{"id":53076,"date":"2020-06-26T19:22:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T01:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/community-foundation-to-host-secret-garden-fundraiser-covid-style\/"},"modified":"2020-06-27T01:22:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T01:22:58","slug":"community-foundation-to-host-secret-garden-fundraiser-covid-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/community-foundation-to-host-secret-garden-fundraiser-covid-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Foundation to host Secret Garden fundraiser, COVID-style"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=4eb24f9c-c9e9-4b57-8d35-85da479a7329&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Carute Roma performs during the Community Concerts in the Secret Garden at the Rochester on Aug. 17, 2016, to a full crowd. The fundraiser will go on this year, but it will take place virtually in private \u201csecret garden\u201d parties and on radio stations to prevent spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Carute Roma performs during the Community Concerts in the Secret Garden at the Rochester on Aug. 17, 2016, to a full crowd. The fundraiser will go on this year, but it will take place virtually in private \u201csecret garden\u201d parties and on radio stations to prevent spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of the Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>It is a summer full of would\u2019ves, but that\u2019s not stopping the Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado from raising money for local nonprofits.<\/p>\n<p>It would have been the foundation\u2019s sixth annual Community Concerts in the Secret Garden at the Rochester Hotel, but in a fit of creative planning, the fundraiser will take place virtually in private \u201cSecret Garden\u201d parties and on air.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew we needed to be creative, so that this important grant opportunity wasn\u2019t diminished during the COVID-19 restrictions,\u201d said Briggen Wrinkle, Community Foundation executive director. \u201cWe looked for ways we could reimagine the events \u2026 to create a safe and fun strategy to positively impact local musicians, as well as nonprofits in our area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the past five years, the Community Concerts in the Secret Garden at the Rochester Hotel event has raised about $75,000 for local nonprofits each year. Nonprofits need funding this year more than ever: Southwest Colorado nonprofits face <a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/328927\">an estimated $8 million in financial losses<\/a> because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>During the fundraiser, nine local musicians and bands will play radio shows on KSUT, KDUR and the Point from 7 to 8 p.m. July 1, 8 and 15. Community members can contribute donations to support 10 local arts and culture nonprofits, with the goal of raising $50,000.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, the event generates $1,500 grants. This year, each organization could receive up to $5,000. The 10 La Plata County organizations include: the Be Frank Foundation, Dancing Spirit, Durango Arts Center, Durango Independent Film Festival, Durango Playfest, KDUR, KSUT, Music in the Mountains, Pine River Arts and Stillwater Music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to ensure that we have thriving arts organizations in our community because we need joy, inspiration and whimsy in this challenging time,\u201d Wrinkle said. \u201cThe inspiration provided by the arts will help us to heal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:smullane@durangoherald.com\">smullane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>musicians to play online to raise money for La Plata County nonprofits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[408,685,11,29,1269],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-53076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-charity","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-economy-general","tag-newsletter","tag-nonprofits"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53076"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=53076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}