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2007 Microgrants Awarded

 
Name Amount Purpose of Award
Clara Frazier $300 To bring Grace Marie to Grand Island, NE, March 16-18, 2007
Anne Stanwick $400 To rent the Masonic Temple for a day of dancing and dance leading by the 35+ dance leaders in the Colorado Region, May 27, 2007
Golden Gate Sufi Circle $300 To bring frame drummer Glen Valdez to the 2007 Mendocino Sufi Camp to lead two days of classes for beginning and intermediate drummers
Wali Perry Pike $300 travel grant to the New York Dance Parade and Dancing in the Streets events
Kathryn Sky $300 Travel grant to participate in the Dance Together Colorado event May, 2007
Tara Andrea Swierkosz $300 Travel and honorarium to lead a DUP retreat at Grand Island, NE Sept 7-9, 2007
Maboud Swierkosz $300 Travel and honorarium to lead a DUP retreat at Grand Island, NE Sept 7-9, 2008
Jorge Calero $300 To provide travel assistance to Tasnim Fernandez to lead a retreat in Colombia, SA "Reconnecting with Being" October 17 - 18, 2007
Open Hands, on behalf of various Virginia Dance Circles $300 To provide seed money for continuing quarter DUP events in Charlottesville, Roanoke, Lexington and Blacksburg, Virginia. Each community hosts a day of dances each quarter, with their own ideas and inspirations for a program. While each community is autonomous in what they offer, the communities share funds in this venture and can ask the community till for money to help with rent, postage, etc
Kevin Lockwood $300 Travel assistance to Uganda to lead DUP with HIV-positive children
Sande Hamilton $300 Space rental, travel support and misc. expenses for  "Arizona Dance Leader's Gathering - Seeing Through The Eyes of Unity."
Stuart McKinnon $325 Travel expense for leading DUP in Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton and other places
Talia Marcus $300 Independent study in mentoring with Darvesha McDonald
Arjuna Laerte Wilmann $300 Room rental, promotional costs and other expenses to bring Shabda Kahn to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 2008
Evansville, Indiana DUP $300 Travel and honorarium to bring Tasnim Fernandez to Evansville, June 2008
Kelsey Sheely $300 Equipment for creating a video documenting Arab/Israeli peace activists and the Dances of Universal Peace from 2007 tour of the Holy Lands
2007 Totals $4,925  
 

2006 Microgrants Awarded

Name

Amount

Purpose of Award

Wali & AriennetVan der Zwan

$300

Travel and honoraria Training in Southern France(Ariège, near Toulouse) April 28 – May 1, 2006.
Open Dance day with the local Community May 2nd 2006
Organised by: Josine Zon and  Roeland & Catherine (the local emerging teachers)

Charles Peterson

$300

Travel expenses to attend South American DUP Gathering, Lima, Peru, Feb 2006

Anne Stanwick

$300

Travel and honorarium for Anne to lead Dances at the Unitarian Church in Alamosa, Colorado; Extensive report filed!

Golden Gate Sufi Circle

$300

To support flyer production, postage and promotion for the Cazadero Sufi Camp

Shemmaho Jephi Sioux

$300

Travel and expenses to lead DUP at  2006 Fairy Congress in Washington

Shahodat Golomuz

$300

DUP Retreat with Russian leaders Karima (Moscow) and Shahodat (St-Petersburg) near Perm. Organized by Svetlana Malyutina

Taj Loreto Gonzalez

$300

Leader of the Dances for 28 years in Santiago, Chile to purchase a guitar

Grace Marie

$300

Funds to augment $900 travel award from ICC to attend INDUP organizational meeting in Europe

Stuart Allen

$300

Travel, space rental, advertising and musicians to establish and dance circle in Salida, Colorado

Harvey Amida

$300

Travel to extend South American trip to Venezuela for events organized by Abjini Arraiz

Vakil Forest Shomer

$170

To support travel and expenses for the Port Townsend DUP community to host the first local presentation of the Aramaic Lord's Prayer. Hafiz Lu Leland and Murad Phil Notermann will to teach a short afternoon workshop in preparation for an evening program of the complete Prayer.

Grace Marie

$300

To support travel and expenses for Grace Marie to present the Aramic Lord's Prayer in Riga, Latvia in September, 2006

Tajali Theresa Tolan

$300

To support travel to Virginia from Wisconsin to carry on planning for the All My Relations manual and Creative Arts for Peace Camp

Aeolea Burwell

$300

To lead a series of Dances of Universal Peace for inmates in Attica and Auburn prisons

Clara Frazier/Yoga Practices Center

$300

To bring Grace Marie to Grand Island, Nebraska Oct 6 & 7, 2006

Zubin Westrick

$300

To support DUP at peace festival in Arnhem, the Netherlands, Sept 2006

Tara Andrea Swierkosz

$300

To support taking the DUP into Santa Fe prison

Total

$4,970