The SPARC Development Committee to invite you to participate in SPARC’s spring auction scheduled for April 20, 2024 – April 27, 2024. The auction supports SPARC’s mission to profoundly influence young people’s lives through exceptional performing arts education. SPARC will reach an estimated 3,000 students in the coming year, but we cannot accomplish this without your help!

SPARC’s work is needed now more than ever to build and strengthen our youth’s social and emotional health that was deeply comprised during the pandemic. Our families have made it abundantly clear how important, relevant, and urgent SPARC programming – and the “safe space” of SPARC – is to their lives. Our priority is to ensure that youth across the Greater Richmond area have access, regardless of their ability to pay, to transformational quality performance arts education and creative youth development programs.

 
Over the past three years, SPARC has held three online auctions which helped raise approximately $65,000 for the organization. Our typical “bestsellers” include merchandise gift baskets, vacation or travel stays and packages, works of art, restaurant experiences and tastings, and similar items. We would greatly appreciate any donation you can make towards the auction this year, helping us continue the organization’s mission and support youth in the community.

Should you choose to join us, you and/or your business will receive substantial recognition -- on the auction website and SPARC channels including SPARC’s e-newsletter with 7,500+ subscribers, Instagram with 4,087 unique accounts, Facebook with 7,644 unique accounts, and SPARC’s website with 2,052 unique users per month.