GlamCocks! - Stolen Truck Fund
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Hi! Thank you for your love and interest in helping our chosen family.
We are the GlamCocks: a Burning Man camp and queer community organization. But more than anything else... we are a family!
Shortly after this past Burn, our 26ft rental truck was stolen from right outside our storage unit in South San Francisco. That’s a big truck and as with most trucks leaving playa - it was packed beyond full. Several important pieces of our camp infrastructure, such as our sound system, art pieces, our camp sign, and the personal effects of more than thirty camp members were lost.
After countless calls with authorities, numerous insurance claims, and a lot of vigilante sleuthing, no information has come to light about where the missing truck ultimately ended up. Nothing was recovered from this incident.
The GlamCocks are now approaching 10 years - we have grown in numbers as well as the array of activities and offerings we provide on playa and off. We fundraise each year in order to expand those offerings and replace our older camp items with newer, better and more sustainable items. Not going to lie, this truck contained some major investments that not only took years to raise the funds to purchase, but also took camp members hundreds of hours to envision, design and create.
Now, in spite of this challenge, the GlamCocks are looking forward to kicking off 2020 with a fresh start and continued decade-long momentum to keep expanding our offerings on-playa and off.
The communities we are a part of have all been absolutely amazing during this time - the stories, kind words and offers to help us warmed our hearts when it was needed most.
In the true spirit of the Ten Principles, hundreds have asked where to contribute funds to aid in our camp’s recovery. Today, with renewed optimism for a glamtastic future, we are creating this GoFundMe page to accept donations with the very specific goals of replacing camp infrastructure and allowing us to bring back and expand upon our wide range of on- and off-Playa workshops, parties and gifts to neighboring camps. In particular, we are hoping to be able to replace stolen communal goods, such as our camp's sound system, kitchen equipment, and brand-new, hand-crafted GlamCocks sign (which was designed and constructed by dedicated members of our camp over 100+ hours of effort).
Based on available data, we value the amount of lost items at roughly $100,000 (including personal items) with $25,000+ being the camp infrastructure items listed above. Everything raised beyond the replacement value of the stolen camp infrastructure items will be donated to the Pacific Center for Human Growth: the oldest LGBTQ+ community center in the SF Bay Area, offering free youth and peer support groups and sliding scale mental health treatment for low-income LGBTQ(POC)+ communities.
Thank you very much for reading our GoFundMe page and for any contribution that you are able to make.
More importantly, thank you for being a part of our journey - and for letting us be a part of yours, too!
We look forward to seeing you again in the desert, at one of our regional events, or even just out and about.
With lots of love and gratitude,
GlamCocks!
San Francisco * Seattle * Los Angeles * New York * DC * Sydney * Minneapolis * Hong Kong * Las Vegas * Austin * Amsterdam * we are all over the place!
Want to learn more about our family? Ask us anything!
FB Messenger - m.me/GlamCocks
FB - GlamCocks FB Page
We are the GlamCocks: a Burning Man camp and queer community organization. But more than anything else... we are a family!
Shortly after this past Burn, our 26ft rental truck was stolen from right outside our storage unit in South San Francisco. That’s a big truck and as with most trucks leaving playa - it was packed beyond full. Several important pieces of our camp infrastructure, such as our sound system, art pieces, our camp sign, and the personal effects of more than thirty camp members were lost.
After countless calls with authorities, numerous insurance claims, and a lot of vigilante sleuthing, no information has come to light about where the missing truck ultimately ended up. Nothing was recovered from this incident.
The GlamCocks are now approaching 10 years - we have grown in numbers as well as the array of activities and offerings we provide on playa and off. We fundraise each year in order to expand those offerings and replace our older camp items with newer, better and more sustainable items. Not going to lie, this truck contained some major investments that not only took years to raise the funds to purchase, but also took camp members hundreds of hours to envision, design and create.
Now, in spite of this challenge, the GlamCocks are looking forward to kicking off 2020 with a fresh start and continued decade-long momentum to keep expanding our offerings on-playa and off.
The communities we are a part of have all been absolutely amazing during this time - the stories, kind words and offers to help us warmed our hearts when it was needed most.
In the true spirit of the Ten Principles, hundreds have asked where to contribute funds to aid in our camp’s recovery. Today, with renewed optimism for a glamtastic future, we are creating this GoFundMe page to accept donations with the very specific goals of replacing camp infrastructure and allowing us to bring back and expand upon our wide range of on- and off-Playa workshops, parties and gifts to neighboring camps. In particular, we are hoping to be able to replace stolen communal goods, such as our camp's sound system, kitchen equipment, and brand-new, hand-crafted GlamCocks sign (which was designed and constructed by dedicated members of our camp over 100+ hours of effort).
Based on available data, we value the amount of lost items at roughly $100,000 (including personal items) with $25,000+ being the camp infrastructure items listed above. Everything raised beyond the replacement value of the stolen camp infrastructure items will be donated to the Pacific Center for Human Growth: the oldest LGBTQ+ community center in the SF Bay Area, offering free youth and peer support groups and sliding scale mental health treatment for low-income LGBTQ(POC)+ communities.
Thank you very much for reading our GoFundMe page and for any contribution that you are able to make.
More importantly, thank you for being a part of our journey - and for letting us be a part of yours, too!
We look forward to seeing you again in the desert, at one of our regional events, or even just out and about.
With lots of love and gratitude,
GlamCocks!
San Francisco * Seattle * Los Angeles * New York * DC * Sydney * Minneapolis * Hong Kong * Las Vegas * Austin * Amsterdam * we are all over the place!
Want to learn more about our family? Ask us anything!
FB Messenger - m.me/GlamCocks
FB - GlamCocks FB Page
Organizer
James Ward
Organizer
San Francisco, CA