Community Service and Fundraising

 

FUNDRAISING

Danceforce is again participating in several FUNdraisers this fall.  Please come out and show your support by eating out on the following days:

Fall JAMboree, Sunday, October 16  - Download Flyer  Fall JAMBoree   

**IMPORTANT!**

If the weather does not permit, the event will be moved to the BRAC gym (Bolingbrook Recreation and Aquatics Complex) on 200 S. Lindsey Lane. The time will remain from 2:00-5:00PM.  Please call the danceforce hotline on the morning of the event to confirm location (630) 783-6683**

Panda Express Night (Weber Road in Bolingbrook) - October 26 - Download Flyer  HERE 

Buffalo Wild Wings Night (Boughton Road by Meijer near I-355) - November 16 - Download Flyer  HERE 

***Flyer must be presented in order for Danceforce to receive any proceeds from your order.

 

WHAT IS DANCEFORCE DOING FOR THE COMMUNITY?

Here's what's coming up...
Danceforce participants take great pride in their volunteerism. Here is just some of the work that Danceforce will be doing in the community: 

This April 2011 Danceforce is again collecting Easter baskets for DuPage Township for the 8th year in a row! If you are not a Danceforce member however would like to donate a basket please drop it off at the BRAC (200 S. Lindsey Lane) by Wednesday, April 13th.


DONATION DRIVES
Danceforce hosts a number of donation drives for various needs in the community and abroad.
If you are interested in helping them, email apuzon@bolingbrookparks.org or kamante@bolingbrookparks.org.

Here's what Danceforce did this so far this year!
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER/DECEMBER: Over 150 coats (and gloves, hats, scarves) were collected to give to those in need during our Warm clothing drive.

NOVEMBER: The annual Project Thanksgiving was a huge success! The dancers met their goal of 40 meals this year and put baskets together with complete Thanksgiving dinners together for Bolingbrook families in need. Danceforce has provided over 200 families with Thanksgiving meals over the past ten years.

DECEMBER: Operation Christmas. Danceforce will put together Christmas stockings filled with goodies for Operation Christmas and will also collect necessary items for the Humane Haven.

Here are some highlights of what we've done...

Volunteer and charity work has always been an important part of the Danceforce program. The dancers visit nursing homes, senior centers, children’s hospitals and homeless shelters as a regular part of their season. Additionally, at the start of each season, the company forms “character crews” based upon their age and school, and study the six pillars of character from Character Counts! as a summer intensive each year, participating in activities, exercises, and outreach work that strengthens and reinforces character and values. In doing so, they learn about people, life and their responsibility to do everything they can in this lifetime to make this world a better place. This has made an incredible impact on their performances and the responsibility they feel toward their community and their world.

A History of Successful Service

  • $6000 contribution from their 2005 concert proceeds to Free the Children’s efforts to rebuild the schools and villages destroyed by the Tsunami in Sri Lanka.
  • $1000 contribution from their 2006 concert proceeds to Mississippi Park & Recreation Associations to support their efforts to rebuild the parks and recreation centers destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The dancers continued to send their love by shipping 135 Christmas gifts to the children in Mississippi and Louisiana just this past December.
  • Project Thanksgiving has provided over 130 less fortunate Bolingbrook families with a complete Thanksgiving dinner over the past seven years.
  • Adopt a Soldier – For the past two years, Danceforce has sent their love and encouragement to our soldiers overseas with gifts, toiletries, letters, candy and their most impressive gift of all, 473 cooling scarves, made by the dancers and parents and sent to our soldiers in Iraq to comfort them in the searing temperatures of summer 2006.
  • Collected and/or assembled fifty Easter baskets for children in need this past Easter, 2008.
  • Power Dance Project – this outreach program reaches nearly every school in the Bolingbrook community and continues to grow, but would not be possible without the volunteerism of dozens of dancers who assist in teaching these children dance and character education. Many dancers who started in Power Dance are now teachers.
  • Dancers performed for and spent time with the residents of Meadowbrook Manor in Naperville. This outreach and fellowship has provided the dancers and residents with incredible opportunities to build friendships and make a lasting impression on each other. The dancers continue to do performances and outreach work of this nature and welcome invitations.
    Soldier Pals: Beginning in September 2008, Danceforce has set up communication with specific soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are maintaining on-going communication, sending care packages their way and hopefully giving them the encouragement and love they need.

INFORMATION ON ALL OF THE UPCOMING EVENTS:
Call (630) 783-6631
Email Katrina Amante: kamante@bolingbrookparks.org