The #MoveTogether Fund benefits Black artists, dancers, and musicians in the global Lindy Hop, Swing Dance and Blues Dance scene. Our goal is to raise at least $30,000! Let’s see how much we can raise to support the Black artists of our community! YES! Donations are tax-deductible!
THANK YOU for your generous support of #MoveTogether—you have my extreme gratitude!
Together we have raised more than $43,000 for the #MoveTogether movement! We surpassed our original fundraising goal of $30,000 by nearly 50%—thanks to all of you!
Thanks to everyone’s generous support, we are able to give more than $11,000 apiece to these three incredible organizations:
- Guardian Baltimore, led by Artistic Director Breai Mason-Campbell
- Cleveland Junior Jitterbugs, led by Valerie Salstrom
- Lindy Hoppers of the African Diaspora Fund for the Frankie Manning Foundation (a new social justice fund), led by Tena Morales-Armstrong & Julia Loving
This was quite an accomplishment! We are very proud of the impact that this is going to have in our dance community, as well as communities of color.
Please continue to donate to the Move Together Fund! Your future donations will go towards the continual development of next steps and future events. This is a movement, not a moment—and it still needs your support!
Stay tuned for future events! We’re working to ensure sure that we come back stronger!
Shaheed Qaasim and the #MoveTogether Team
Looking forward to much needed change!
Thankful for all the resources coming together to celebrate Lindy Hop and its history. Excited to learn about this beautiful dance.
Thank-you for putting this event together, and for helping to make change in the global swing dance community <3
Thank you for doing this powerful work. It is greatly needed.
Such a great organization and cause to support!
Black Lives Matter. I am proud to support this work.
Thank you for your work.
“Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.”
— Alvin Ailey
Really excited to be there for this talk and be part of moving our community forward. Huge thank you to everyone involved for all of your work!
Dance is a language that brings us all together no matter where we come from, or the color of our skin. I’m very proud of my friend for organizing this movement, and happy to be supporting. #MoveTogether
On board for shifting the culture of this community to honor and celebrate the roots of this dance!
I’m excited and honored to support this project, and looking forward to moving forward together as a dance community.
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Thanks for putting this together.
Shaheed: wonderful work! Love contributing to this kind of work in our community. Always open for collaborating in our blues community too. Much love!