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Phoenix Conservatory of Music is the Recipient of Prestigious Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Grant
Phoenix, Arizona, July 31, 2008- The Phoenix Conservatory of Music (PCM) is thrilled to announce that we have been awarded a grant in the amount of $55,000.00 from the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust to fund a positioning and donor development project over the course of three years.
PCM has embarked on this project under the premise that a stronger infrastructure and a strong presence/brand will create community awareness and advocacy, drive programming, develop the board, and assist in fundraising. This will set PCM in a strategic position to encourage sustainability and success, giving a huge benefit to the children and families we serve.
Currently, PCM serves over 2,300 community members in the Greater Phoenix area in week to week facilitated programs. The majority of the community is comprised of children, many in urban schools where 99% of the population receive free and reduced lunch, where 91% are Hispanic, and 80+% are English Language Learners.
The PCM community is the direct beneficiary of this project. PCM will create a growing awareness of services offered, encourage increased donations, and diversify revenue streams, all of which will stabilize our infrastructure, resulting in better assistance to the community. Programs to the community will continue to develop and expand through creating more collaborations and community partnerships, employing and training more teaching artists, helping to revitalize the geographical communities served, and improving delivery systems. This will create a better and more fulfilling experience for those involved on all levels.
"Working with the Virginia Piper Charitable Trust has been an amazing experience. Their staff has really taken the time and energy to help us create a viable proposal and provide professional development for our staff and board. They support the organizations they fund in more ways than just writing a check. We feel we have been welcomed into their family with open arms...and it's a great place to be!"
-Regina Nixon, Executive Director, PCM.
Today's world is a very unsteady, fast-paced place. So much demand is being placed on families, children, and schools to fit more in, do more, be more and achieve more. Meanwhile, experiences that will enrich, nourish, teach and help achieve success are going away. At the Phoenix Conservatory of Music, we know that music is a way for us to grow, to learn, and to play together. Music can soothe the soul, lift us up, bring us closer, and teach us to work together. We experience creativity, process based thinking, and problem solving. We can use music as a tool to fulfill our potential, as a community, as educators, as families, and as people. The Phoenix Conservatory of Music exists to unleash the power of music in you.
The Phoenix Conservatory of Music would like to thank the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust for their generosity and acknowledgment of the importance of music education in the lives of the community. We also thank them for the opportunity to participate in excellent professional development sessions that will further their investment made to our community. |
