Geoff Chesshire, December 6, 2004

The time has come to thank all of you, the donors, volunteers, and supporters who have made the work of PartySmart possible over the past five full years. You are the people who care enough about your communities to share your valuable time and resources and make possible the success of our programs and projects. I wish to give special thanks to those of our

	Many thanks for supporting our work. 2003 2004 Benefactors: donors of $2500.00 or more – we need your help Supporters: donors of $400.00 or more Geoff Chesshire, Jeffrey J. Dempsey Grant Burke, Geoff Chesshire Subtotal $1000.00 Subtotal $809.65 Advocates: donors of $60 or more Nate Adams, Shaylin Francolini, Dr. George Greer, Nick Lopez Chance Katz, Julie Grace, John Sheridan, Warehouse21 Subtotal $475.00 Subtotal $600.00 Friends: donors of $10 or more Chrystal Axtell, Brad Fawcett, Phill Hardee Anthony (Kiddo), Gudrun, Christopher Boyer, Kevin Deininger, Avilio Vieira, Norman Katz, Aaron Park, Brandon Weiss, Zack Taylor Subtotal $122.06 Subtotal $243.11 Smaller donations and other revenue Individual donors Donation jar Sales Interest $18.00 $343.77 $331.71 $0.50 Individual donors Donation jar Sales & Services Interest $54.00 $503.25 $208.53 $1.01 Subtotal $693.98 Subtotal $766.65 Total $2291.04 Total $2419.55

volunteers who have shared the most time, dedication, and vision during 2003 and 2004: Antonia Montoya, Ari Serim, Patrick Geary, and Phoebe Harmon. This year, Jessica Clark, one of our former volunteers, received the prestigious “Santa Fe Teen Treasures” award in front of an enthusiastic audience of city and state government officials, school administrators, and leaders of non-profits and foundations. Jessica received this award to honor her for volunteer service to the Rave community through PartySmart, to the youth of Santa Fe through the Children’s Museum, and to the GLBTQQ community of Northern New Mexico through the Santa Fe Community Foundation. You all deserve this kind of recognition for your dedication. You, the donors and supporters of PartySmart, have made all of this work possible with your steady support, both monetary and in-kind. PartySmart stands out among non-profits in two ways that demonstrate its broad support within the communities it serves: Our ongoing success with a cost structure of ninety-five percent in-kind support and five percent monetary support shows that people within the communities we serve feel empowered to be the providers of our services. Also, fully one third of our financial support over the past five years has come from young people who value our services, a rare claim for any non-profit. Now it is time to celebrate the five-year anniversary of PartySmart, so let’s plan a party in your honor, as soon as possible in the new year, 2005:

I wish also to thank our initial Board of Directors: Miles Conway, Victoria Scott and me, through whose efforts we incorporated PartySmart in 2003 as a bona fide New Mexico non-profit corporation with 501(c)3 tax-exempt status. We also welcomed Sheryl Anderson to the Board later in 2003. This year, we are

	Many thanks for your in-kind donations. 2003 2004 Volunteer time @ $8.00/hr: 2003: 339hr, 2004: 364.75hr Unpaid staff time 250hr/month @ $12.00/hr: Sheryl Anderson, Chrystal Axtell, Sarah Baker, Ian Benjamin, Julie Bird, Geoff Chesshire, Miles Conway, Patrick Geary, Phoebe Harmon, Paul Lopez, Jason Miller, Antonia Montoya, Laura Montoya, Alan Moody, Gabby Peppas, Victoria Scott, Ari Serim, Jaclyn Threadgill, Sacha Washburn, Noah Wilkinson, Travis Zander, Alex Zvolanek Sheryl Anderson, Bo, Julie Bird, Ariel Bustos, Jennie Cale, Geoff Chesshire, Jessica Clark, Miles Conway, Kevin Deininger, Joshua Gellock, Patrick Geary, Julie Grace, Phoebe Harmon, Chance Katz, Brian Lorelle, Antonia Montoya, Laura Montoya, Michael Morton, Mikhaila Mulligan, Timothy Quintana, Ari Serim, Jen Tidwell, Avilio Vieira Subtotal $38712.00 Subtotal $38918.00 Some other donated goods and services: Travel expenses Booth supplies Literature Other $1356.80 $12.00 $91.22 $250.00 Travel expenses Booth supplies Literature Other $1504.00 $585.44 $551.58 $355.00 Subtotal $1712.02 Subtotal $2995.62 Total $40422.02 Total $41914.02 Many thanks for the following, donated in 2003 and 2004: Conference fees: Food, water: Management Training: Mediation Training: Meeting space: Office equipment: Photocopying: Literature, supplies: Web hosting services: NMDOH, NGONM, W21 Trader Joe’s, Wild Oats Santa Fe Community Fdn. D. Oliver, K. Oweegon W21, SJCSF, Sheryl A. Sheryl Anderson, Julie Bird Kinko’s, Wild Oats DanceSafe, NMDOH Saturn5 Productions

very fortunate to welcome Chance Katz, Patrick Geary, and Michael Morton to our Board of Directors, to take on the roles of Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer, while Geoff continues as President. We are now in a strong position to move forward as a solid non-profit business.

As a non-profit corporation, PartySmart belongs by definition to the communities we serve, communities that include you, our supporters. You may think of charity as a gift from you to those with fewer advantages and more unmet needs than yourself. For example, some non-profits are supported by one community with the purpose to serve another less fortunate. However, this leads too easily to service guided by our own wishes and biases, and not by the expressed needs of those we would serve. Too often, we try to teach others around the world to live as we do, when we still have more to learn than to teach. PartySmart is very fortunate to be serving the same communities that support our work, by empowering us to help ourselves and our communities to become healthy and strong. Our communities are clearly under great stress, including the rave community and other social communites based in and around youth culture. Under these circumstances, it certainly is charitable to serve and build upon the strengths of our own communities, and not first to look outside for another in greater need. You might say this blurs the distinction between who is serving and who is being served. I would counter that this is the very outcome we desire: we serve our community best when we all learn by example and experience the value of service to our community. Our community will be healthy and strong only when we all get into the habit of helping each other. For this reason, I thank you on behalf of both PartySmart and the communities we serve together, for all of your help and support.