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Real Estate Services, LLC
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Los Angeles, CA 90020 |
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Minden, NV 89423 |
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Funerary Sculpture of a Dog
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Gift of Diane and Harold Keith and Jeffrey Lowden
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February 6, 2006
Dear Friends: RE: The 1% Club
Late last year I attended a fundraising gala held by a children's organization called Inner-City Arts, honoring my good friend Steve Schoenholz of Tempted Apparel. Steve and I play golf regularly at Mountain Gate Country Club.
Although I was there to support Steve, during the course of the evening I became more and more interested in Inner-City Arts and made a $2,500 donation that night, sight unseen.
The very next week, I asked Steve to take me for a visit and I was astonished to find an oasis in the midst of Skid Row, providing art classes for some 8,000 children a year. Inner-City Arts is a visual and performing arts center, that serves some of the neediest kids in our city - 100% of their students participate in Title I free or reduced lunch programs (To qualify for the program, a single parent with one child must earn less than $14,378 annually).
Education in the arts feeds a child in ways that are both measurable and intangible: Academic test scores increase by up to 25% in subjects such as Math, English and reading and children are given the tools to Dream and Achieve a better life for themselves and their families. This of course has a long-term impact on the community – no culture can afford to ignore the transforming power of the arts! We can help at the grass roots, where it matters MOST.
I am determined to make a difference for these children. Of course, I am also a businessman and want to get the most tax benefit possible from any donation I make. As such I have decided to donate 1% of any broker's commission's earned in 2006 to go directly to Inner-City Arts, by writing Inner City Arts into each escrow as part of my commissions to be paid. By the end of March my companies will have contributed as much as $11,500 to the kids. This affords me the benefit of the largest possible write-off at the least amount of pain, since the dollars go directly to the charity rather than being counted towards my gross income. I hope you will be a part of the 1% Club, like Armando Aguirre of Colliers Seeley International, Los Angeles. Together we can make a difference one person at a time.
For a tour of the “Start of our Campus” or for further information in The 1% Club and how you can assist kids in your backyard, please contact me at 310.502.5703 or Karin Volpp-Gardela at 213.627.9621. The kids, staff at Inner City and I thank you for your support of this most needed program.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey Lowden, Director
www.Inner-CityArts.org
www.skywestservices.com/charities
