Dear Friend,
I’m writing to personally thank you for your support during some especially challenging times at Hugo House. Because of your generous friendship, we’ve not only endured past difficulties but emerged on the other side stronger and wiser. Last year was no different: Who could have expected a global pandemic, or months of protest on our doorstep, or a community call for transformative change?
And yet, as you’ll see in our 2020 Annual Report, which we’re releasing this week, last year was nevertheless one of our best years yet. Our quick pivot to digital instruction, events, and programs gave us the opportunity to teach more classes, serve more people, and reach more neighborhoods than ever before. I hope you have a chance to take a look at the report, and I hope you’ll see in our successes a vision of the future, as I do.
But we can’t get there without you. Over the next few months, we’ll have some exciting opportunities to support our vision of opening the literary world to everyone who loves books or has a drive to write. We’ll start on September 23 with our annual gala—Eat Read Hugo—which will again feature an array of one-of-a-kind auction items, plus a chance to raise the paddle to support your favorite Hugo House programs. Then, in November, we’re bringing back Novel Nights, a mini-festival of intimate conversations with must-read authors including Daniel James Brown, Ha Jin, Lauren Groff, Sonora Jha, Benjamin Percy, and Elizabeth George.
Finally, you can help us honor Hugo House’s upcoming 25th anniversary by making an end of the year contribution which will ensure we enter 2022 fully equipped to handle the challenges of the future.
Thank you again for your kind generosity, which makes it possible for us to keep offering the programs that empower our community to tell their own stories.
Yours,
Rob Arnold
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