Updated 8/4/2015.

Dear Oakland Supporter,

Saturday, August 29, 2015 is South Oakland Community Day (SOCD) at Dan Marino Field on Frazier St from Noon-7pm. The South Oakland Neighborhood Group (SONG) is a volunteer community group representing the residents of Pittsburgh’s South Oakland Neighborhood. South Oakland Community Day is a fun-filled event that has attracted nearly 500 participants in the past with food & music, raffles & giveaways, sports, games and activities for all ages.

The South Oakland community volunteers enrich the lives of the people and the neighborhood in which they reside through various activities including clean-ups of city streets and collaborate with local politicians, institutions and other stakeholders to maintain and correct fulfill some of the neighborhood needs. They work to protect the greenways and green spaces and provide student groups with environmental education through hands-on stewardship and ecological training. Volunteers also work with the neighborhood youth through after-school and lunch programs. We would like to make this event a great close to the summer to showcase these efforts and our community.

South Oakland Community Day is also the ideal time for neighbors to reach out to the many new university students that will soon call South Oakland home, from Point Park University, Carnegie Mellon University, Carlow University and the University of Pittsburgh and welcome them into our community. With this in mind, we would like to keep the tradition of making this event mostly inexpensive or free.

As a valued member of our community we would like to ask for your support to make this the best event possible. You can help us by becoming by donating gifts we can use for raffles, food, money or volunteering to help.  Donations help us pay for food, supplies and programming. Our donation request form can be found on the reverse of this letter. As our fiscal agent, Oakland Planning and Development Corporation will provide a copy of their tax-exempt certificate as needed.

Thank you for considering this local community event. Every little bit helps!

Sincerely,

Mark Oleniacz Chairperson, South Oakland Community Day Planning Committee Vice-Chairperson, South Oakland Neighborhood Group

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Donation request form for South Oakland Community Day 2015⁽¹⁾

Saturday, August 29, 2015 Noon – 7pm

Donation Levels:

Next Door Neighbor $15 Name on our websites and event “Thank You!” wall. ____________________________________________ Friend of The Community $30 Name on our websites and event “Thank You!” wall. Listed in SOCD event program for your contribution level. ____________________________________________ Shakespeare Streets Steward $50 Name on our websites and event “Thank You!” wall. Listed in SOCD event program for your contribution level. 1/8 page advertisement in our SOCD event program. ____________________________________________ Resident Treasurer $100 Name on our websites and event “Thank You!” wall. Listed in SOCD event program for your contribution level. 1/4 page advertisement in our SOCD event program.* Two reserved chairs throughout the event Two SOCD event T-shirts2

Neighborhood Chairperson $150 Name on our websites and event “Thank You!” wall. Listed in SOCD event program for your contribution level. 1/2 page advertisement in our SOCD event program.* Four reserved chairs throughout the event Four SOCD event volunteer T-shirts2 ____________________________________________ Your Own Personal Contribution Level    (Surprise Us!) Name on our websites.   Each and every dollar or donated item we receive is greatly appreciated.

⁽¹⁾ – All donations should be noted by August 14 and received by August 18^th for printing and production times.
² – These benefits for direct monetary donations only.

Please fill out the form below and we will send you the document with payment instructions.

• We are now accepting applications for vendors to the event.  Please check out the Vendor page at:

http://southoaklandpgh.org/SOCD/VENDORS/