Non-Profit Foundation - Track Town Swing

Thank you for your interest in Track Town Swing! A primary goal of ours is to provide educational outreach and facilitate complete access for those who would otherwise not have been able to participate due to financial restrictions. We have created and registered our non-profit with that purpose in mind! Please consider donating to our cause by clicking on the button below. Additional information can be found on this page – please contact us with any additional questions. Thank you again for your support!

501(c)(3) Tax Exemption:

The Track Town Swing Foundation is currently a registered non-profit with the state of Oregon. We were approved for 501(c)(3) Tax Exempt status December 2018. All donations made to us are tax deductible. If you would like to assist and become a sponsor, please donate by clicking the button below!

If you are interested in applying for our tuition program, please contact us by CLICKING HERE!

If you are interested in volunteering at one of our events or assisting Track Town Swing, please contact us by CLICKING HERE!

CURRENT PROJECTS:

Community support is crucial to our continued involvement in the growing Swing Dance world. We have 2 major projects currently underway:

Track Town Throwdown (Swing Dance and Jazz Music Festival): Our current large project is the production of our first weekend event. This event celebrates swing dance and jazz music by bringing in world class instructors and musicians. It also celebrates Eugene by encouraging people to support local landmarks and businesses. We are actively seeking sponsorship for this event to keep attendance costs accessible to our great community. For more information please check out the event website.

COMPLETED PROJECTS:

Thanks to your support we were able to successfully complete these projects:

Licensing, Fees, and venue costs: Currently we are dealing with many expenses related to LEGALLY running holding our dances and classes in 2019. Music licensing, liability insurance, and web hosting costs us $100s of dollars each year. Also, the cost of renting space for our dances has gone up over 30% in 2018 alone. Without venue costs we need to raise at least $650 to cover costs before start operating again in 2019. COMPLETED February 2019

Live Music Event with Large Big Band: We have the opportunity to showcase Blue Skies Big Band at our monthly live music dance event on May 11, 2018. They are a local twenty piece band that we have been fortunate to have donate time to our events in the past. If we want to keep bringing them to our events we need to be able to pay them for sharing their talents with us. The total cost to undertake the endeavor is approximately $1100. As always, we strive to raise as much money as possible to cover the upfront costs of the band, event space, etc. By fundraising in advance, we are also able to keep the admission affordable. COMPLETED March 19th, 2018

Lindyfest and Further Education: Our volunteers work incredibly hard. We’d like to help them improve their current dance abilities by sending them to Lindyfest in Houston, Texas (March 15-18, 2017). This event features workshops from 15 internationally known swing dance instructors and endless opportunities for our amazing volunteers to sharpen their teaching skills and provide them with even more knowledge to pass on to the rest of our dance community. This goal requires us to raise money for travel and accommodation – approximately $1400. If we are able to achieve that goal, we have the opportunity to have help covering the added cost of tuition from our colleagues at the Frankie Manning Foundation. COMPLETED March 19th, 2018

Live Music Event with Special Guest Instructor: We have the opportunity to share our upcoming March dance event with a guest instructor on March 3rd, 2018. This will provide the added benefit of focusing on alternate Swing Dance teaching methods and continue to keep our community on their toes! As this will coincide with our monthly live dance event, the total cost to undertake the endeavor is approximately $1500. As always, we strive to raise as much money as possible to cover the upfront costs of the band, event space, etc. By fundraising in advance, we are also able to keep registration fees much lower. COMPLETED March 3rd, 2018