PSA $10K Anniversary Giveaway winners announced
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The contest was open to public and non-profit schools, non-profit performance art and music-driven organizations, community theatre and performing arts groups and clubs, and church performance groups. “The award winners exemplified to us how it is possible to use the performing arts to entertain while also magnanimously create goodwill throughout their community,” said James Lamb, president of Point Source Audio. “It is heartwarming to see so much good being done day in and day out by these unsung heroes.”
The $5,000 award is presented to the NewArts Foundation for its work towards youth development. NewArts was founded by Michael Baroody, MD, a resident of Newtown, following the tragedy at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. The foundation’s mission is to empower children in an increasingly challenging world by providing programming to guide children through personalized character development.
The $3,000 award is presented to the University of South Dakota Department of Theatre for its outreach to the Native American community. The University of South Dakota Department of Theatre drives forward arts engagement, diversity and inclusiveness in the region. It brings artistic and educational experiences to the surrounding regions’ native populations and underserved farming populations as part of the university theatre season.
The $2,000 award is presented to the Chinese Alliance Church of Westchester for bridging cultures through collaboration. The church’s pastors strive for community by bringing together the Chinese church members who commute to “our little church” with the largely Latino community.
The contest that began in January was an outlet for the company to give back after thriving for a decade in the audio industry supplying products to theatres, churches and schools.
PSA’s vice president of sales and marketing, Yvonne Ho, headed the selection committee and requested that all the entries be delivered for review without identity of the organisation so that the merits could be judged solely on the responses submitted. “Having a ‘blind’ reading, if you will, opened our eyes and hearts to organisations that would not have seemed obvious,” explained Ho. “We hope that by highlighting a few of them, many others will be inspired to follow suit.”
(Jim Evans)
