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Your gift keeps puppetry moving.
Your support helps HoBT pay artists, bring puppetry into schools and communities, keep programs accessible, care for our Puppet & Mask Lending Library, and create new opportunities for people to make, play, gather, and imagine together.
Every gift helps keep HoBT creating and connected.
🌱 Become a SeedKeeper
Our monthly sustainers are called SeedKeepers.
Monthly giving provides dependable support HoBT can count on between grants, performances, and special events. That stability helps us plan ahead—and gives us the flexibility to say YES when a community partner calls, an artist brings us an idea, or an unexpected opportunity arises.
SeedKeepers keep HoBT moving, creating, and connected.
Why monthly giving?
A monthly gift doesn't have to be large to be powerful. Reliable support from many people gives HoBT greater stability, reduces our reliance on a few large funding sources, and helps demonstrate strong community support when we seek grants and other funding.
Most importantly, it gives us room to respond.
When an opportunity comes along, we want to be able to say:
YES, let's bring the puppets.
YES, let's support that artist.
YES, let's make this accessible.
YES, let's try something new.
🌱 Become a SeedKeeper and help HoBT say YES.
Your Gift at Work
Your support helps HoBT:
🎭 Pay artists and teaching artists fairly
We create opportunities for artists to make, perform, teach, collaborate, and develop their craft.
📚 Keep puppetry accessible
Your gifts help make free and affordable programs like Puppet Storytime and the Puppet & Mask Lending Library possible. The Library makes HoBT's collection available to the public to borrow at no cost.
🌱 Grow artists and new ideas
Artist training, mentorship, residencies, workshops, Puppet Clinic, and other opportunities create space for artists to learn from one another and experiment.
🚚 Bring HoBT into the community
HoBT works with schools and community partners and brings puppetry beyond our walls through performances, workshops, Storytime, and other programs.
❤️ Take care of what makes the work possible
General operating gifts support the less-visible essentials, too—staff, transportation, storage, insurance, technology, accessibility, facilities, and all the everyday work behind the puppets.