December 2020

Dear Friends of Pedals for Progress and Sewing Peace,

Happy 2021 and good riddance to 2020!

With the support of our generous donors, collection partners, and a Payroll Protection Program loan, we hope to survive until spring 2021, when we hope that Covid-19 will be losing steam thanks to vaccines and careful living.

In spite of the chaos of 2020, we’ve had a productive year:

• Rolex and the Washington Post collaborated to produce a multimedia piece that featured me and another Rolex Laureate, Reese Fernandez–Ruiz, founder of Rags2Riches, our new partner in the Philippines. Here’s the link to the Washington Post piece.
• We made full-container shipments to Albania, Tanzania, Thailand, and Togo.
• We shipped sewing machines to Cameroon, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Uganda.

We have 6 continuing partners: Albania, Guatemala, Kosovo, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda.

We have 3 new partners: Philippines, South Africa, Thailand.

For recent news and some great stories, see the Fall 2020 Newsletter.

Here is information for our fiscal year that ended on 30 September 2020:

• 2020 Annual Report
• 2020 Financial Statments
  1. Profit and Loss
  2. Balance Sheet
• 2020 IRS Form 990

As always, our website, www.p4p.org, has all our information, new and old.

Thanks for your continued support. Happy New Year.

 

Dave Schweidenback, President
Pedals for Progress / Sewing Peace
dschweidenback@gmail.com
www.p4p.org