#Giving Tuesday

We invite you to join us on #GivingTuesday, November 27, by making a tax-deductible contribution to the American Guild of Organists. Your gift can be directed toward supporting your local chapter or any one of our national funds.

The AGO Annual Fund supports educational programs nationwide ranging from opportunities for beginning organists to our professional certification program.

The AGO Endowment Fund is our fund for the future that provides annual operating support through earnings from our investments.

The New Organist Fund provides scholarships and support for Pipe Organ Encounters for students of all ages.

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In the weeks ahead, concert halls and houses of worship will be filled with the music of the King of Instruments, more so than during any other time of the year. Please join us in promoting the organ and those who play it by making a contribution in any amount.

You can designate your tax-deductible gift in honor of a loved one, a colleague, a student, or a teacher. Give online at agohq.org or by giving us a call at 212-870-2310. If you have already made a gift to the AGO this year, please accept our deepest thanks.

On behalf of the AGO National Council and Headquarters staff, we send best wishes for a blessed holiday season.

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Sincerely yours

Michael Bedford, AAGO, ChM
President

 

 

James E. Thomashower
Executive Director

P.S. If you are unable to make a gift at this time, please consider making a planned gift to the AGO through your estate plans. By doing so, you will be honoring your interests in our profession and recognized in perpetuity as a member of the Clarence Dickinson Society

#GivingTuesday, November 28, is a national day of philanthropy. To celebrate the occasion, we ask that you consider making a gift to the AGO Annual Fund. Our ambitious goal is to raise $24,000 in 24 hours. We are both making a commitment to contribute to the Guild on Giving Tuesday, and we encourage you to do so as well.

The Guild is poised for great things in 2018.

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At our National Convention in Kansas City, Mo., July 2-6, we will roll out a completely new, three-year strategic plan that is designed to provide greater support to our chapters and members than ever before.

But first, we will start the year by helping to fund January Jubilees in Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and Ohio.

In the spring we will honor John Ferguson with a Gala in Minnesota.

Then in June and July we will provide financial support to six chapters hosting Pipe Organ Encounters in six different states (Arizona, Illinois, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, California, and Florida) and to the many dozens of students attending them.

All year long we will provide funding to aid the studies of a half-dozen Pogorzelski-Yankee scholars at the undergraduate and graduate levels; strengthen our five-tier certification program; and publish hundreds of pages of information about organs and organists in The American Organist, the world’s leading publication for our profession.

Please know that a gift of any amount will be greatly appreciated.

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You can designate your tax-deductible gift in honor of a loved one, a colleague, a student, or a teacher. You can make your gift online at www.agohq.org or you can call us at 212-870-2310, during business hours from 9-5 Eastern time. If you have already made a gift to the AGO this year, please accept our deepest thanks.

In the weeks ahead, concert halls and houses of worship will be filled with the music of the King of Instruments, more so than during any other time of the year. Through our collective efforts, we will be accomplishing the mission of the Guild to foster a thriving community of musicians who share their knowledge and inspire passion for the organ.

Thank you for all that you do for the Guild, for your thoughtfulness and generosity. Your gift to the Annual Fund will make a positive impact by helping our members, by strengthening our chapters, and by supporting our national organization.

On behalf of the AGO National Council and Headquarters staff, we send best wishes for a blessed holiday season.

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Sincerely yours,

Michael Bedford, AAGO, ChM
President

James E. Thomashower
Executive Director