2022-430-E-Arts Commission-Voices the Chapel Hill Chorus-2022-23 Arts grants

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Please describe efforts by your organization to generate revenue. Voices generates rev enue from member dues, donations, grants, ticket sales, program adv ertisement sales, fundraisers, sponsorships, endowments, and miscellaneous efforts such as Amazon Smile and selling Voices merchandise. Voices' members are an important revenue source because of the dues they pay, donations they give, concert program ads they sell, and the fundraisers they participate in. We fully recognize that the organization is dependent upon our membership in multiple ways and keep people inv olv ed and enthusiastic through season opening and closing parties, and by keeping practices fun and musically educational. The past two years hav e been rev enue-challenging as ticket and program advertisements sales disappeared, and the size of the chorus decreased. Fortunately, donations from both individuals (within and without the chorus) and corporations were on an upward trend. In late FY20, the Board, recognizing the challenges ahead, stepped up efforts to obtain grants. In FY20 grant income was less than $3,000. That increased to $18,000 in FY21 and a projected $19,000 in FY22. We hav e come through the Cov id upheav al in good financial shape primarily due to donation and grant income and are grateful for it. We are keeping our grant efforts up as times are uncertain, and unfortunately hav e reason to believ e our remarkable success with donations may decline as two of our most generous donors hav e left the community. Historically Voices' fundraisers hav e met with success. Every holiday season, members sell local pecans and pecans candies to the public generating approximately $5,000 for the Chorus. In FY2019 we had a successful $5,000 GoFundMe campaign. This past Spring we sold specialized coffee and coffee products and generated close to $1,000. We plan to continue to selling pecans in the Fall, and try new fundraisers in Spring. Ticket sales normally generate ov er $20k for the Chorus although this fiscal year 2022 we hav e seen that number cut in half. W e expect our audiences will return although the pandemic makes timing uncertain. Likewise with our decreased membership although we are v ery excited by the high turnout for Summer Voices this year (82 v s. an av erage of 60.) Sponsorships to date are small but add up to about $4,000 per year. Ev ery season members hav e the opportunity to "Sponsor A Singer" by paying a set amount in addition to their own dues. For Summer Voices the v oluntary sponsorship paid by members is $35 and two singers hav e used those sponsorships to join our roster this Summer. We also usually find a sponsor to buy t-shirts for our Summer Voices concert wear, often a member or friend of the Chorus. Voices is the beneficiary of two small endowments. The Joel J. and Eleanor Cely Carter endowment is intended to showcase new composers and support commissions of new choral works and totals $45,000. In 2018 an endowment was raised in honor of Sue Klausmeyer who was retiring after 18 years as Voices Artistic Director. This fund supports instrumentalists, organists, soloists and other enrichment needs for the Chorus and currently totals $19,500. Resumes of artists/administrators Stephen_Futrell_resume.docx.pdf Shoko_Abe_resume.docx.pdf Shuman_Emily_resume.docx Board of Directors List Board_of_Directors_June_2022.pdf IRS Tax Exemption 1996_04_22_CHCC_IRS_nonprofit_status.pdf Publicity Samples Awakenings_of_the_Soul_Poster.pdf Work Samples n/a Video Sample: External Link 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =IqzwCSoVXV8 Video Sample: External Link 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =wxUTTaKcXW0 Video Sample: External Link 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =4zix3LXae3w Letters of support (optional)n/a DocuSign Envelope ID: 4B2B49D2-B4B4-4397-AE2C-5AA9D33F13C3