Resounding Campaign Profiles Brown Challenge Report Year2

BSO OrchKids
B rown C hallenge
Update from the Commitee Chair
Report
Volume 2
December 2017
We are excited to share the second annual Brown
Challenge Report. I am pleased to report that we met
our $100,000 goal for Year Two early and have already
begun raising funds for Year Three. To date, we have
raised $205,785 to support the OrchKids program which
is using the power of music to help transform the lives of
Baltimore City’s most underserved students. This progress
is entirely due to you and our community of supporters –
you have stepped up to the Challenge and we
THANK YOU!
Stuart Simms
Brown Challenge Committee Chair
A brief recap of the Challenge: In early 2016, the Eddie
C. and C. Sylvia Brown Family Foundation awarded a
generous 5-year, $500,000 challenge grant to the OrchKids program at the Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra (BSO). The terms of the grant stipulate that the BSO and OrchKids must raise $100,000
annually through December 2020 from the African-American community; with the goal to raise
$1,000,000 in total at the conclusion of the pledge period.
Here are some highlights from Year Two:

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Met $100,000 goal 3 months ahead of schedule!

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44 New Donors (23 donors in Year One) – a 91% increase !

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9 Renewal gifts
Year Three statistics

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$5,785 raised to date
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$94,215 remaining to be raised before 12/31/18

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1 Renewal gift!
We want to expand our Brown Challenge community even more. Our goal for Year
Three will be to grow our donor base by 100%. I know we can do this, but not without
your participation. If each of you brings in just one new friend, we will meet this goal!
I would encourage you to invite someone to an OrchKids performance or bring them
for a tour of the program so they may see, first-hand, the impact of this
transformative program.
Sincerely,
Stuart Simms
Brown Challenge C ommittee C hair