USITT Student Chapters

Giving Day Starts Now! Giving Day has begun! On this day, Saturday, October 26, we celebrate our birthday as this is the day the Institute was chartered 59 years ago! To celebrate, we’re having our first-ever Giving Day. From now until 11 PM tonight, we hope to generate contributions from our entire community to benefit the work supported by USITT’s Setting the Next Stage Campaign....Continue reading

There is a national day of giving for USITT this weekend. It doesn't matter how much you give but that you give a gift in any amount to help us reach our goal!... An important request from David Grindle, Executive Director, USITT USITT’s first ever Giving Day is this Saturday, October 26. Please help us reach our goals by making your contribution today by clicking online https://www.usitt.org/donate or from your mobile phone, text GIVE to 315-305-3604. October is the month USITT was born according to the legal documents. As such we are hoping to make strides toward fulfilling our campaign goal during this, our birth month. Giving Day on Oct. 26 will help us meet that goal., I ask you to consider what part of USITT’s mission is dear to you. Is it the research that we support? Our international connections? The future members of the industry? Or just the Institute as a whole? Each of these has a fund to make a gift. Our goal in this campaign has been to shore up the four basic funds of USITT. This helps us ensure we have the funds to continue research funding, international connections, student and early career initiatives, and to build the USITT Fund for support of the Institute. Each of these funds ties back directly to the charter written by our founders and gives us the assurance that we can continue the mission they began as it applies to the industry of today. While big gifts certainly make a splash, the size of the gift doesn’t matter. A few dollars or a few dollars each month go together to make a lasting impact. It helps us support people like Steph Waaser in her research to mitigate the spin inherent in single point rigging. It provides rigging inspections for high schools along with safety training. We currently have the funding to support 20-24 schools per year, but there are more than 50 applications we can’t fill and funding is literally the only barrier. USITT is opening doors for people at all points in their careers, and especially those in underrepresented communities. While the entertainment industry has a reputation for being a welcome space for all, that isn’t always the case. We are making efforts to change that through our Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion work that is funded through the Diversity Initiative in the New Century Fund. Sometimes I have to remind myself of all of the work that USITT is doing beyond producing the Annual Conference. Those are the things that this funding campaign is set to raise money for and ensure future funding. I ask that you consider a gift to USITT. One time, recurring, or a pledge over several years, each gift makes a difference in someone’s life. And if you are thinking about estate planning, those gifts count too. Our Loft Block Society is made of people that have notified us that they have left a bequest to USITT upon their death. If you’ve done this but not told us, you can help us meet our goal and we can recognize your generosity today. Thank you for being part of USITT. We appreciate all those we serve and we hope you will look to us in the coming year for more connections and resources as we Set the Next Stage for the next 60 years. Again, Please help us reach our goals by making your contribution today by clicking online https://www.usitt.org/donate or from your mobile phone, text GIVE to 315-305-3604 Thank you for your support!

If anyone knows C. Hurst from U of I in Bloomington, her cell phone is in the USITT conference office L012. Thank you!

Dear USITT Student Chapter Members, After speaking with many of you over the past year and looking at how to better serve you we are going to transition to a group where we can better communicate and share ideas with eachother. Please join and invite other people you know are involved in your local Student Chapter. ... Here is the description of the group: ***** USITT Student Chapters is the place where all the student chapters can post and share Ideas, Events & News pertaining to their student chapters. Use this page as a resource along with the USITT Student Chapter Forums *****