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'Dancing For Charity' Program

'Dancing For Charity'

Overview
VIP DANCE is excited to announce our new 'Dancing For Charity' Program. Simply by participating in a VIP Dance event, competitive dancers are given the opportunity to share their passion by dancing for the good of others. Here is how it works...

A charitable donation will be made for each and every routine that performs on the VIP Dance stage as well as for every single high score award, special award, and VIP List Top10 award presented. Dancers will continue to receive our famous "VIP Dance All Access Pass" award cards.

In addition, dancers will be presented with a beautiful medal for each routine highlighting the award and the charitable donation. The donations are as follows:

Donation Amounts
Adjudicated Awards $2
All Special Awards $2
High Score Awards $3
VIP List Top10 Awards $5

Selected Charities
VIP Dance will choose three charities to support each year. More information on each of these charities will be found on our website as the charities are selected. Selected charities will also be featured in our 2008 Program Books. If your studio wishes to select a charity of your own, VIP Dance will be more than happy to make a donation to that charity in the amount earned by your studio.

Donation Totals
Following the competition, charitable studio earnings will be totaled and posted on our website for viewing.

We hope that everyone will be as excited about this program as we are! We can't wait to donate in '08!!!

2008 CHARITIES
www.jdrf.org	The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF) is the leading charitable funder and advocate of type 1 (juvenile) diabetes research worldwide. The mission of JDRF is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. JDRF was founded in 1970 by the parents of children with type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is a disease which strikes children suddenly and requires multiple injections of insulin daily or a continuous infusion of insulin through a pump. Since its founding, JDRF has awarded more than $1 billion to diabetes research.
www.stjude.org	St. Jude is unlike any other pediatric treatment and research facility anywhere. Discoveries made here have completely changed how the world treats children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. We are where some of today's most gifted researchers are able to do more science, more quickly. Where doctors across the world send their toughest cases and most vulnerable patients. Where no one pays for treatment beyond what is covered by insurance, and those without insurance are never asked to pay. We've built America's 3rd-largest health-care charity, with a model that keeps the costs down and the funds flowing, so the science never stops.
www.danceusa.org	Dance/USA advances the art form of dance by addressing the needs, concerns and interests of the professional dance community. By providing services and national leadership, Dance/USA enhances the infrastructure for dance creation, education & dissemination. Dance/USA emphasizes the interconnectedness of dance organizations, artists, and administrators and is committed to exercising leadership to and for the dance field. Composed of almost 500 supporters of dance as an art form, Dance/USA offers four major program areas in service to the field: public communications, information services, professional development and special projects.