Upcoming Events and News
Crossroads Annual
Meeting
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
6:30pm in the Upstairs Studio
Please come and join the
Board of Directors and staff for the
Annual Meeting of the Crossroads
Corporation. Per our by-laws,
Crossroads has an annual meeting
to elect new board members, make
by-law changes and to share a full
update of the organization from the
prior year. Light refreshments will
be served and this is open to the
public.
Ballots to elect board members
go to Members of the Corporation
which are Members in good
standing of Crossroads. Ballots
will be mailed to all members
around January 18th. Ballots must
be returned to Crossroads by
March 11th at 5:00pm, we don’t
count postmarks. We have only the
election of John Rademacher to the
board of directors on the Ballot.
Please come and join us and
hear about a very successful 2019!
New Website
Business Memberships
Crossroads is working with
GiveCloud, our e- commerce
provider who is building us a
simple and easy to use website. Our
current site is very outdated on the
backside making it diffi cult and in
some cases impossible to update
the site.
Websites are becoming the
“reference libraries” of organizations
with Social Media being the quick
response to all groups. This website
will more effectively allow you to
pay for classes, buy membership,
check the Crossroads calendar and
still have our Quick Forms to allow
artists to print out needed inventory
sheets or get the latest call to artists.
Staff will have access to all parts
of the site so we can keep things
current. But as always any transition
like this create new challenges as
we work out the bugs. Facebook
will continue to be that instant
message platform through this
transition. Please be patient!
Crossroads Membership
Committee put together a new
Business membership program that
we are fi nally rolling out. Crossroads
is mailing our new Business
membership forms to all current
businesses in our database and
we hope to get around to all local
businesses.
We recognize that many of our
business owners want to support
our efforts but don’t want to do
a family membership. We have
created a $100 membership that
gives the benefi ts of a family
membership to the business owner
and still promotes the business.
We also have larger donor levels
which enable you to receive the
business membership, sponsor
First Friday and get coupons for
your employees. Check it out online
(www.crossroads-arts.org) or pick
a form up at Crossroads or board
members will be stopping by.
Thank You to Those Funders for Supporting our All-Abilities Classroom
Kinsman Foundation, NW Farm Credit, Oregon Cultural Trust, Union Pacifi c Foundation, Leo Adler Foundation
and Buerkel Zoellner Foundation. Donors from Crossroads Gala and donors from our #givingtuesday campaign
on Facebook.
All Abilities Classroom
Update – Be watching for
changes!
Crossroads wanted to update
you on the upcoming work to
transform our downstairs studio into
an All- Abilities Studio. Crossroads
was inspired by Community Force,
to assure that we were welcoming
to all people. We have been
working with Access Gallery in
Denver Colorado to assist us in
how we can make our facilities user
friendly to people in wheelchairs,
walkers, blind, deaf and the list goes
on. We have one more grant still
pending so you will begin to see
changes at Crossroads in the weeks
ahead.
What is coming:
• One sink lowered
• Portable ramp to provide access
to the stage.
• Universally designed chairs for
adults and children.
• Adjustable tables and
equipment which will allow
access to the creative process.
• A new sound system with
new speakers and improved
microphones.
• Sound baffl ing in the downstairs
studio
• New counters throughout the
building
• And More!
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