Support Juneteenth Event

Planning for the fourth annual Juneteenth event in La Crosse is going on now. Can you help? Donate? Table? Sponsor? Here's the ask:

JUNETEENTH & AUGUST BALL

Event Hosts: 

-Hope Restores https://hoperestoreswi.org/

-Black Leaders Acquiring Collective Knowledge (B.L.A.C.K.)  

https://www.blacklax.org/

-Enduring Families Project Enduring Families Project 

-Black Student Leaders

Partner Opportunities:

Please fill out this Link to sign up to partner.  PARTNERING LINK

Your partnership would help provide entertainment, food, speakers,  historical education, community building,  and family friendly and youth activities.  Your partnership can be (1) monetary, (2) an in-kind donation, (3) hosting a table at the event, and/or (4)  recruiting volunteers for the event. 

Monetary Donations (tax deductible):

Checks can be made payable to Black Leaders Acquiring Collective Knowledge (B.L.A.C.K) with  “Juneteenth Celebration” in the memo line and mailed to Black Leaders Acquiring Collective Knowledge, P.O.  Box 694, La Crosse, Wisconsin 54602.  

Link:   JUNETEENTH MONETARY DONATIONS 

Thanking Partners: Because your donations benefit this region and beyond, we would like to say thank you: 

● Donations $100-$499—receive free event tabling at the Juneteenth event 

● Donations $500 and more—receive free event tabling at the Juneteenth event, your organization’s name on the event t-shirt and acknowledgment from the event stage

● In-kind donations—recognized on social media and from the event stage

THANK YOU for your consideration and we look forward to your support of this important historic community  event! Feel free to contact us with questions.  

HISTORY:

Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. This  Holiday Commemorates June 19, 1865 when the last of enslaved people heard they were free. It is a US Federal  Holiday. 

The August Ball commemorates the August 1, 1887 Emancipation Day celebrating the liberation of enslaved  people, first in the Caribbean, and then eventually the end of slavery in this country. This Ball has historic roots in its past celebration in the La Crosse community. 

Sincerely,  

Shamawyah Curtis, 

Hope Restores 

Shaundel Spivey, B.L.A.C.K. 

Denise Christy Moss, 

Enduring Families Project 

Chaya Davis, 

Black Student Leaders