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By Angela Bevacqua, Senior Communications Specialist, Community First Foundation, and featuring Beth Smith, Development Manager, Dairy Arts Center Q: The Diary Arts Center in Boulder has really transformed in the last few years! Can you give us an overview of your mission and purpose? A: The Dairy Arts Center is Boulder’s largest multi-disciplinary community arts center. It houses arts organizations such as theatre and dance, and includes art galleries, performance venues, teaching and dance studios, a cafe and an art-house cinema.We are in the final stages of a major renovation and will finish next summer. Q: How has The Dairy used Colorado Gives Day to support fundraising? Q: How did you promote the match? Photo of matching grants donors makes the "ask" more personal. Copy includes message that every gift to The Dairy that day increases The Dairy's share of the $1 Million Incentive Fund. A: The match was from prominent, well-known arts supporters and hel...

By Angela Bevacqua, Senior Communications Specialist, Community First Foundation, and featuring Beth Smith, Development Manager, Dairy Arts Center Q: The Diary Arts Center in Boulder has really transformed in the last few years! Can you give us an overview of your mission and purpose? A: The Dairy Arts Center is Boulder’s largest multi-disciplinary community arts center. It houses arts organizations such as theatre and dance, and includes art galleries, performance venues, teaching and dance studios, a cafe and an art-house cinema.We are in the final stages of a major renovation and will finish next summer. Q: How has The Dairy used Colorado Gives Day to support fundraising? A: I was a new employee in 2013 when we participated in our first Colorado Gives Day, and creating our ColoradoGives profile helped me learn a lot about the Dairy. It’s just a three-person team working on the event—me, the marketing director and ED--so that first year I took advantage of the marketing mater...