Jedi Fund

The mission of Sky Candy’s JEDI Fund is to promote Justice, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in our programming and in our community creation practices.  We work together to help address historic injustices and create a better world; democratizing access to aerial arts and physical activity is part of that. Learning aerial arts in a safe and supportive environment can foster personal growth for individuals and create positive change in our community. 

The fund offers financial support to members of our community from marginalized backgrounds who may not otherwise be able to afford to make aerial arts a part of their lives. Since 2017, we have given out over $25,000 in funds to students from historically marginalized backgrounds. Our current fundraising is focused on scholarships for Sky Camp students in 2025.

Get Involved

Come to our Quinceañera

About Our Event

Saturday May 31, 2025
8pm - midnight
Sky Candy | 1023 Springdale Road Bldg 8A

In 2010, a little company named Sky Candy was born and this year, she turns 15! Join us for our Quinceañera celebrating our community and what the future holds. Expect an evening of spectacular performances, engaging interactive art, dancing, heartfelt toasts, cocktails, a real-life human pinata, and a whole lot of fun to raise funds for the JEDI Fund.

The JEDI Fund allows us to offer the transformative power of circus arts education to members of our community from marginalized backgrounds. This year our efforts are focused on raising funds to support even more youth students joining our 2025 Sky Camp season. In the last two years, our Youth Program worked with families in need, SAFE, and Settlement Home to provide over 30 scholarships to our Sky Camp summer camp program.

Celebrate with us and support a good cause at the same time!

Donate

You can make a direct one-time donation in any amount by purchasing a JEDI Fund Donation from our MindBody site.

We also have options for recurring (monthly) donations of $5, $10, $25, $50, or $100.

We also have an optional donation for the JEDI Fund attached to all of our Student Showcases.

100% of your donation goes into the JEDI fund.

Apply

If you are applying for scholarship funds, please fill out this form.

We are currently prioritizing applications from youth students from marginalized backgrounds for our 2025 Sky Camp season.

To find out more about JEDI principles, and how to apply them to yourself or your organization, check out UNC’s JEDI Toolkit. It is full of self-reflective exercises and educational resources on microaggressions, implicit bias, and other ways to identify blind spots, find and correct discriminatory practices, and just generally do better.

If you have questions about our program or how to apply, please email our Program Director.