To the Editor:

Dancing with the Geneva Stars is a fun, exciting event. But it has a purpose, a reason for being.

The event is a benefit – it is the only fundraiser for the Geneva Cultural Arts Commission has to support many events and projects. The Geneva Academic Foundation, the commission’s partner for Dancing with the Geneva Stars, receives a percentage of the net profit to support its grants to the Geneva schools. In 2012, 11 percent of the funds raised by the foundation for supplemental programs, educational resources and scholarships to benefit Geneva students came from Dancing with the Geneva Stars.