Dear Leadership San Ramon Valley Alumni, We hope that you and your families are healthy and faring as best as you can during these unprecedented times. We are reaching out today to inform you about how the COVID-19 situation is affecting Leadership SRV and ask for your help in sustaining the program by making a donation.  With the Shelter-in-Place and social distancing requirements, we moved our April Regional Planning class to Zoom and managed to have a good day. Subsequently, we decided to postpone the Cultural Arts session and Graduation, until a time when we can gather in groups of 50-100, hopefully by January and February 2021. In the meantime, with so much uncertainty on the horizon, we have decided to pause the Leadership SRV program for the coming year and will not start a new class in September.  Amid all the COVID-19 concerns we held off launching the Best Class Ever alumni fundraising campaign, but now, with corporate sponsorship opportunities paused too, we need the support of our alumni to raise almost $7,300 to make ends meet for this year.  In addition, we project it will cost near $22,000 to sustain the non-profit organization through June of next year.  Our goal is to cover half of this amount with reserves and half with alumni donations to ensure the long-term viability of this valued program. During the coming year we will work on creating opportunities for alumni interaction, complete the remaining classes for the Class of 2020, and begin recruiting
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