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Pledge Challenges:
Since Nov 16 is my birthday and I will be 77 then, I will pledge $77.00 to the IASD fund.
- Bob Van de Castle
Well, my boys will be 23 at 15th, than I had to pledge $23 to the fund. - Ilkin Sungu
I pledge 25 dollars; especially because I feel I don't have it 'to spare'; it means I need to let go of something.
May dreams lead us all to the prosperity we need; and may an abundance of love and acceptance be there for all.
- Victoria
As I did last year, I will pledge to IASD a dollar a dream for the period from 12/1/03 to 11/30/04. I challenge others to do likewise! (especially the more prolific dreamers!) - Curt Hoffman
IASD will already receive administrative fees from the grant that Tallulah and I will be implementing. Additionally, I pledge $1,000 of what I will receive to this pledge campaign IF two other people will match 50 cents on the dollar ($500 each) to this effort.
Wendy
$500 to fund conference participation for an African American/Native American student who will present a paper at the Berkeley conference. Looking for matching funds to provide outreach to a part of our dreaming family not often represented at IASD conferences!
Anonymous Donor
I'm pledging $500 as a matching gift to the "Anonymous Donor" who is appealing for funds to sponsor African American/Native American students to present papers at our next international conference.
My gift is in honor of,and gratitude to, several longtime IASD members and supporters:
Loma Flowers, Gayle Delaney's partner in Delaney & Flowers, and one of the earliest backers of the fledgling organization, and its first Chair of the Board, as I recall.
Helen Carter, my dear friend and "sister", who spent years in active service to ASD at the Vienna Central Office, acting as Corresponding Secretary, and Treasurer to the entire association. No one will ever know how many hours she worked to help ASD and me, and no words could convey enough thanks!
Edward Bruce Bynum, who won my admiration at the second conference at UVA, whose ideas, books and poems stretched my views of African Americans, their deep respect for family and dreams, and for their being the cradle in which dreaming together found tender nurturance.
All those whose names cannot be contained here, but who kept dreaming alive and active in their hearts and homes. Rita Dwyer
Response to a Pledge Challenge
I want to make a conditional pledge in response to another conditional pledge:
If there is someone else who will pledge $500,- in response to Wendy's challenge, I will pledge the other $500,-.
I want to mention the background of my pledge. A woman in my dreamwork training program died recently, just after she had finished her final paper, which was all about how she used her dreams to cope with her cancer. In one of our last talks she showed her willingness to die and indicated that the dreams and her working with dreams had been very important in this, the last, phase of her life.
It seems fitting to honour her life and death by responding to Wendy's challenge which was made possible by (apart from Wendy's generosity) the grant for research for dreams and cancer.
Tjitske Wijngaard
Tjitske--
I was so moved by your comments. I want to speak with you about your friend and what she wrote. I am sure what she has written can live on and help other cancer patients cope with life and death. This is such important information that needs to be gathered and shared!
And your generosity and caring are a true gift as well, to IASD, this project and to me.
Wendy
Now to the Dreams and additional pledges....click here.
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