Rhythm Relief Fundraiser

Rhythm Relief Fund

In May of 2020, Rhythm Relief was created by Nick Williams in cooperation with PSDF to provide financial support to members of the swing dance community affected by COVID-19. In May of 2021, we decided to make the Rhythm Relief Fund a permanent program of Pacific Swing Dance Foundation—it’s clear to us that our community needs ways to raise and distribute financial support when disaster strikes. When you contribute to Rhythm Relief, your money is used to make grants to members of the swing dance community when they need financial help and to maintain the capability to respond in special circumstances. A portion of the funds—between 10% and 30%—are also used to help PSDF pay for the administrative expenses of a non-profit business. Those expenses cover things like accounting and financial compliance, paying administrative staff, IT expenses, etc.

70.10% Raised
$105,144.29 donated of $150,000.00 goal
1045 Donors

Nick Williams, in partnership with the Pacific Swing Dance Foundation, is throwing a spectacular live-stream swing show coming straight to your home. The purpose of the benefit show is to raise money for full-time swing dance instructors and full-time musicians who have been financially hit by Covid-19. The money raised in the show will compensate the performers for their time, and all additional funds raised will go to a fund for dancers and musicians. Any full-time dancer or musician will be able to apply for the funds we raise through PSDF.

Complete details are available at our Rhythm Relief page.

Patrons at or above the $50 level will receive an enamel pin from Pacific Swing Dance Foundation.

318 Comments

  3. Thanks for organizing this! Keeping all our talented dancers afloat has been on my mind a lot lately.

  4. Great work with the swingtacular show. Amazed that the band can play from their separate locations. A nice mix of interviews, dance shows and music!

  5. Enjoyed the show very, very much! Was so happy to see so many faces I know from Atomic Ballroom! Thank you to everyone involved, both on screen and behind the scenes. Looking forward to dancing again!

  6. To our colleagues and friends, we’ll get through this! Chin up! -Fancy & Albert

  7. Wonderful music and dancing!
    I hope you raise a lot of money through this relief event and hope you’ll all host another again soon (maybe twice a year or even quarterly?).

    The host/ MC was gracious and had a very welcoming presence (Nick?) – it helped set a great tone for many of us who are new to these virtual dance / music events.

  8. Thank you so much for putting together a spectacular show and for keeping the swing dance community going even when we can’t be together.

  11. Lindy Hop and vernacular jazz dance has been a social, artistic, athletic, and creative outlet for me for me since 2003 and I can not quantify the ways these dances and communities have changed and enriched my life. Thank you to all of you who make this community so special.

  12. so grateful to the organizers for doing this, thank you thank you thank you. ’till we dance again!

  14. Thank you all for striving to make swing dance community such a joyful place to be

  15. Dancing is what usually keeps me sane, so I need you guys even more once life gets back to normal! Just imagine the atmosphere of that first post-lockdown social dance…

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