Fundraising
Dear Sisters and Friends~
We hope that this letter finds everyone happy and well! The Women’s Spirituality Forum is up and running again! Z is back from Hungary, after a very successful hip surgery. We are very excited to continueserving the women’s spirituality community by offering workshops, lectures, the Goddess 3k festival in 2006, and Dianic University, an online women’s spirituality school and community.
However, for the first time in 33 years, the Women's Spirituality Forum is in danger of losing solvency. We need money! In the past we had a friendly philanthropist who fished us out of trouble occasionally, but she is no more! We are grateful for the unconditional support we have received in the past, and of course for the hundreds and hundreds of women who bought tickets to our events and products, but now we are in a bind.
WSF has offered the Goddess community an abundance of services. We have produced fifteen Goddess 2k and 3k Festivals, five conferences, monthly gatherings on Sundays at the Montclair Women's Club in the nineties, and Spiral Dances for two decades at the Women's Building in San Francisco. We have also produced Videos, Cds, Books, and in the past year have started an Online Dianic University. This is just a short list of what the WSF has stood for and accomplished!!!
In the past Z has raised most of the money with her own labors for producing the events. It was her energy and vision that has attracted the fine teachers who were featured at these events, from all kinds of traditions. However, now that Z has reached the Crone age, she wants to write and teach more and organize less.
So besides money, which is necessary to produce any Women's Spirituality event, we need volunteers to help to FUND RAISE for the Women’s Spirituality Forum.
We also need volunteers to organize the Goddess 3k festival, computer help on an ongoing basis, a new computer printer, and folks with grant-writing experience to help lend a hand. If a volunteer has a project that they are personally wanting to write a grant for, we are happy to assist by offering our nonprofit status as an umbrella organization for all goddess related productions.
The Women's Spirituality Forum has been a starting point and a mother for many priestesses and is now in need of some loving herself. A new breed of volunteering women must come together and take up the Women's Spirituality flag. We need money to be able to continue! This is our first fundraising letter in 30 years. We were always able to raise money with successful events before. This is a new phase. A new period must begin.
Tithing was an ancient custom from Isis worship in Egypt. It was a way to show respect to the divinity, and to give thanks. In this spirit, please volunteer or write a check to the WSF to help give a mighty wind underneath our wings.
Thank you and may springtime bring deep transformation and renewed grace!
Blessed be!
Z Budapest, Jamie Isman, and The Women’s Spirituality Forum
Please send donations to:
Z Budapest
c/o Women's Spirituality Forum
2927 Harrison St Oakland 94611
