Dear Symphony Family,
We hope you enjoyed this wonderful season of inspirational and diverse music from Your Symphony. Your support and sponsorships helped Maestro Danny Stewart create this amazingly powerful season that had everyone clapping, cheering, and sometimes even weeping with the strength and beauty of each concert.
We need your help to continue to provide our community with the quality performances you have come to expect. Our Symphony Association Board has generously offered up $40,000 for a matching grant. Every dollar you donate between now and Monday, May 30th will be matched one-for-one.
We don’t want to leave even a penny on the table, and neither do you. So, could you help us meet this challenge? A fully funded match would mean $80,000 going straight into our budget for next season.
Here’s why it’s especially important. As with most arts organizations, Covid provided many challenges for us. Without a performance season for part of the time, and with safety restrictions and patron concerns this year, our ticket revenue was down significantly. Hopefully the worst is behind us and we can return to a more normal capacity. But even if we sold every seat, ticket revenue only covers about 50% of the cost to bring this music to you.
The Symphony received funding from the federal government to help support us during this global Covid crisis. But that is not going to continue. Of course, we will be pursuing other means of support such as grants from public and private foundations. But we still need your generous support. And if you are interested in becoming a sponsor at any level, please inform the Symphony office and we will be glad to follow up and discuss sponsorship options.
You are a valuable part of our Symphony family, so we know that you will help us with whatever amount you can give.
Thank you again for your loyalty and for your dedication to fine musical performances.
Musically yours,
Linda Burroughs
Board President
PS – Remember that Monday May 30th, is our deadline for this match! Let’s make this happen!