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Forty for Forty

Cantate’s 40th Anniversary Campaign

Join in the celebration of our achievements and in the creation of an even more meaningful future by helping us to raise $40,000 this year in honor of our 40^th year. Cantate gratefully acknowledges the gifts of board members and core supporters that have already brought us halfway to this goal. Your additional donation of any size makes a real difference by bringing us closer to the matching $20,000: $50 provides instrumental sheet music parts for a concert; $100 covers dues for a choir member in need; $175 provides venue rental for one rehearsal; $500 provides a clinician for a LEV masterclass; $700 sponsors a soloist for a concert; $1000 sponsors a LEV fellow for a semester; $2,500 provides a performance venue; and finally, $5,000 underwrites a season concert of special meaning to you. All gifts establish Cantate as a resource for the whole community to be transported, challenged, and transformed through artistic excellence, bold innovation, and embracing welcome.

DONATE TO 40 for 40!

Cantate’s supporters are vital to building community through choral music.

Thank you for making our community possible.

Ways You Can Support Cantate

Because only a small portion of our overall revenue comes from ticket sales, Cantate’s organizational success is only possible thanks to generous donations of time, talent and resources by our singers and patrons, donors and institutional supporters. Cantate welcomes gifts of any size at any time to enable our meaningful programming and ambitious mission. Donations can be made in support of the organization in general or designated to further a specific program or concert. Please contact Executive Director Cara Schaefer at exec@cantate.org to discuss underwriting a concert of particular meaning to you.

One-Time and Recurring Gifts

One time and recurring gifts may also be made by credit card on our online donations portal:

DONATE TO CANTATE

Gifts may be made by check payable to “Cantate” and delivered by hand to a staff member or mailed to

Cantate
P.O. box 11433
Takoma Park, MD 20913

Donor Advised Funds

Make Cantate your charity of choice through a donor-advised fund. Donor-Advised Funds (DAF) are an excellent way to simplify your charitable giving and direct your support to Cantae. We are a 501(c)(3) charitable tax-exempt nonprofit, and our Federal Tax ID number is 52-1447309. Please contact your financial advisor to initiate a gift, or you can also consider naming “Cantate” as a remainder beneficiary of your donor-advised fund.

Gifts of stock

Gifts of securities can be made directly from your broker to Cantate’s brokerage account. To make a gift of stock, please contact your broker and provide the account information provided below. We encourage you to speak with your financial advisor about how to manage your stock gifts.

Stock Transfer Information:

Federal Tax ID Number: 52-1447309
DTC: 0141
Incoming brokerage: Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC
One North Jefferson Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63103
Brokerage Account Number: 5059-5868
Memo: [Please indicate your full name in the Memo field of your stock transfer form for Cantate to properly acknowledge your gift.]

If you’re sending stock, please let us know! Contact our Executive Director Cara Schaefer at exec@cantate.org with your broker’s name and phone number and the name and number of shares you are donating.

The tax advantage of a stock gift is that, under current tax laws, the full fair market value of stock and bonds may be deducted. The value of your gift is the value upon transfer to Cantate’s brokerage account.

IRA Charitable Rollover (QCD)

Individuals may begin taking distributions from their Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) as early as age 59½ but are required to begin taking them at age 72 (73 if you reach age 72 after Dec. 31, 2022). Normally, these distributions are subject to income taxes, but an IRA Charitable Rollover allows individuals age 70½ and older to donate up to $100,000 to Cantate and other charitable organizations directly from their IRA, without treating the distribution as taxable income. To qualify, contributions must go directly to a public charity. Please contact your financial advisor to initiate a gift, and we recommend that you contact your tax advisor, as we cannot provide individual tax recommendations.

Thank You to Our Supporters

Cantate, a nonprofit corporation under §501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, is supported in part by funding from the Montgomery County government and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, the Maryland State Arts Council, and The Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts. Cantate also thanks all its tireless volunteers, singers, board members, publicity and outreach team, and concert box office and ushers.

We are grateful to all the individuals and institutions that have sustained Cantate for 40 years – and those who do so in the future!

For more information on how you can support Cantate, please contact Cara Schaefer, Executive Director, at exec@cantate.org.

Cantate extends its deep gratitude to those who have given in the past twelve months:

Underwriters ($5,000 and above)

Lawrence Deyton and Jeffrey Levi
Sarah and Bruce Gilchrist
Carol B. Goldberg and Robert H. Gerard
Bert Ifill ‡
Kent and Karen Mikkelsen
Lori Minasian and Doug Throckmorton ‡
Deborah Silberman
John Wiecking, in memory of Nancy Wiecking

Benefactors ($1,000 to $4,999)

Anonymous
Philip and Annette Anfinrud
Ellen L. Beard
Carolyn A. Chuhta
Sally and John Cox
Jean and Paul Dudek
Marilynn C. Flood
Elizabeth and Darren Gemoets
Anne Hall
Stacey Henning
Martha and Chris Hersman
Jim and Jean Hochron
William W. and Sara M. Josey
David A. Klaus
Melissa and Eliot Lieberman
Mary and Chris Mahle
Mary Monsma and Dennis Vander Tuig
Susan E. and James L. Murray
Leif Neve
Alison and David Ottenbreit
Elzbieta and George Vande Sande

Patrons ($500 to $999)

Sandra Daughton
Judith F. Davis ‡
Phyllis Fong
Bob and Carol Hall
Roma and Tom Hart
Tom Nessinger
Philip J. Padgett
Leila Rao and Jim McIntyre
Sallie Roberts
Lisa Rovin
Frederick Shoup
Cathlin Tully
Jonathan Willen

Donors ($250 to $499)

Marietta Balaan
Mary Barnstead
Lizbeth Francisco
Ronald and Camille Frezzo
Thad Garrett †
Aria Guarino and Luke Willadsen
Michael Karam
Elena King
Eleanor Lynch
Duncan and Chantal McHale
Gabriella Newes-Adeyi
Bill Newhouse
PayPal Giving Fund
Robin Perito
Tricia Smith and Dr. Fran Lussier
Benjamin and Emily Tsai

Contributors ($50 to $99)

Cahoon Solutions LLC
Richard Chitty
Helen Distefano
Pirie and Maria-Consuelo Gall
Richard Gilbert
Elizabeth Hopwood
Claire Kurs
Eileen McDonough
Rebecca Minier
Shoba Nayar
Mark Ohnmacht, in honor of John Wiecking
Elizabeth Rogers
Mimi Schultz
Sharon Zweig