2025-04-14T15:09:03-07:00 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 454155321 Asheville Movement Community Inc ASHE 8283014135 P O Box 246 Asheville NC 28802 Marta Martin ExecutivDirectr 2025-04-14 true 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X www.ashevillemovementcollective.org X X 109003 X 108942 61 0 0 0 0 109003 1800 46404 20016 19651 614 16151 104636 4367 86304 90671 X 82856 87581 6771 5964 89627 93545 3323 2874 86304 90671 Hosting educational, participatory, and affordable community movement programming. Informational Note to Internal Revenue Service prior to Our Statement of 2023 Activities:From: Asheville Movement Community, Inc., EIN: 45-4155321, Form: 990-EZ, Period: Dec. 31, 2023In accordance with IRS IR-2024-253, Oct. 1, 2024, and website announcement at https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-provides-relief-for-helene-various-deadlines-postponed-to-may-1-2025-part-or-all-of-7-states-qualify, the extended deadline of Nov. 15, 2024 for filing of Dec. 31, 2023 Forms 990-EZ was further extended to May 1, 2025, for nonprofit entities located in Asheville and Buncombe County, North Carolina which already had the original approved extension in place. Because this declaration applies to our nonprofit organization, we are hereby in a timely manner filing electronically our Dec. 31, 2024 Form 990-EZ prior to the mandated deadline of May 1, 2025. We have always been located in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, which is at the heart of the area covered by the FEMA declaration for Disaster 4827. Thank you for recognizing the timeliness of our submission, and our best wishes to you.==================================================2023 was a year of transition, learning and growth as an organization for the Asheville Movement Collective. Our staff showed resilience and compassion in the face of difficult situations that required each of us to look deeply within and to reflect on our ways of dealing with challenges, as we embraced a positive future.Asheville Movement Community, Inc. (AMC) continued serving an economically and socially diverse local community during 2023, hosting free-form in-person movement events weekly on Sundays and Friday evenings. Each event included a review of the organization's event guidelines in order to encourage participation through self-expression and safe movement exploration, and participants ranged from children under supervision of their parents to persons aged 75 and older. In addition, we continued our collaboration with Warren Wilson College, offering activities to students and staff free of charge as a continuation of our agreement to educate the community on free-form movement and the culture of consent. Our regularly scheduled events served about 12,311 adult dancers and 422 children, and some events featured guest DJs from our community as well as live musicians who are regular AMC attendees.Volunteers and elected participants continued to refine the organizations personnel and governance infrastructure, both to create opportunities for participation while preserving the system of checks and balances, but also with an eye to reducing excessive administrative overhead and improving the experience of community members who do not serve in organizational roles. Accordingly, the format of the open community gatherings continued to be focused more on connection and feedback than on governance. Pathways for direct participation in organizational decision making remain, and plans and strategies for improving them have been identified. AMC hosted two Dancers Gatherings to help engage and support the community in participating further, and to open a more personal pathway to feedback with the community. Several volunteers were trained to hold leadership positions such as Room Coordinators, which continue to be nominally compensated in order to support sustainable participation from the community.AMC also collaborated with other conscious-dance leaders who facilitated our dances as guests, and held fundraising events in conjunction with other nonprofit organizations: North Carolina Center Of Conscious Living and Dying, Brother Wolf, and Our Voice. It is estimated that over 1,800 volunteer hours were contributed to the organizations mission and events in 2023. We are continuing our collaboration with Evergreen Community Charter School, which renewed our rental contract for this year and welcomed our dancers on an expanded schedule. We were proud to announce the reopening of our free childcare offerings that serve an intergenerational community and support children, parents and families. Our new childcare coordinator hires childcare providers from the community and we pay a living wage. There is now also an assistant childcare position offering opportunities to teens who have Red Cross training to gain work experience. We continue to welcome children of all ages to our events as long as they are being supervised by their adult caretaker. It is a inspiring experience for participants to witness age-spanning groups moving together in harmony.We are still committed to far-reaching research and fundraising efforts to explore a possible permanent future home for AMC, and recently increased revenue is giving us hope about the feasibility. We intend to develop a detailed business plan and to apply for grants, in order to help secure a long-term home via either a multi-year lease, a long-term partnership with an aligned organization, or the purchase or construction of a venue that AMC would own. At the same time, we are also taking into consideration what a permanent space would entail in terms of management, personnel and maintenance burdens. In the process, we have realized that we need expanded staff capacity to work on a strategic plan for annual fundraising as well.2023 has continued and strengthened the theme of extra-organizational and inter-community collaborations. During Dancers Gatherings, participants were invited to dialogue about several topics related to the organization's growth and development, including: how to elicit participation, supporting a culture of consent, policy-making issues, thriving financially, how to improve AMCs offerings, and our long term vision. Participants were also provided with current information about the organization's finances, staff and operations.Our policy of No one turned away for lack of funds has inspired dancers who are able to pay more, to contribute extra funds to support our lower income dancers. The policy has not significantly affected our income and has provided ways for more people to participate regardless of their income.AMC continues to offer opportunities to enter our different pathways toward leadership. This year, we have welcomed four new Dance Event Facilitators, five Room Coordinators and two Board of Directors members. Our Consent circle has worked to create a detailed policy that focuses on a culture of consent, and we had support from a consent advocacy professional. We have also hired a leadership and team dynamics coach and consultant, to support in stewarding, motivating and inspiring their teams to contribute at their highest capacity for the greatest common good. Our Executive Director continues to participate in equity and social justice programs such as the Keep it Moving Asheville Caucus and the Blue Ridge Public Radio Community Advisory Board.AMC as an organization continues to stay strong, growing and learning both from successes and adversity. 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Because this declaration applies to our nonprofit organization, we are hereby in a timely manner filing electronically our Dec. 31, 2024 Form 990-EZ prior to the mandated deadline of May 1, 2025. We have always been located in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, which is at the heart of the area covered by the FEMA declaration for Disaster 4827. Thank you for recognizing the timeliness of our submission, and our best wishes to you.