Fundraising by our community members

Thank you to everyone who voted for our Creative Partners on Stage project on the Aviva Community Fund website.
Unfortunately we were up against some very tough competition and so failed to make it into the final round of judging. We'll get it next year!
Don't forget to keep checking back to see when tickets go on sale for Creative Partners on Stage production of the Sound of Music this coming March 2010.

This past month has seen 3 fundraising events here at Community Living Dufferin for our Building Dreams Together capital campaign.

Through the assistance of Thelma Fudge of Avon we sold 27 sets of hand blown glass Angel ornaments. With a profit of $4.00 per box set we raised $108.00 for BDT.

The Amaranth Lions have very generously named Building Dreams Together as the main benefactor of their annual Cash Calendar fundraising event. With 40% of the sales being donated to BDT, it's a potential $16,000.00 donation for our capital campaign. Thank you to the Amaranth Lions who have always been a great supporter of Community Living Dufferin with many of our fundraising events.

Our very own Joyful Voices choir hosted a Friends in Song Community Concert on November 22 at Orangeville District Secondary School. Accompanied by the wonderful voices of Shelburne's Forever Young Choir and the talented musicians of the Orangeville Community Band; Joyful Voices were successful in raising over $1,900.00 for BDT.

Thank you to each of you who purchased an Angel set, bought a calendar or attended the concert for your support in helping us to continue with our fundraising efforts.

You'll notice to the left of this post, photographs of our construction progress. Check back each week as we post the lastest photographs of the building as it takes shape over the next few months. With QPAC and Theatre Orangeville anticipating their move in date of March 2010, it will be exciting to watch as the building expands and takes form!

Aviva Community Fund

We are 3 days into Round 3 of the Aviva Community Fund competition.

Only the top 20 applicants will move to the Semi Finals.

We are sitting currently at 142 votes with only 10 days of voting left.

If we want to succeed in making it to the Semi Finals portion we will need to garner a minimum of 1500 votes.

Currently the top idea has secured 2406 votes.

The idea sitting in the coveted 20th spot has 953 votes.

Please go to the site and vote for us!

http://www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf3745

Aviva Community Fund

On the Aviva Community Fund site, we have created a page for our Creative Partners on Stage drama group in the hope of receiving funding for this program.

Here's a quick view of how it works:

The Aviva Community Fund competition is held in 3 phases to determine which ideas get funded:

Idea Entry, Semi-Finals, and Judging.

First, you vote for your favourite idea through November 29th. The 60 most popular ideas, along with 2 "buzz worthy" ideas, will move on to the Semi-Finals.

Then, people will vote for their favourite semi-finalist ideas from December 2nd through December 16th.

At the end of the Semi-Finals, votes will be tallied and the most popular 25 ideas will become finalists and move on to the Judging phase.

Now comes the best part! Judging will take place from December 17th through January 25th, our panel of judges will review all of the finalist ideas and rank them based on pre-determined criteria to determine which ones will be funded.

So now you know how it works, click here, do a quick registration; email and password, and then vote for our idea, you can vote each and every day, which of course we hope you will do, the more votes we gather, the better our chances!