9,000 Producers :)

We passed 9,000 Producers today! :) 

Man, I remember when a few hundred producers seemed like an absurd amount. And I remember when we reached 1,000- it was during our trip to Sundance when Craig and I were sneaking into parties and getting donations from celebs. I just went back and looked at my blog entry from then.

That was almost 3 years ago... Man, I must admit, I had no idea I would be working on this for so long! But somehow this project has continued to grow, thanks to more people who continue to stumble across it and have been moved to lend support as producers.

I'm sometimes overwhelmed by the mountain that remains ahead, especially when I wrap my mind around the scope of the future projects. But I'm constantly inspired by the support this project has received, and when I look back at where this project started and how far it has come, the view is pretty amazing. 

I'm now looking forward to reaching 10,000 Producers, which isn't too far away. More than that, I'm looking forward to bringing The Collaboration Foundation into reality. This means developing a new site and fundraising for general operating expenses so we can put a team together to start developing the next projects.

I've been working on materials for grant writing for this, which is another learning process. Yesterday Juli and I met up with grant writing guru, Dana Bean. Dana is an artist who also works as a professional grant writter for a well established non-profit addressing homelessness in Los Angeles. She had a lot of great advice for organizing our mission statement, goals, and objectives.

I've also been getting help from a team of great lawyers at McDermitt Will & Emery who have been helping us pro-bono. Anyway, that's some of the daily dust stuff i've been up to lately.

Little by little, movin forward.

thanks to all 9,000+ of you who have helped so far!

best,

n