AV logo design by Kimber Herndon
1 December 2015
Friends,
Every December 1st over the past nine years, I’ve officially opened the giving season through ARTvision on World AIDS Day... but a number of changes and challenges spurred me to press pause this year, on both ARTvision and the annual pizza party.
For seven of those nine years, we raised much-needed funds for Positive Impact (rebranded this year as Positive Impact Health Centers). PI the pre-eminent agency of its kind, providing mental-health and substance-abuse services to those affected by HIV in the metro Atlanta area.
As the year draws to a close, please consider supporting Positive Impact and all of their critical services and staff.
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After seven years of fundraising for PI, we made the touch decision to move to a new beneficiary. We’ll be starting our selection process early next year, and we should have a selection to announce in the spring of ’16. If you have a non-profit you’d like to nominate, please contact me directly.
I’ve also had some personal challenges that have hampered my ability to lead these events in a conscientious manner. My house has been under construction since April; and in July my house was robbed and I had a number of computers stolen. I wrote a post about it here.
So, 2016 will be a new year and a fresh start. Hopefully for all of us. In the meantime, whether you’re an artist or not—keep on creating. We still have a full month left in 2015 to make a difference.
Wishing all good things,
Will
