SpectorDance is honored to be part of Monterey County Gives!, the annual, year-end campaign that inspires local philanthropy and benefits a wide array of Monterey County nonprofits.
 
In 2025, your donations enable SpectorDance to offer our programs including:  

We Can't Do It Without You!

Thank You To Our Major Donors
Monterey County Gives 
Harden Foundation
Arts Council for Monterey County 
Roger Stewart 
Amy Byington
In Memory of James Atkins
Diana Huang and Ron Chen  
Yellow Brick Road
Events California
Jonathan Lipow
&
Connie DeNault, Anita Dilts, Dixie Dixon, Michelle Djokic, Christopher Fitz, Susan and Martin Garbowitz, Edward and Jeanne Gavrin, Connie and Sam Katz, Pamela and Doug Keindl, Heather and David Kirk, Jonathan Lipow, Matthew and Joan Little, Wendy Loew-Mari, Esther and Gary Lucas, Rob Mari, Ellen Martin, Fred Masters,
Gary and Fred Mathews, Stephen Mortensen, George Niesen, Mary Pommerich, Thomas Rebold, Susan Rosen, Kyra and Brian Schlining, SawTeen See, Kyle Stewart, Roger and Linda Thompson, Jan Wagstaff,
Helen Kosik Westly, Emily Zefferman, and Bradley Zeve


Thank You To All Our Donors

Jacqui Atkinson & the Arts Council for Monterey County, Fran Atkins, James Atkins, Kathleen Baer, Sheri Benham, Amy Byington and William Thompson, Lisa & Anthony Ciani, Michael Clark, Laura Collins, Karen & Jay Cook, Lucia Coppola, Lois Cornell, Mary & Pierre Cousineau, Community Foundation for Monterey County, Shany Dagan, Connie DeNault, Dixie Dixon & Stephen Mortensen, Michelle Djokic and the Sand Box, Chris Fitz, Susan & Martin Garbowitz, Jeanne & Edward Gavrin, Lisa & Anthony Giani, Sabrina Hiltunen, Deborah Howitt, Jessie Juarez & Kelsey Posey, Connie & Sam Katz, Pamela & Doug Keindl, Keystone Chimney Sweeps, Heather & David Kirk, Helen Kosik-Westly, Jonathan Lipow, Joan & Matthew Little, Wendy Loew-Mari & Rob Mari, Esther & Gary Lucas, Ellen Martin and First Night Monterey, Gary Masters & Fred Mathews, Teresa Merry, Jill Miller, Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Valerie Moule, Susan & Steven Murphy, Constance Murray & David Buckingham, Mimi & George Niesen, Diana Ontiveros, Ester & Gary Lucas, Mary Pommerich, Thomas Rebold, Susan Rosen, Kyra & Brian Schlining, SawTeen See, Kirkland Smidt, Charlotte Smith, Kyle Stewart, Roger Stewart, Linda & Roger Thompson,  Inc., Jan Wagstaff, Paul Warnow, Emily & Matthew Zefferman, Bradley Zeve

SpectorDance Board of Directors
Fran Spector Atkins, Founder & Executive Director, Dr. Roger D. Stewart, Board Chair, Amy Byington, Lucia Coppola, Shany Dagan, Connie Denault, Dr. Jonathan Lipow, and Charlotte Katherine Smith
Testimonials
As a local radio journalist for many years, I have kept up through stories and conversations with Fran Spector Atkins and her brilliant dance projects.  It has been a reassuring pleasure to follow her adventures in artistic expression and community involvement like a North Star on the Monterey Peninsula.  From gang violence to conservation of the ocean to overcoming isolation from the coronavirus experience, she has been a healing and creative force to budding dancers and appreciative audiences.  SpectorDance helps us rise up and reach out to make the world a better place.
- Lisa Ledin at NPR for the Monterey Bay Area, 90.3 KAZU
Fran Spector Atkins is a tour de force in our community and throughout the country. She is an amazing teacher, dancer and choreographer who masterfully weaves her art making with dialogue about the toughest and most complex issues we face. We have all benefited tremendously from the incredible growth of her school, her choreographic works and her leadership during the past fifteen years that I have been the Executive Director of the Arts Council for Monterey County. She is a great asset to our region and an inspiration for everyone who meets her. Whenever I say that "the arts are the answer", I think often of Fran's gorgeous, daring, innovative and powerful work.
- Paulette Lynch - former Executive Director of the Arts Council for Monterey County
“The California Arts Council believes in the potential of the arts to enrich the lives of all our state’s residents, especially our young people,” said Nashormeh Lindo, California Arts Council Chair. “That belief does not change with our system-engaged youth; it grows stronger. The world we create for our young people today determines our world tomorrow. We are proud to support the work of SpectorDance.”
I deeply admire SD's forward-looking vision. I applaud the many dance-education programs in the area, but none of them makes so clear the connection between dance and the social issues with which we all confront on a daily basis. SD's embrace of gang violence and oceanic degradation, both of which profoundly afflict life in Monterey County, has revealed essential current truths that other area arts have as of yet to take notice. I cheer SpectorDance more for making those issues a much bigger part of daily life in our community, for representing the urgency these issues demand, not only to artists but to the rest of us who have no end of ways to look the other way. SD makes its educational vision a matter of immediacy--hence action--that all other local arts institutions should embrace. I can think of no other arts program that is more deserving of widespread community support.
- Scott MacClelland - editor, Performing Arts Monterey Bay

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