Vanda tricolor
Photo by Eric Hunt
last updated: December 17, 2011
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OrchidMania in San Francisco Has Closed.
Our leased greenhouse property has been sold. After considering the financial outlook for continuing in another location the Board of Directors decided to cease operations. In the summer of 2010 we stopped taking donations and held a series of sales to liquidate our inventory. We vacated the greenhouse in November, 2010. We will liquidate remaining assets and make our last grants in 2011.
The letters for individual income tax deductions for donations during 2010 have been sent by USPS mail. If you made donations during 2010 and do not receive yours by February 5, 2011 please contact us by email.
This past year the net proceeds from OrchidMania’s fund raising efforts were distributed as grants to the following organizations:
Support the Children Foundation
An orphanage founded in the northern province of Chiang Mai in Thailand. The organization provides a home-like atmosphere for children with AIDS/HIV who have been abandoned by their parents. The organization also provides instruction and education to the parents of infected children as to their care and the medical advice needed..
Camp Sunburst A summer camp in California founded for children with AIDS/HIV and their caregivers. The organization provides a summer camp for children and their caregivers where they can enjoy a week together in a camp type atmosphere.
We deeply appreciate your support. Over the years OrchidMania – San Francisco has given grants totaling over $330,000 to AIDS education and relief organizations. Our sister organization, OrchidMania – South Florida continues. We urge you to individually continue to support them and our grantees.
Again, thank you for your donations, help and purchases,
OrchidMania, Inc. Board of Directors
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Lastly, the unpleasant but requisite legal disclaimer. Please read it -- it took me 10 minutes to write the darn thing and it would make me feel good.
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Additionally, the user acknowledges that we are a nonprofit organization... in other words, we're always broke and we're totally without any assets whatsoever that might make a lawsuit worth your time. Plus, its just your own damn fault that you forgot to take the plant out of the fertilizer bath on a night when the temperature dropped to 33 degrees and it rotted to a giant ball of ooze -- go buy another one, for Pete's sake, and quit your belly-achin'.
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