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Gem City Catfé: Dayton's Cat Café and Community Space

Created by Karin Gudal-Johnson

Gem City Catfé is a comfortable coffee house in Dayton, OH, home to adoptable rescue cats, with a community focus.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Merch Pick Up + Shipping!
almost 7 years ago – Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 01:31:01 PM

Hi Friends!

Another Merch Pick Up!

Our next merch pick up event will be this Saturday, June 18th from 11am - 4pm at the Dayton Outdoor Markets at Front St. Pins and bow-ties are now in, so we'll have everything ready for you! You can come check out the other vendors, open air art studios, and food trucks! We'll also have some delicious cold brew if it's a hot day! You can check out the Facebook event by clicking here!

In other news...

In case you missed the last update, our plans were approved by the Health Department! We're just waiting on our Building Permit, which we expect this week or next. Then we'll be moving forward as quickly as possible to finish construction! As soon as we have our building permit, we'll be able to set dates for the VIP Party, Early Entry week and the public grand opening!

Surveys

Only 49 surveys not answered - still making progress! If we don't get your survey response in the next couple of weeks, we will just use your name on the Pawrter Wall. You'll still be in the system to come in for Early Entry week! If you are checking our page and see this update, but haven't been getting emails, please verify that there isn't a typo in the Kickstarter email address on file!

Shipping

We've finally got all the merch in stock and we'll begin packaging orders! The goal is to get everything shipped by June 30th. We'll send an update when everything has gone out! 

Keep in touch! 

We'd love to stay in touch after Kickstarter is all wrapped up! 

Email Updates | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Pinterest

We'll keep you all in the loop as we get more information! Thank you again for supporting this project so that it could become a reality!

Merch Pick Up + Good News!
almost 7 years ago – Wed, May 31, 2017 at 03:15:32 PM

Hi Friends! 

First Merch Pick Up!

Our first merch pick up event will be this Saturday, June 3rd in front of our building - 1513 E 5th St from 8am - 2pm.

 

This coincides with our St Anne's Hill neighborhood-wide garage sale - Trash N Treasure. We will be the map stop (so many sales that we need maps) and offering free hot coffee! We'll have snacks for sale from our bakery partner, Rachel Bakes if you need some breakfast biscuits or a sweet treat. Huffman and the Oregon District are also doing yard sales, so we hope you'll be able to check them out and score some awesome finds!

*Please note that pins and bow-ties are not in yet. If you ordered one of those items, we can do a partial pick up if you'd like to grab your other swag!

Next Merch Pick Up

Our next merch pick up event will be June 18th from 11am - 4pm at the Dayton Outdoor Markets at Front St. Pins and bow-ties will be in so we'll have everything ready for you! You can come check out the other vendors, open air art studios, and food trucks! 

In other news...

Our plans were approved by the Health Department! Huzzah! Now we're just waiting on our Building Permit and we'll be moving forward as quickly as possible to finish construction! As soon as we have our building permit, we'll be able to set dates for the VIP Party, Early Entry week and the public grand opening! 

Surveys

Only 55 surveys not answered - making progress! If we don't get your survey response in the next couple of weeks, we will just use your name on the Pawrter Wall. You'll still be in the system to come in for Early Entry week! If you are checking our page and see this update, but haven't been getting emails, please verify that there isn't a typo in the Kickstarter email address on file! 

Shipping

For those of you waiting on things to come in the mail, we will begin shipping orders as soon as all the merch comes in. We'll send an update when we're at that stage!

That's it for now!

We'll keep you all in the loop as we get more information! Thank you again for supporting this project so that it could become a reality! 

Last chance to select your reward information!
about 7 years ago – Mon, May 01, 2017 at 02:18:49 PM

Hi everyone! We are locking down our surveys today and we still have 89 people that we need to give us their details! Please check your emails for the survey from us through Backerkit so that we can make sure to get all the right info such as: the right name on the Pawrtner Wall, correct t-shirt size and style, or the name you'd like to name a cat. 

If you can't find the survey in your inbox, please shoot me a message and we can re-send it or double check the email address on file! 

We want to make this experience as positive and smooth as possible for everyone involved and we need your help to make it happen! 

We will be placing all the orders tonight, and as soon as all the items come in, we will notify everyone of local pick up events or that we've shipped items for those of you out of town. 

Thank you all for helping us get started! We will keep updating through Kickstarter, as well as email and social media when we get new information about our progress. I placed links below for easy access!

Click for Email list. 

Click for Facebook. 

Click for Instagram.

Happy Monday!

One week left for surveys!
about 7 years ago – Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 06:59:05 PM

Hi everyone! Thank you so much for helping us use Backerkit to collect reward information! We'll be locking down surveys on Monday, May 1 so please take a minute over the next week to fill out the survey! We'll be ordering all our merchandise then and we will keep everyone updated on when Pick Up events will be, or when shipping has started! 

Thank you all for your support and making this project happen!

Karin and Sabrina

Survey Update
about 7 years ago – Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 09:53:30 PM

Hi friends! 

Thank you again for making our project a reality! We thought we'd be sending out surveys at the beginning of this week (April 10th - yesterday). We decided to use a program called Backerkit to help us make fulfillment as easier for all of you (and us on the back-end) and they recommend that we wait 14 days before sending surveys. This is our first time using both Kickstarter and Backerkit so we apologize for the confusion and thank you for your patience! More info below:

First, Kickstarter needs to transfer over the funds so we have the money to make the rewards (this can take up to two weeks).

Second, we have to find out and where we need to ship them. We will send out a BackerKit survey to collect this information on April 14th.

We will give another update right after we send the surveys so that no one will miss on accident! You will not need to create a BackerKit account to answer your survey. The invitation email will contain a link to your personal survey. It is important to submit your responses as quickly as you can since we need this information to process your rewards.

If you need to change your survey responses, add or remove add-ons, or update your shipping information, you can click on the link in your survey email again or request your survey link under "Lost your survey?" on our BackerKit project page. (This page will only start working after we send the surveys out.)

BackerKit helps us save lots of time by streamlining the survey process, automating data organization, and providing us with pledge management software to make it easy to process your pledge reward shipments. If you prefer, you can just message me and give me your information, but answering your survey will help us stay sane and get your rewards out to you quicker.

If you used Facebook to log into your Kickstarter account, the BackerKit survey link will be sent to the email you used for your Facebook account. If you have another email address that you'd prefer to use, please message me. We'll send reminders with details in our next update as well. 

Again, thanks for all your support. We're proud of Dayton and can't wait to see you all at the Catfé!

-Karin and Sabrina