WHY SUPPORT DANCESPORT EDUCATION
DanceSport Education • October 7, 2017
We Help Young and Developing DanceSport Athletes
WE SUPPORT YOUNG AND DEVELOPING DANCESPORT ATHLETES
DanceSport Education™ is a not-for-profit is a 501 (c) (3) organization, which promotes excellence in education through highest quality extracurricular activities. We impact the lives of children and youth through ballroom dance education - we build a strong foundation for lifelong skills. We also exist to reach out, create, develop and support DanceSport competitive talent.
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As a sport, DanceSport is a relatively new sport in the U.S. and dancesport athletes do not receive the financial backing and support like their peers in other established sports. We are dedicated to the success of the young and developing DanceSport athletes. We want them to continue to learn, grow and develop competitively and remove any financial barriers that might stand in their way to get noticed, realize their talent and succeed at the top.
Your contribution to the General Donation Fund supports directly young and developing DanceSport athletes in the following ways :
1. Student scholarships for:
✔ Competitive group and private instruction;
✔ DanceSport competition participation, including travel, competition registration fees, professional and coaching fees, hotel accommodations, etc.;
✔ Mastery camps participation;
✔ Intensive workshops participation;
✔ Coaching sessions;
✔ Cross training participation;
✔ Sports psychology training;
✔ Competition gear – competition attire and shoes.
2. Continuous competitive DanceSport Education program improvements (curriculum and instruction) and
continuous professional development through:
✔ DanceSport athletic curriculum development and refinement;
✔ DanceSport athletic instructional methodology development and refinement;
✔ Teacher professional development programs to continually improve the quality of athletic instruction;
✔ Developing and implementing a cross training curriculum for our young DanceSport athletes to improve strength, agility, endurance and injury prevention;
✔ Developing a DanceSport cross training curriculum for competitive athletes, including Middle and High School competitive athletes.
WE NEED YOUR INVOLVEMENT AND SUPPORT
Your financial support will directly help existing and developing DanceSport athletes by funding need and talent-based scholarships for children and youth. Right here in Arizona we have talented, dedicated to the sport, young and developing athletes. Unprecedented, two of our Arizona born and raised DanceSport athletes, were selected to be part of the United States Junior Team at the World Cup Championship in Blackpool, England. They are not only top level athletes, but also A+ students! They are a live testimony of the positive, life-time impact of ballroom dance. With your support, we will be able to increase the number of competitive athletes from 2 to 10 and provide full and partial need and talent-based scholarships for them.
Donation Wishlist
$500
✔ Covers the registration cost for 1 DanceSport athlete to a competition in the US; or
✔ Provides 1 DanceSport athlete with group and individual instruction for 1 year; or
✔ Covers 2 competition dresses; or
✔ Covers 6 pairs of kids ballroom dance shoes
✔ Covers 4 pairs of boy’s competition pants; or
$1,000
- ✔ Covers the registration cost for 1 DanceSport couple to a competition in the US.
$5,000
- ✔ Provides 1 DanceSport athlete with advanced individual and group instruction for 1 year.
WAYS TO GIVE
DanceSport Education, which is an Arizona, not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) organization and contributions are tax-deductible. Any amount you wish to donate is appreciated! We provide several opportunities to support our organization:
Cash and Checks:
Please, send a check to:
DanceSport Education
604 E Balboa Dr.
Tempe AZ, 85282
Credit Card:
We accept all major credit cards: American Express, Visa, Master Card and Discover.
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Proud to Show What Our AZ Autism Charter School Students CAN Do!!!
Every day, our committed employees work to support the community we serve. Now, they need our help. Our organization is committed to ensuring that our employees are able to maintain financial stability and provide day-to-day necessities for their families during the coronavirus crisis. We bring the benefits of ballroom dance to the students at their schools, in their classrooms. But due to COVID outbreak, Arizona schools are now mandated to close through the end of the school year and out employees have lost their source of income. Their situation is further aggravated by the Stay-At-Home order issued for the state of Arizona. Our organization’s most urgent goal is to retain our highly qualified and specially trained personnel, who work with children with autism. Such personnel is rare to find and costly to train and retain. Under normal circumstances, our professionals are long-term committed to the program – however if we lose them because of the COVID-19 disaster, it would be virtually impossible to reinstate the program. Retaining our personnel is critical not only to the existence of the program, but also to the ultimate recipient – children with autism in a school set-up. We kindly ask that you join us in supporting our dedicated employees. Your gift will help provide immediate financial support so they can purchase essential food, medicines, and other supplies. Help keep our employees safe and healthy so they can eventually return to their work serving our community.
INVEST IN US! Let me share why you should invest in us. We are a small 501(c)(3) non-profit and we bring the benefits of ballroom dance to the students, at their schools, in their classrooms with the highest level of instruction! We make the art of ballroom dance affordable and accessible to all students, especially for those that are low income and at risk. This year, for the first time in Arizona we are bringing the benefits of ballroom dance to 230 K-12 students with autism at the Arizona Autism Charter Schools. It is Arizona's Only Autism-Focused Tuition-Free Charter public school. Students enrolled at this school are on the autism spectrum with varying degrees of intellectual/developmental disabilities. AZ Autism Charter School serves over 40% low income students. 15% of the students are African-American,1% American Indian, 5% - Asian, 51% - Hispanic and 28% white. The ballroom dance experience at the school is part of the students’ project-based life skills curriculum. Many studies and research findings have supported the positive implication of dance therapy to people with autism. We are at the school 4 days /week, delivering 40 ballroom dance classes every week. The impact of ballroom dance that we see is INCREDIBLE, especially with the highest impacted students! We take so many things for granted, including the ability to move, speak, coordinate our body and socialize. Our students need to learn all this, and the art of ballroom dance is helping them tremendously. These students enjoy, love and thrive in our classes. Until our program, they had no such opportunity available to them, alone an opportunity to express themselves in public and show what they CAN do. Please help us get the full $3,000 match by making your tax-deductible donation today. The funds will be used for rehearsals and extended support during their public event performances. This is an unprecedented commitment toward these students with special needs. They want and need to show to the public what they CAN do. This is the first of such successful efforts in Arizona! These students need your support! Say "YES" to them! We are their HOPE! All #AzGivesDay donations are *tax-deductible and will go toward rehearsals and extended support during their public event performances. Please help us get the full $3,000 match by making your tax-deductible donation today. THANK YOU! We are sincerely grateful for those who support our mission and enable us to bring the benefits of ballroom dance to the students with special needs, at their schools, in their classrooms. www.azgives.org/DanceSportEducation *The $2 trillion stimulus package includes the Charitable Giving Incentive, which lifts the existing cap on annual contributions for those who itemize, raising it from 60 percent of adjusted gross income to 100 percent. For corporations, the bill raises the annual limit from 10 percent to 25 percent. Elka Hristova Co-Founder and Director DanceSport Education
