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Amp Up Your Appeal Letter Revenue: Crafting Powerful, Strategic Requests

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Generate way more money from your fundraising appeals by discovering what research reveals about your supporters. Whether you’re writing a direct mail letter, an email, a sponsorship request, or a...

Mind the (Generation) Gap

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With four different generations living in the United States, choruses—like all organizations —must change the way we foster leadership from within and reach new audiences and singers. This session...
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What Is "Shape-Note" Singing?

Do you remember how it felt to belt out songs with other kids at camp, at a scout meeting, or simply when driving your parents crazy on long trips in the car? No one back then told us how to blend our...
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Mitch Menchaca

Mitch Menchaca is the chief operating officer for Chorus America. He came to Chorus America from Americans for the Arts as the director of local arts advancement, where he lead the department that...

Composers in the Mist: Choral Composition in the Pacific Northwest

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Attend this session to discover the influence of the Pacific Northwest on its choral composers and how regional conductors and composers have used creative collaborations to engage audiences through...

The Art of Strategic Alliances

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When do partnerships add value and when do they distract from a chorus’s mission? Philadelphia’s Mendelssohn Club explored this question for their own organization through an intensive consulting...

Introducing Innovation for Positive Disruption

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This workshop will introduce innovation as a powerful tool for positive disruption and breakthrough change in any organization. Using the Competing Values Framework, the presenters will explore the...

Unlocking the Mystery to Getting Grants

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Are you prepared to meet annual grant deadlines without re-submitting the same materials from the previous year? Are you poised to submit competitive grant applications when sudden opportunities arise...

The Threshold Choir: Singing to Heal Yourself and the World

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When we welcome sorrow within the context of song, holding loss as close to our hearts as we do joy, then we take steps towards healing and belonging. The gentle and heartfelt songs of the Threshold...

Technology Trends: What's new, What's important

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Technology moves fast. It's hard to keep up with all the shiny new apps, devices, social networks and overall technology trends--and still do all the things you need to in order to market your chorus...