Giving Back
JETLAG FESTIVAL CHARITY WORK
GOOD MUSIC FOR GOOD CAUSES
We dedicated JetLAG-2022 & 2023 to supporting Ukrainian refugees and raised almost $45,000 to help people impacted by the war in Ukraine. Half of the money came from your donations and merchandise sales, and the other half came from ticket sales. We’ve decided to continue this tradition with “Good Music for Good Causes”: an annual fundraiser to drive donations to Ukraine and other causes close to our community. We encourage all of you to support the spirit of Good Music for Good Causes with an optional $35 donation we’ve added onto each ticket purchase.
The recipients of the money raised will once again be causes and aid groups organized by and related to our JetLAG community. Our primary focus is to raise money for humanitarian efforts in Ukraine including medical aid and education, immigration and migration support, transportation, evacuations, clean water, and food delivery. Part of the funds this year will be dedicated in memory of Dina Vistman, a JetLAG community member who cared deeply and worked hard for the missions close to her heart and ours: Ukraine, reforestation in the Amazon, neuro-oncology research, and clean oceans.
WHY WE DEDICATE JETLAG TO NO WAR
There’s an old saying that “When the cannons speak, the muses are silent”. We believe in the opposite, that when the cannons speak, the muses are heard. The focus of JetLAG 2022 was an anti-war message and a fundraiser, although we wished and hoped that Russia’s aggression in Ukraine would stop by the time the festival came around.
We know that even once this war is over, a more continuous, global and vicious circle of war, violence, repressions, hatred, partitioning, division and displacement, will be still ongoing as it has always been. We therefore, saw it as a time to contemplate the roots of a great tradition of open-air music festivals countering this evil with the wisdom, beauty and boldness of the liberal and transformational arts, striving for freedom, peace and justice, for a better world to come.
Symbolically enough, JetLAG’s site is located near Woodstock, where one of the most memorable and iconic festivals relevant to this great tradition has taken place once upon a time. The peaceworker and freedom-seeker spirit of such festivals, utterly American, is also very international. It has similar and different channels all over the world. We share the legacy of the Soviet Joan Baezes and Bob Dylans, the “bardic (folk) song” movement with its underground open-air forest “slyoty” (gatherings), the clandestine productions, and other social and cultural resistance practices from direct protests to internal and external emigration.
As a diaspora-initiated festival of three generations, we recognize immigration, displacement and exile as our shared destiny, which is also, in fact, an American destiny. So, we dedicated JetLAG-2022 to supporting Ukrainian refugees. Our goal was to collect 50K from ticket sales profit, merchandise sales and donations and to donate it to the refugee aid efforts. We raised $33,563.00. Wow. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts.
HOW DONATIONS ARE ALLOCATED
The donation allocation is based on committee members voting. Each committee member votes on their top 10 recipients. The recipients are recommended by informed members of the JetLAG community. In 2022, 14 recipients were chosen from the 25 recommended candidates. The money was allocated and distributed by the sum total of points for each candidate. Thank you to our friends and supporters who made this possible. It’s a big thing that we do together for one another.
GIVING BREAKDOWN FOR 2022
Total amount raised: $33,563.00
Donations: $15,250.25
Merchandise Sales: $1,531.25
Match from JetLAG Festival: $16,781.50
*** Ukraine Trust Chain: $6,261.75
Funds 100% volunteer teams in Ukraine who make urgent deliveries, including medicine, first aid, baby formula, food, and hygienic products. Teams evacuate children and seniors from the front lines — often under fire — and provide basic needs to the volunteer defense forces: fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters protecting their homeland and loved ones from Russian troops. 37,788 evacuations to date, tens of thousands of people fed and supported weekly
*** Медичний Добровольчий Батальйон Госпітальєри • Hospitallers Paramedics – $4,132.76
Ukrainian volunteer paramedic organization specializing in front-line medicine, medical training, and refugee evacuations. They need money for fuel, vehicles, etc. It was founded at the beginning of hostilities in Ukraine in 2014.
*** Operation Sunflower: $3,882.29
Directly fulfilling real-time demand for life-saving equipment and supplies for those in Ukraine that need them most.
*** Hearts for Ukraine: $3,631.82
Hearts for Ukraine is a campaign to save lives in Ukraine by delivering critical supplies directly to hospitals, shelters, schools, orphanages, nursing homes, refugee support centers, and the territorial defense forces of Ukraine.
*** Cars for Ukraine – $3,256.11
Procurement and delivery of vehicles (cars, ambulances, trucks) for front-line and humanitarian missions.
*** Rubikus – $3,130.88
Logistics help to get refugees find and reach new homes in Europe. Entirely run by volunteers. They identify routes, arrange transportation, and provide extra mobility support for those that need it.
*** Coordination Council for Refugees (CCFR): $2,504.70
An NPO with a focus on coordinating refugee-related resources, information and organizations. This is one of the few organizations helping Russian asylum seekers and RU passport holders in detention centers and prisons at the US-Mexico border.
*** Пласт (Plast’) – $2,003.76
Youth organization “Plast – National Scout Organization of Ukraine” is a voluntary, non-political, non-confessional, non-profitable and independent all-Ukrainian organization, which extends its activity to the whole territory of Ukraine. A sort of ‘Boy Scouts’ Ukrainian equivalent. Medical supplies, procurement, and shipping and all types of humanitarian aid relief.
*** Global Disaster Relief Team (GDRT): $1,377.59
GDRT sends skilled medical professionals to hot spots in Ukraine and border countries. They procure donated medical supplies and deliver them to the places in Ukraine where they are most needed. They evaluate the need on the ground and see how, using the resources in our diaspora community, they can fill them.
*** Cash for Refugees: $1,252.35
They give cash directly to people displaced by the war in Ukraine. They focus on the most vulnerable: women with children, the elderly, and the disabled. No bureaucracy, no overhead, no delays
*** Anya Shmalko, Oleg Shishkov – $1,252.35
Network of Kharkiv residents who raise money for defenders, humanitarian projects for children, and psychological support groups for survivors.
*** Protez Foundation (Prosthetics for Ukraine) – $375.71
Helping Ukrainian children, soldiers and civilians of Ukraine who have lost their limbs during the war to get free prosthetics in the USA.
*** Vehicles of Light: $250.47
Evacuations in Ukraine and monetary support for vehicles and fuel
*** КоЛеСо – Навчально-тренувальний Центр тактичної медицини: $250.47
Tactical medical training in Ukraine
COMMUNITY TICKET PROGRAM
The JetLAG Community Appreciation Ticket program offers a limited amount of tickets at a discounted price for attendees who come from lower-income backgrounds, or who have exceptional circumstances – and for whom a discount would make an impactful difference in their ability to attend the festival.
We offer only a limited amount of discounted tickets. The Community Ticket Program is extended to participants who cannot otherwise afford a full-price ticket and who cannot volunteer to receive a discounted ticket. We understand that every situation is unique and the application provides an opportunity to elaborate on why you want to be considered for a JetLAG Community Ticket. The tickets will be attributed to participants based on their application, and early applications will be given prior consideration.
Important considerations:
- Community Tickets cost 75$.
- Applications are open until all JetLAG Community Tickets are awarded, or by May 31st, whichever comes first.
- If you have bought a ticket in Tier 1, 2, 3, or 4 you will NOT be eligible for the Community Ticket Program.
- Awarded applicants need to purchase their tickets online within three weeks after being awarded — otherwise, the ticket will be passed down to another applicant.
- JetLAG Community Tickets are non-transferable, and they are also non-refundable. Applicant should be prepared to present Photo ID at the door matching the name on the application.
GIVING BACK
JETLAG FESTIVAL CHARITY WORK
GOOD MUSIC FOR GOOD CAUSES
We dedicated JetLAG-2022 & 2023 to supporting Ukrainian refugees and raised almost $45,000 to help people impacted by the war in Ukraine. Half of the money came from your donations and merchandise sales, and the other half came from ticket sales. We’ve decided to continue this tradition with “Good Music for Good Causes”: an annual fundraiser to drive donations to Ukraine and other causes close to our community. We encourage all of you to support the spirit of Good Music for Good Causes with an optional $35 donation we’ve added onto each ticket purchase.
The recipients of the money raised will once again be causes and aid groups organized by and related to our JetLAG community. Our primary focus is to raise money for humanitarian efforts in Ukraine including medical aid and education, immigration and migration support, transportation, evacuations, clean water, and food delivery. Part of the funds this year will be dedicated in memory of Dina Vistman, a JetLAG community member who cared deeply and worked hard for the missions close to her heart and ours: Ukraine, reforestation in the Amazon, neuro-oncology research, and clean oceans.
WHY WE DEDICATE JETLAG TO NO WAR
There’s an old saying that “When the cannons speak, the muses are silent”. We believe in the opposite, that when the cannons speak, the muses are heard. The focus of JetLAG 2022 was an anti-war message and a fundraiser, although we wished and hoped that Russia’s aggression in Ukraine would stop by the time the festival came around.
We know that even once this war is over, a more continuous, global and vicious circle of war, violence, repressions, hatred, partitioning, division and displacement, will be still ongoing as it has always been. We therefore, saw it as a time to contemplate the roots of a great tradition of open-air music festivals countering this evil with the wisdom, beauty and boldness of the liberal and transformational arts, striving for freedom, peace and justice, for a better world to come.
Symbolically enough, JetLAG’s site is located near Woodstock, where one of the most memorable and iconic festivals relevant to this great tradition has taken place once upon a time. The peaceworker and freedom-seeker spirit of such festivals, utterly American, is also very international. It has similar and different channels all over the world. We share the legacy of the Soviet Joan Baezes and Bob Dylans, the “bardic (folk) song” movement with its underground open-air forest “slyoty” (gatherings), the clandestine productions, and other social and cultural resistance practices from direct protests to internal and external emigration.
As a diaspora-initiated festival of three generations, we recognize immigration, displacement and exile as our shared destiny, which is also, in fact, an American destiny. So, we dedicated JetLAG-2022 to supporting Ukrainian refugees. Our goal was to collect 50K from ticket sales profit, merchandise sales and donations and to donate it to the refugee aid efforts. We raised $33,563.00. Wow. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts.
HOW DONATIONS ARE ALLOCATED
The donation allocation is based on committee members voting. Each committee member votes on their top 10 recipients. The recipients are recommended by informed members of the JetLAG community. In 2022, 14 recipients were chosen from the 25 recommended candidates. The money was allocated and distributed by the sum total of points for each candidate. Thank you to our friends and supporters who made this possible. It’s a big thing that we do together for one another.
GIVING BREAKDOWN FOR 2022
Total amount raised: $33,563.00
Donations: $15,250.25
Merchandise Sales: $1,531.25
Match from JetLAG Festival: $16,781.50
*** Ukraine Trust Chain: $6,261.75
Funds 100% volunteer teams in Ukraine who make urgent deliveries, including medicine, first aid, baby formula, food, and hygienic products. Teams evacuate children and seniors from the front lines — often under fire — and provide basic needs to the volunteer defense forces: fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters protecting their homeland and loved ones from Russian troops. 37,788 evacuations to date, tens of thousands of people fed and supported weekly
*** Медичний Добровольчий Батальйон Госпітальєри • Hospitallers Paramedics – $4,132.76
Ukrainian volunteer paramedic organization specializing in front-line medicine, medical training, and refugee evacuations. They need money for fuel, vehicles, etc. It was founded at the beginning of hostilities in Ukraine in 2014.
*** Operation Sunflower: $3,882.29
Directly fulfilling real-time demand for life-saving equipment and supplies for those in Ukraine that need them most.
*** Hearts for Ukraine: $3,631.82
Hearts for Ukraine is a campaign to save lives in Ukraine by delivering critical supplies directly to hospitals, shelters, schools, orphanages, nursing homes, refugee support centers, and the territorial defense forces of Ukraine.
*** Cars for Ukraine – $3,256.11
Procurement and delivery of vehicles (cars, ambulances, trucks) for front-line and humanitarian missions.
*** Rubikus – $3,130.88
Logistics help to get refugees find and reach new homes in Europe. Entirely run by volunteers. They identify routes, arrange transportation, and provide extra mobility support for those that need it.
*** Coordination Council for Refugees (CCFR): $2,504.70
An NPO with a focus on coordinating refugee-related resources, information and organizations. This is one of the few organizations helping Russian asylum seekers and RU passport holders in detention centers and prisons at the US-Mexico border.
*** Пласт (Plast’) – $2,003.76
Youth organization “Plast – National Scout Organization of Ukraine” is a voluntary, non-political, non-confessional, non-profitable and independent all-Ukrainian organization, which extends its activity to the whole territory of Ukraine. A sort of ‘Boy Scouts’ Ukrainian equivalent. Medical supplies, procurement, and shipping and all types of humanitarian aid relief.
*** Global Disaster Relief Team (GDRT): $1,377.59
GDRT sends skilled medical professionals to hot spots in Ukraine and border countries. They procure donated medical supplies and deliver them to the places in Ukraine where they are most needed. They evaluate the need on the ground and see how, using the resources in our diaspora community, they can fill them.
*** Cash for Refugees: $1,252.35
They give cash directly to people displaced by the war in Ukraine. They focus on the most vulnerable: women with children, the elderly, and the disabled. No bureaucracy, no overhead, no delays
*** Anya Shmalko, Oleg Shishkov – $1,252.35
Network of Kharkiv residents who raise money for defenders, humanitarian projects for children, and psychological support groups for survivors.
*** Protez Foundation (Prosthetics for Ukraine) – $375.71
Helping Ukrainian children, soldiers and civilians of Ukraine who have lost their limbs during the war to get free prosthetics in the USA.
*** Vehicles of Light: $250.47
Evacuations in Ukraine and monetary support for vehicles and fuel
*** КоЛеСо – Навчально-тренувальний Центр тактичної медицини: $250.47
Tactical medical training in Ukraine
COMMUNITY TICKET PROGRAM
The JetLAG Community Appreciation Ticket program offers a limited amount of tickets at a discounted price for attendees who come from lower-income backgrounds, or who have exceptional circumstances – and for whom a discount would make an impactful difference in their ability to attend the festival.
We offer only a limited amount of discounted tickets. The Community Ticket Program is extended to participants who cannot otherwise afford a full-price ticket and who cannot volunteer to receive a discounted ticket. We understand that every situation is unique and the application provides an opportunity to elaborate on why you want to be considered for a JetLAG Community Ticket. The tickets will be attributed to participants based on their application, and early applications will be given prior consideration.
Important considerations:
- Community Tickets cost 75$.
- Applications are open until all JetLAG Community Tickets are awarded, or by May 1st, whichever comes first.
- If you have bought a ticket in Tier 1, 2, 3, or 4 you will NOT be eligible for the Community Ticket Program.
- Awarded applicants need to purchase their tickets online within three weeks after being awarded — otherwise, the ticket will be passed down to another applicant.
- JetLAG Community Tickets are non-transferable, and they are also non-refundable. Applicant should be prepared to present Photo ID at the door matching the name on the application.