Join our 25th Anniversary VOICES Season Contributors

Please consider joining our individual and corporate sponsors. Your contributions enable us to provide the best possible concert spaces, soloists and instrumentalists in the area for your enjoyment. Please consider becoming a contributor, or upgrading your status as a contributor. New friends are always welcome!

Thank you!

Mission

VOICES seeks to deepen the public appreciation of vocal music by performing outstanding choral works at the highest possible artistic level. VOICES seeks to inspire audiences through creative programming and exceptional performances of masterworks from the past as well as music of our time. VOICES seeks to educate audiences through lively pre-concert discussions and through opportunities for audience, composers and artists to meet informally. VOICES seeks to develop appreciation of new music and the composition process by encouraging children to compose music. It is VOICES' goal to educate audience and performers for the future, both children and adults, through innovative, comprehensive programs for families, schools and diverse communities.

Sponsors

VOICES appreciates your support of our Chorale, Sotto Voce, outreach and children's composition performances. Your contributions have enabled VOICES to grow in numbers and in the quality of music we offer to the community. Each season, VOICES is able to expand its vocal repertoire, and many of our members become engaged in vocal training at their own expense to further improve the quality of our music. We sincerely hope that you will continue or increase your contributions for the current 25th Anniversary concert season.

Why Contribute?

Service Area and Community Service

VOICES serves the Mercer County, NJ and Bucks County, PA areas with professional quality choral music performed by unpaid Chorale members, with a varied and stimulating repertoire, adding a rich contribution to the areas' cultural life by educating both audiences and Chorale members through the performance of great choral music. VOICES is recognized and known for high quality performances, led by its nationally known music director, Dr. Lyn Ransom, and is often asked to perform with area orchestral ensembles, performs with other groups at prestigious venues, and has toured internationally.

VOICES has a track record of outstanding community service reaching schools, hospitals, young people, and senior citizens in our 25-year history. Recent examples include special concerts for senior citizens at the Rossmoor Center, the Presbyterian Homes, and the Attleboro, D'Youville and Twining Village assisted living facilities. The Chorale conducts an annual Children's Composition Contest for community youth, helping to educate and develop interest in music.

VOICES performance income from ticket sales and free will contributions cover only a small portion of its expenses, as is true of almost all fine arts organizations. It depends on support from its Chorale members, individuals, businesses, foundations and governmental agencies to be able to continue to serve the area, and is organized as a non-profit entity. VOICES is sustained by our season contributors. Your contributions enable VOICES to provide the best possible concert spaces, soloists and instrumentalists in the area for your enjoyment. You can also make scholarships available to singers that could not otherwise perform with us without financial assistance.

Responsible and Prudent Use of Funds

VOICES is prudent and responsible in its use of contributed funds. Its Chorale members contribute time and talent for all rehearsals and performances, and fund a significant portion of annual expenses, which are primarily for the professional staff, venue rentals, music, marketing, and fund raising. Concert ticket and CD sales defray a portion of expenses. VOICES contribution to the community is recognized by leading arts organizations, leading to funding support from the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission in partnership with the New Jersey Council on the Arts / Department of State, and, in the past, the Genuardi Family Foundation and the 5-County Arts Fund, a Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts program of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Recognition of Your Support

VOICES sponsors receive wide recognition in concert programs and mailings, which reach over 2500 homes and businesses, as well as marketing materials and press releases, unless anonymity is requested.

We need the help of former contributors and new concert goers to continue these offerings. VOICES is a labor of love for its members and hard-working Board of Trustees. Ticket sales and your tax-deductible contributions provide the majority of our season funds. Please be generous.

Please join our season contributors...

VOICES is a 501(c)3 non-for-profit organization incorporated in the State of New Jersey.

Your tax deductible gift will enable us to finish this year a financial success, as well as a musical one. Please consider becoming a contributor, or upgrading your status as a contributor by sending your contribution to Voices Chorale, P.O. Box 404, Pennington, New Jersey 08534 or online with your credit or debit card (or Paypal account) by clicking on the "donate" button below. You will receive written acknowledgement of your donation (by email for online donations.) You may also refer any questions to info@voiceschorale.org or call 609-637-9383.

Composer ($2,500 +)

Benefactor ($1,000 - $2,499)

Patron ($500 - $999)

Sponsor ($250 - $499)

Supporter ($100 - $249)

Contributor ($50 - $99)

Friend (Up to $49)

Thank you!

Contribute while you shop online!

You can also support VOICES by ordering items on-line! Just go to www.iGive.com. Basically, when you register at iGive.com and designate your donation organization as VOICES (it's already on the list!), anytime you order anything on-line by passing through iGive.com to visit your favorite online retailers (LLBean, Macy's, Barnes & Noble, j.crew, Lands End, Best Buy,...), a portion of your order will go towards VOICES. You do not pay extra for this service and each store donates a different share of their proceeds. All you need to do is go visit iGive.com first and then, through that website, go to your favorite on-line store. It's really easy! We know it may sound minimal, but every little bit helps and it's really simple to do!