A few dollars for rural theater arts!

I live in Floyd, a small one-stoplight town in rural Appalachian Virginia!   I have witnessed the local theater programs change the lives of many of the youth of Floyd County!  The theater is where these kids come out of their shell!  They learn empathy, public speaking, and teamwork.  They forge lifelong friendships and become a theater family!   But, alas, we do not come from a community that it rolling in money, so fundraising happens, but is not as fruitful as it may be in other communities.   And often those funds get allocated to good things, but I would love to have a fund specifically allocated for the theatre department's use! Equipment is old, sound systems are ancient, broken things don't have the funding to be fixed, and set pieces have been painted over and re-used so many times they have "texture".   Nevertheless, the theater program persists! And no child is ever turned away.  The June Bug Center operates on grants and donations and the sliding scale means every child ca