Casual Day Funds Benefit Free Arts for Abused Children of Arizona

June/July/August 2015

Employees participated in Dudley Ventures’ summer spirit program benefitting Free Arts for Abused Children of Arizona by contributing $1/day for the privilege of dressing down during the hottest three months in Arizona. Donations were a total of $1400, which Dudley Ventures matched to raise $2800, and the shopping team used to pick out some great art supplies! Our donation included paints, canvases, markers, glue sticks, gift cards, gel pens and other neat art supplies. We were grateful to take a tour of the Free Arts facility and learn more about what the organization does. 

Free Arts is a nonprofit organization that offers therapy-based curriculum, a mentoring program, and a variety of art experiences, providing our community’s most vulnerable youth the chance to express themselves creatively, build self-confidence, and develop trusting relationships. Each year, Free Arts serves over 8,000 children at 100 plus social-service partner facilities free of charge. For more information, please visit: http://www.freeartsaz.org/

Summer Funds to Support Local Teachers!

June - August 2014

With DV matching employee contributions, our team raised $2550 in funds to purchase and donate art, school, and office supplies to a local charitable organization, Treasures 4 Teachers, a local non-profit organization. These supplies will benefit teachers and students in Arizona where school's budgets are low. Teachers typically spend $500 to $1,200 of their own salaries on school supplies for their students each year. Dudley Ventures’ employees were allowed to wear relaxed dress to the office in the months of June, July and August for a contribution of $1 each day. Employees had a great time shopping for our donations of art supplies including non-toxic paints, paint brushes, easels, large art pads, markers, glitter glue, puffy paints, colored pencils, colored paper, and kid scissors; school supplies - pencils, pens, composition notebooks, lined paper, binders, rulers, bottled glue, glue sticks, and crayons; and office supplies - file trays, staplers, sheet protectors, folders, binders, binder index dividers, bulletin boards, magnets, and highlighters!

For more information about Treasure for Teachers, please visit www.treasures4teachers.org

Casual Day Funds to Benefit the 100 Club & Honor the Granite Mountain Hotshots

June - September 2013

Our employees dressed down for the summer months and donated a dollar for each day of casual dress June – September 2013 with Dudley Ventures matching all contributions. Our total donation was over $3,000 to The 100 Club in support of the Granite Mountain Hotshots. The Prescott Fire Department's Granite Mountain Hotshot crew lost their lives battling the Yarnell Hill Fire in Arizona on June 30, 2013. The 100 Club utilized donations to provide financial support to the families of the fallen firefighters, including: memorial services and funeral arrangements, travel arrangements and hotel accommodations for families, honor guard, and fire personnel, replacement safety equipment for the fire departments, peer support/counseling, future scholarships and other needs.

The 100 Club supports public safety officers, firefighters, and their families in a variety of ways. Over the past 45 years, more than $7 million has been given through the 100 Club's benefits and programs.

For more information about the 100 Club, please visit www.100club.org