The SII Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou Wall

SandCastle Island, Inc - SSI - would like to invite a few special supporters to get their names featured prominently on this year’s Sandcastle Days demonstration sculpture. These donations help fund our Christmas Sculpture at the Holiday Sandcastle Village, construction of which will start right after Sandcastle Days. We are excited to bring back this annual tradition and - who knows? - maybe Santa Willie will come back this year!

This year’s giant exhibition sculpture at Sandcastle Days will feature special section - the ThankyouThankYouThankYou Wall (TYTYTY) - with the names of anyone who donates $100 or more to our nonprofit this month. (No logos or images - just names — business or personal.) Twenty-five characters or less, please. $100 minimum. All monies raised will go directly to our sculptors - to help subsidize their travel fees and to pay them for their help with our Christmas sculpture at the Sandcastle Village.

Note: we can do logos too! It just costs more. Contact sandy feet at 956-459-2928 for more info.

What does your C-note get you? Your name (business or personal) prominently featured on our TYTYTY wall.

Also, our undying gratitude.

In case you were wondering: How does SSI support Sandcastle Days?

We provide/secure ground transport for the visiting sculptors

We pay for non-competing sculptors to assist with demonstration sculptures, i.e. Scott Dodson, Amazin’ Walter, and Christy Atkinson.

We co-sponsor Sandcamp (free sandcastle lessons)

We subsidize sculptors travel expenses (which have shot into the stratosphere this year)

Why does SSI find itself with such a shortfall this year?

We had to rebuild our sandboxes and replace rusted barrier walls.

The number of visitors was down about 15% from last year.

A couple of big regular donors dropped out this year.

Our per/visitor average dropped from .30 to .18.

We still managed to create 9 new sculptures over the past year and had over 500,000 people walk through.

Consequently, we find ourselves about $8000 short of the amount we usually have in our coffers this time of year.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

SII is a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization. Contributions are tax deductible in accordance with IRS rules and regulations.

Sandcastle Days Thank You Wall