Earlier this week, our two-month long campaign to Kickstart a new project (Project Southtown), ended with a successful haul of donations that passed the $7,100 mark- well over our minimum goal of $2,000! Of course we want to give a big THANK YOU to all who donated, shared, and were at all supportive throughout the duration of our campaign.

Now that the campaign is done and over, we are going to be kicking Project Southtown into high gear, in our mission to restore a lot of the old Skank Skates videos and also file for non-for-profit status. For those of you closely following the project here is what you can expect in the near future:

– Be on the lookout for another State-Journal Register article in the paper tomorrow about the project’s completion.
– For those of you who donated to the Kickstarter, your incentives will be shipping out throughout the month of July. If you live in Springfield we may be getting ahold of you with incentives to avoid shipping.
– Our next roundtable meeting will be focused a lot on Project Southtown. We will be meeting at Black Sheep on Sunday, July 5th at 7:00 pm. Everyone is welcome to come.
– We will be giving out monthly updates on Project Southtown on our site, as well as through email lists. Updates will be focused on the status of the non-for-profit, as well as going into depth on where the campaign money is being spent. Expect the first big update at the beginning of July.