Having achieved our new home in Wilton Manors and our welcoming and inclusive identity as The Pride Center at Equality Park, we invite you to participate in making Vision 2015 a reality!
Simply stated, Vision 2015 charts our course to achieve a debt-free Center, by the end of 2015. Forty percent of the purchase price of our new Center has already been paid! Through Vision 2015 we will engage 500 individuals to contribute $1,000 annually for the next five years, resulting in a debt-free Center for generations to come!
As your community center, our Vision is to be “the premier point of connection for our community”. Generally speaking, an organization’s ‘vision’ is the future it desires to create. Vision adopts a long-term view. A vision statement provides inspiration, which serves as the basis for all of an organization’s planning.
Successful organizations have clear visions for the future, which begins with strong leadership– however, nothing can be accomplished without teamwork from everyone who is involved. As a team member, you can play an important role in achieving the Center’s unique vision.
For the equivalent price of dinner and a few drinks, an automatic, tax deductible credit card donation of less than $90 per month, puts you in the driver’s seat of making Vision 2015 a reality!
We invite you to get involved! As a community member, you can play an important role in shaping our future.
With the Pride Center as the premier point of connection for our community, we have a place to celebrate, learn, contribute, connect, give and receive comfort, hang-out, be entertained—and perhaps a place to meet the next great love of your life!
For more information, please contact Paul Hyman, Executive Director or Jason Burns, Major Gifts Officer at 954-463-9005.
Vision 2015 Contributors
John Graves Society – $500,000
John C. Graves Charitable Fund of the Community Foundation of Broward
Cornerstone Society – $250,000
Gil Corwin
Pillar Society – $100,000
Jan Carpenter & Dale Russell ~ Mona Pittenger
Luminary Society – $50,000
J. Michael Heider, D.D.S. & Thom Carr ~ Pitney Bowes Matching Grant ~ John Ramos
Richard Schwarz & Tom Massey
Star League – $25,000
Doug Candler ~ Forest Trace Luxury Community ~ James Jagielski ~ George Kling
James Laird ~ James Rampe Estate ~ Jim Stepp & Peter Zimmer ~ Sunshine Athletic Association
Equality League – $10,000
D.C. Allen & Ken Flick ~ Darcy Beeman ~ Paul Galluccio ~ Century 21 Hansen Realty ~ Vince Di Pietro
Mark Gordon & Aldo Buono ~ Ed Nicholas & Chris Griswold ~ Coleman Prewitt ~ Arthur Smith
Visionary Club – $5,000
Anonymous ~ Darcy Beeman ~ Ilene Berliner & Maura Lane ~ John Bowles
Mark Budwig & Nick Scalzo ~ Jan Carpenter & Dale Russell ~ George Castrataro, PA
Bob Collier & Chuck Hunziker ~ Copy This Planet Press & The Wine Cellar ~K. Lynn Corning
Michael Dager & Harvey Shapiro ~ Philip Dearborn ~ Chris Dunham & Joseph Dominguez
Ted Emery ~ David Guzman & Justin Hilt ~ Cal Harrison ~ Tyler Healis
Kenneth Hollander Charitable Foundation ~ Robert Hubbard & Bill Greeves
Bruce Johnson ~ Jack Johnson & Charlie Prather ~ Robert Joshua ~ Mark Kasper
George Kling ~ Dr. David Kyner & Richard Bray
W. Lynn McLaughlin & David Webb ~ Christopher Mahon, M.D. ~ Nicole Mannarino & Lisanne Cattoretti
Ken Merrifield & Fred Berger ~ David Moon & Eugene Smith ~ Chuck Nicholls
Daniel O’Flaherty & Mario Flores ~ Doug Pew & Donald Croxton
Robert Poster & Carmine Martorilli ~ Michael Preihs and Khoi ~ Herb Reis & William Coffey
Michael Rohrs & John Hensley ~ Neelie Sacharow ~ Sage Men’s Drop In
Jeffrey & Belinda Shover ~ Arthur Smith ~ Calvin Steinmetz & Brian Boyle
Dave Stubbins ~ The Bears of South Florida ~ Doug Tinklepaugh & James Rickard
Mark Turner & Chuck Nicholls ~ Ted Verdone & John Curtin
Charles Walker ~ Sumner T. White
Vision 2015 charts the course for The Pride Center to be debt-free in the next five years. With forty percent of the property’s purchase already paid in full, we seek 1000 donors to contribute $1,000 annually for the next five years.
