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Support Columbia
Choirs
Concert ticket purchases cover only about 50%
of the expense of producing our concerts. You can support Columbia
Choir's concert season and educational outreach projects with a donation.
Your tax-deductible gift will be gratefully acknowledged in our concert
programs.
Our existence relies heavily on the generous donations from our members,
as well as public and private sponsors.
The Columbia Choirs Association (CCA) is a not-for-profit
501(c)(3) organization run by adult volunteers, mainly parents
of the children singers in Columbia Choirs, Inc (CCI). It functions
as a support organization for the CCI and depends totally on members
and parents. We provide scholarships for tours, retreats, and tuition;
run the uniform bank; provide chaperone for choir activities; and
arrange and pay for concert opportunities. Of all of these activities,
our most important function is the providing of scholarships. Dues
and any other donations to the Association are fully tax deductible
for tax purposes.
The by-laws of CCA require that a minimum of 80% of our revenues
after operating expenses be used for scholarship. We are dedicated
to ensuring that no child will be unable to participate in Columbia
Choirs due to financial difficulties. The primary motivation behind
this dedication is simply that we see the benefit to individual children
and adults of participating in choir, we understand that such participation
helps children grow into strong and generous adults, and we see the
benefit to our community of offering the gift of music. We also appreciate
the value of a diverse choir, one which includes people from a wide
variety of backgrounds, and which will help to foster understanding
and acceptance between these people as they grow through choir. And
on a more mundane level, providing scholarships helps ensure that
we are able to field a balanced choir for tours and concerts. If,
for example, too many altos are unable to pay for a choir tour, it
can jeopardize the ability of the entire choir to participate.
As a fiscally responsible organization, CCA does not award scholarships
out of money which may be needed for operating expenses; rather,
at the end of a fiscal year, we determine what our excess money is
after all operating expenses for that year have been paid; that becomes
the money we use for scholarships for the following year.
To support Columbia Choirs, please send your tax-deductible
contribution to:
Columbia Choirs Association
PO. Box 2472
Kirkland, Washington 98083-2472
Contact our Fundraising Chairperson for
more information and our EIN/Non-Profit Tax ID number.
Other ways you can help:
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Make GoodSearch your default search engine and specify Columbia Choirs Association as the recipient. Each click makes a penny for Columbia Choirs, and there are also some store links that will donate a portion of their sales to Columbia Choirs if reached via GoodSearch.com. Go to http://www.GoodSearch.com .
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Give.com - Shop through iGive.com OR just surf their stores.
Their online mall features trusted online retailers like Lands' End, Staples, NORDSTROM, JCPenney, eBay, Expedia.com, Barnes & Noble, QVC and PETsMART to name just a few! Join to support the CCA at http://www.iGive.com/html/refer.cfm?memberid=525327&causeid=43173.
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Do you shop at Albertson's? The Columbia Choirs Association is a member of the Albertson's Community Partners Program. Shoppers can earn money for their favorite schools or non-profit youth organizations - just by using their Preferred Savings Card. All you need to do is register your
Albertson's Preferred Savings Card and show it when you shop.
CCA's Partner's number is 490001120720
click to register your Preferred Savings Card
Enter your zip code and Click on "Register" in the top right corner
Columbia Choirs concerts are supported in part by Classic
KING FM, a Sustaining Grant
from The King
County Arts Commission and project grants by the Washington
State Arts Commission and The
Bellevue Arts Commission.
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