No Strings Attached

Posted By Kathleen David on October 1, 2011

Shana is Peter’s eldest daughter. She and her husband have a dream to run a movie theater with a restaurant attached. It is a good dream.

They need money to get this dream from pie in the sky to reality. And they have been working hard to get this into reality.

They are about half way through their funding needs and this is the last week of the drive to get the money to see their dream happen.

I have known Shana more than half her life. I am very proud of all she has accomplished. I love her very much.

Here is where I need YOUR HELP. Yeah, money towards the funding would be great if you can do it but we keep hearing about social networking and helping the little guy get a leg up over those greedy corporations.

So I am ask you to put your mad social networking skillz and contacts to help us get her to that goal. We hear about other people who succeed at this because of the kindness of others and I would love for this to be another one of those stories.

Here is the link to the fund raising site. Please spread it far and wide.

http://www.ulule.com/5pointstheatre/

Here is Shana’s latest letter on the subject

Happy Friday!
If you’re reading this email it’s because you have kindly allowed yourself to be hassled about a project that is much needed in Riverside, the takeover, rebranding, and renovation of the 5 Points Theatre. Through your support and that of other residents and businesses Tim and I have raised over $46,000 on our crowdsourcing site at ulule. That’s pretty impressive, except that our goal is more than twice that and we only have a week to pull this off. As of this writing we have 142 “supporters,” and I know at least one of those is my grandma. Consider that Riverside and Avondale have what, 25,000 people and when you add Downtown, Springfield, West Jax, and Ortega you’re at 250,000. Dangit, I just don’t think that Jacksonville’s representing the way it oughta.
For the sake of our hood, please spread the word far and wide. Remind people this restoration likely will not happen if we can’t raise the funds. Let them know this ain’t a donation, you can buy two tickets and a tub of popcorn for only $25, lifetime movies or a year’s worth of onscreen ads for $1000, or have the best company Christmas party ever for a cool $10k, with lots of great incentives in between.
To break it down:
If 2000 people drop that 25 bucks we’re set. 500 people could buy a card that gets them into 10 movies and we’d be there. Or 50 people at $1000. We don’t have a second shot at this. The kind folks at Ulule gave us this rare opportunity to extend our campaign so let’s all get on the Facebook, the Tweeting, and the guilt tripping because next Friday it’s all over.
Power to the people!
Shana

I think if we can get this done for her, it would be amazing. We talk about young people having no drive well here are two that are putting it all out there for all to see.

So short version:
Money good. Social Network blast really good.

Let’s prove the urban myth true.

I am grateful for everyone who helps us with this.

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