Help Us Prepare for The HIVE's First Official Season of Events Starting April 2025
Become A Member of
The Golden Honey
Donor Club!
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And scroll down to see our letter about all the things we've accomplished in the past year, with your help!
​​Level 1: Any Amount! Be A Member Of The Golden Honey Donor Club ALL donors of ANY AMOUNT will be honored on our website by name in perpetuity (forever!) as Golden Honey Donors - a special group of those who supported us from the very beginning! Already a Golden Honey Donor? If you make a second donation, we will add a "Queen Bee" crown to your name on our site. You can also "Level Up" by adding to your last donation to get the Level benefits below.
Level 2: $250 or More! Be A Queen Bee Member Of The Golden Honey Donor Club. For every $250 you donate, receive an invitation for 1 person to come to The HIVE HQ for a toast and private concert by Frederic as a thank you! (Each additional $250 gets a ticket as well!) Champagne and light apps will be served.
Level 3: $3,500+ Be a Super-Pollinator Of Your own Private Party! Donate $3,500 and Frederic and Jeanine will come to you and turn your private dinner party into a HIVE Event! Included is a mini-concert by Frederic followed by a HIVE Conversation on a theme of your choice among your guests during dinner! (Max guests 16, food & piano not included!)
Thank You,
Golden Honey
Donors!
If You Believe What We Believe,
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"Community" is almost always defined as a group of people with common ideas, common characteristics, common goals or living in a common location. But in recent times, this has created a society made up of closed circles and hunkering down.
The HIVE believes there is a broader community that is defined simply by being human and that the time to reveal and activate it is now...
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The HIVE operates under Beechwood Arts and Innovation, a 501(c)3 non-profit.
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A letter to our Golden Honey Donor Club Members...
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The HIVE Has Officially Launched! Thank You!!
At The HIVE, we believe that a broader sense of community, defined simply by being human, can be revealed within and across communities. We believe this can happen by creating opportunities to engage, fueled by the arts, dialogue & collaborative ideas. These opportunities allow people to discover connections around being human, build understanding, foster a spirit of belonging and transform perspectives. We believe that the world needs more of this, and we believe the time for this is now.
We asked for your support last May, to help us make The HIVE a reality and to help us to do something that hasn’t been done before. It reminded us of when we set out to create Beechwood Arts in 2011, when we also set out to do “the impossible” – to create a tapestry of people from many locations to come together to enjoy a full mix of ALL the arts and community conversation – all around themes of being human – to connect, engage and to come away with a new or deeper understanding of themselves and others. Many of you supported the building of Beechwood and helped to make it into the magic that it became, complete with extraordinary experiences, engagement, dialogue and connection.
When we sold Beechwood, we set out to build “The HIVE by Beechwood” with an even more expansive mission – one that continues to build on that same legacy of community and connection, but to bring it out across all communities in partnership with the amazing Community Organizations of Fairfield County and beyond.
We asked again for your help – and you showed up!!! The early support we received from you, our Golden Honey Donor Club, allowed us to do the due diligence necessary to build the HIVE. We did the development, exploration, meetings and work-sessions with more than 48 organizations and 60 Leaders of Community, Arts and Culture Organizations, as well as tested The HIVE’s core Offerings & Conversations with the public at 10 events across several towns that allowed us to shape and define The HIVE.
And we are excited to announce that, with your help, The HIVE launched on April 1!
The HIVE’s mission is twofold: 1. To facilitate community conversation for deeper engagement, connection and understanding and to create a sense of community. 2. To help Community Organizations collaborate and connect through The HIVE Partner Network.
We will all work together to create a "Human Pollinator Pathway" across communities!
The tools we are bringing to The HIVE are ones that we know work to build unexpected connection, understanding, empathy, collaboration & ideas between people!
And, because of you and your support, we now find ourselves standing at the threshold, once again, of a newly opened door…
Thank you!
BEE A VOLUNTEER!!
As with all beehives, it takes a lot of teamwork to
create and run The HIVE's community-centered programs, and we can only do it with your help!
The HIVE needs volunteers of all kinds, and we promise we'll have fun together doing the work! Please sign up and let us know how you'd like to be involved.