Pacific Swing Dance Foundation

This weekend we’re reuniting with friends at California Balboa Classic ! On Sunday, PSDF and CalBal are paying tribute to Marge Takier.

https://facebook.com/events/s/celebration-of-life-for-marge-/1546038413182005/

If you’re at CalBal, please stop by the PSDF booth (across from the registration booth), read a bit about Marge and sign our memorial book. Our PSDF archive team did a wonderful job paying tribute to a woman who helped keep the swing dance fire burning.

Great news! The digitizing process is well under way for the Legacy Library.

Thankfully we’ve raised enough money to digitize the collection.
Help us get to $15k by Friday!

In order to get footage like this into the library, we have a lot more fundraising to do.

Any contribution you can make helps. $5, $10, $15. Every little bit makes a difference.

Donations:
https://pacificswingdancefoundation.org/campaigns/legacy-library/donate/

Give today. Inspire tomorrow.

Help us get to $6k by the end of Camp Hollywood!
Legacy Library needs at least $6k to get started on the process of digitizing all the footage.
This isnt then end of what we need to raise, but it is the first step to making this project a reality.
Donate here:

https://pacificswingdancefoundation.org/campaigns/legacy-library/

We are having a reception today for the Legacy Library at 7pm at Pacific room 4/5 here atCamp Hollywood. If you’re curious to know more, stop by and we can talk all about it!

Spent this past week in NOLA with an amazing group of people who poured everything into learning, training, and building community. Look out for Next Generation Project dancers at an event near you! And we’ll be back in NOLA for Swing Legacy Week 2026 with an expanded program including three days of -public- events. .whitmore

Thank you to everyone who has been supporting the rhythm relief fire relief effort. We’re almost to $30k, net!

https://pacificswingdancefoundation.org/rhythm-relief-the-la-fires/

We’ve had a lot of people asking how they can help and not everyone can make a financial contribution. We do have some specific staffing needs (temporary and long term, volunteer and paid, in-house or not) to help us over this hump.

Send BRIEF responses to: [email protected]

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eel free to include resume and portfolio links as well as any requirements or limits.

Almost all of these depend on using digital tools, so facility and comfort in that realm is needed.

- help organizing and administering programs (NGP, scholarships, rhythm relief, PSDF Archive, travel coordination, small event coordination) [email, Google Workspace, social media]

- “executive” assistant [email, Google Workspace, social media]

- staff and volunteer coordination [email, Google Workspace, social media]

- content production: written, video, audio, images.

- PR, marketing, social media

- fundraising

For those with technology skills, our technology stack is:

- Web: LAMP, Wordpress, doses of react and the like and Python.

- Cloud Sorage and Dev: Chiefly the Google ecosystem.

- Office: Google Workspace, quickBooks online 

- Design: Chiefly Adobe Creative Cloud