
WHY SUPPORT CGP?
Two basic premises underpin our belief in the value of and the need for our activities: ART MAKES BETTER HUMANS and BETTER HUMANS MAKE A BETTER WORLD. These are not assumptions; in fact, they have borne out repeatedly in studies of the role of the arts in economic vitality, the effects of arts in schools on students’ academic performance, and the direct relationship between regularity of aesthetic experiences and quality of life. Art cannot replace food, water, shelter, and health; but it can help create a culture where those needs are more available because the economy is more robust, the culture is more open and thoughtful, and people are more highly educated and capable.
The Denver/Boulder/Front Range community that we serve is not comprehensively starved for art. Rather, the local arts communities (like that of any locality) have strengths and weaknesses, surpluses and gaps in their offerings to the broader society. CGP ’s inception and development have been needs-driven. We have identified areas within Colorado’s growing arts culture that desperately demand attention, and have structured our programs to answer unfulfilled needs. We provide a platform for local artists to innovate, for emerging artists to grow, for hungry audiences to experience unique new works, for professionals and aspiring professionals to advance their skills, and for artists and audiences to participate in the evolving global arts dialogue. By doing these things we serve the whole local arts community by making it more expansive and robust; by doing that, we serve the well-being of the entire local culture.
TAX EXEMPTION
CGP has just received a not-for-profit designation with the IRS. This means that all direct donations (financial and material) are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
To contribute by check:
Make check payable to ‘Control Group Productions’. Send to:
Control Group Productions
4715 Perry St.
Denver, CO 80212
CGP’s budget mixes earned income from events and rehearsal rentals with charitable giving from individuals and organizations. Individual giving is crucial to our non-profit funding. Among other things, it allows us to apply for matching funds through a broad array of public and private granting organizations, keeping our finances robust through diversified funding. Please help us keep our arts community moving forward!
