PSDF RR Fires

Rhythm Relief Fund

In January of 2024, Rhythm Relief is undertaking an effort to raise funds to aid swing dance community members affected by the Los Angeles fires.

50.29% Raised
$50,288.83 donated of $100,000.00 goal
269 Donors

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.

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.

473 Comments

  1. For Dancers Only, a swing dance venue in Sunnyvale California, has been collecting donations for the Rhythm Relief Fund at each of our regular dance events in January. This week we collected another $210 from our dancers, and are sending it along with our best wishes.

    Thanks again for all the work that you do to aid members of the dance community in their time of need.

    Sincerely,
    the coordinators of For Dancers Only
    Richard Perkins
    Margot Helm
    Tully Foote
    Katie Coleman

  2. Sending blessings for Grace and Ease in your recovery. My heart goes out to all who have been affected. I’d give more if I could.

  5. THANK YOU FOR ORGANIZING PSDF TO HELP THE DANCE COMMUNITY!
    —Sommer Gentry and Dorry Segev

  6. Thinking of our CA dance friends and wishing you the best during this difficult time. Frankie Manning Foundation, Board of Directors.

  9. Hello Rhythm Relief Fund coordinators. For Dancers Only, a twice monthly swing dance event in San Jose, CA, have committed to donating a portion of our ticket sales during the month of January to help support our fellow dancers who have been affected by the LA fires. At our first event of the new year we raised $209 from our dancers, so we are sending that along now. We will have one more event on January 31, and will send another donation shortly afterward.

    Thank you so much for coordinating this effort, and all the good work you have done since the fund started.

    Sincerely,
    The coordinators of For Dancers Only
    Richard Perkins
    Margot Helm
    Tully Foote
    Katie Coleman

  13. In memory of my father. Sending all those affected by the fires lots of love and good wishes.

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