#givemn

Today is Give MN: Give to the Max Day! You can find your favorite non-profit, community project and charity to support!

You can find our project page, along with tons of great non-profits and art organizations here: https://givemn.org/fundraiser/Light-Grey-Art-Lab

Thanks for your continued support, enthusiasm, and participation in the community!

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Light Grey Art Lab is fiscally sponsored by Spring Board for the Arts. Our mission is to create a platform for exchange, ideas, and learning. We believe art culture should be accessible to everyone and that it should be easy for creatives to celebrate their practice. All of us at Light Grey believe in helping to foster a global creative community.

Light Grey Art Lab is a gallery, classroom, and art events space in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that focuses on bringing all types of artists and designers together to exhibit, participate, learn and share experiences.

Since opening our doors in 2012, we have partnered with several thousand contemporary illustrators, designers, fine artists, art students, and participants from around the globe. Although Light Grey Art Lab is run by a small team of artists, we love to make large projects happen! We regularly host new exhibitions, collaborative online projects, art events, the Light grey Podcast, published books and projects, interactive video games, and more. In addition to visual displays, we also host visiting artist workshops, classes, all creative meet & greets and an expansive creative travel program: The Light Grey Iceland Residency, Light Grey Art Camp International and Light Grey Art Camp Programs.

You can find out more about our programming and ways to get involved on our website here: www.lightgreyartlab.com

Thanks again and we look forward to collaborating in the future!

Alright, guys, it's Minnesota's Give To The Max Day tomorrow which means if you live in the Twin Cities area, you're being encouraged from every which way to donate to a nonprofit of your choice. I'm going to add to that encouragement and also put in a plug for Helping Paws, Inc. From my barrage of posts and photos, it's obvious that I'm enamored with Amos, the service dog I'm lucky enough to train, but my awe goes far beyond him and is a reflection of the incredible work these dogs do for their Forever People. It costs more than $30,000 per pup to get these dogs ready for their lifetime of service, and Give To The Max Day is an imperative part of the fundraising that goes into getting these dogs where they need to be in their training. These dogs act as a bridge between the individuals they work with and the rest of us to negate the handicap that so often is the only thing others see in individuals living with a disability, or veterans diagnosed with PTSD. Should you choose to donate, consider adding Helping Paws onto that gift and know that in doing so you're actively joining our network of both pups and humans that are working so hard to close that divide.

Even if you live outside of Minnesota, in donating through Give To The Max Day, you're still making a tax-deductible contribution that benefits you as much as it does these dogs. 

If you're so interested, click the link below to schedule your donation ahead of time, or check back tomorrow for a chance to win one of 24 Golden Tickets that affords you an extra $1,000 to donate to the non-profit of your choosing!