BUCKS FOR BOARDS – Help the Fort Dupont Ice Arena
HockeyCat.com supports this effort to help out Fort Dupont Ice Arena, a non-profit rink. While we all know that many rinks don’t make a profit, this one is designed that way. Please help out in anyway you can. Hockey will never take off in the US unless it is available to everyone regardless of income.
The group needs $50,000 to do this. In sporting terms that is about half of the fine for instigating a fight in the new NHL or the cost of one of the new Composite Sticks.
Any size contribution will help, but if someone wanted to come up with the whole $50K, I am sure no one would complain.
If you own oil stocks, you need a tax-deduction right now, don’t you?
Here is the information provided by Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena.
Did you know?
· that Fort Dupont Ice Arena is operated by a nonprofit organization, Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena?
· that the Friends of FDIA has a free community skating program that serves over 10,000 children each year with Learn to Skate, Hockey, Speed and Advanced Figure Skating classes?
· that half of FDIA’s annual budget is met through donated funds from people like you who want to help share the love of skating sports?
· the Fort Dupont Ice Arena facility is 30 years old and the dasher boards are almost that old?
· That a donation from you for this purpose will be matched by two area foundations – thus doubling the amount of money you give?
We need to replace our dasher boards when we close for annual maintenance next April/May. This project will cost $100,000. We have received $25,000 grants from two area foundations, The George Preston Marshall Fund and the Philip L. Graham Fund. However, we must match these grants by raising an additional $50,000 from individual and corporate donors.
Please help by making a tax deductible donation.
Make checks payable to Fort Dupont Ice Arena and mail to
Fort Dupont Ice Arena
3779 Ely Place, SE
Washington, DC 20019
or turn in at the concession stand or to the manager on duty at the rink. Or, make a secure credit card donation online at
http://www.fdia.org.
All donors receive a tax receipt. All individual donations received between December 1 2005 and March 31, 2006 will be used towards replacing the dasher baords.