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Country Dance and Song SocietyMary Kay Friday Fund for Leadership Training |
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Country Dance and Song SocietyMary Kay Friday Fund for Leadership Training |
In 2003, a very generous gift from the family of Mary K Friday (1942-2001) was the catalyst for CDSS's developing vision of an ambitious, far-reaching leadership development outreach program. A fund supporting leadership development was a natural choice for honoring Mary K's memory. Mary K was a dancer, organizer, and emerging dance caller in the greater Washington, DC area. She served on the CDSS Governing Board for many years, and was committed to building and strengthening our dance community. One of her missions within the organization was to support the training of dance leaders, callers, and musicians. She was instrumental in the development of the leadership training courses at our summer programs, and organized a leadership training workshop in her local community. The Mary K Friday Fund for leadership training is a fund treated as endowed and designated by the CDSS Governing Board to support a wide variety of leadership development initiatives.* Subsequent significant gifts from Christopher and Kimberly Field, Jackie Algon, and members of the CDSS Board have supplemented the original gift from Mary K's family. The Fund is now one of several outreach resources through which CDSS can support leadership training, having become the kernel for our broad-reaching New Leaders, Good Leaders program. Mary K's family are not dancers themselves, but they heard many tales from her about her dance adventures, and understood how important the dance community was in her life. We are extremely grateful to her brothers, Bill, Doug, and Jim Goodman, and their families for the gift in Mary K's memory that sparked our vision and has led to so much more.
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