We could really
use your help!
Keep the Information Flowing
Please tell us about events that are happening in and
around your region, especially if they contribute to the strengthening of networks
of community music making activists. For
example, we’d love to hear about song swaps,
leaders' gathering days, big sings (etc.) which have been organised
in your region - the more comprehensive our picture of what's going on across
the state, the more effective we can be in advocating for our movement.
Plus, we can publicise your group or event to
hundreds of community music making enthusiasts via our newsletters!
Community
Music Victoria Inc. needs $$$
At the moment, we receive around 80% of our income from
State and Federal Government agencies.
Virtually all of these funds are used to support the huge
range of specific programs we operate. This enables us to keep
fee prices for attendees way below the actual program
cost.
What’s difficult to support with the government funding we receive (to the level
that's required anyway) are the day-to-day boring bits. You know, answering the phone, paying the
rent and the auditor, maintaining the website and the database, producing the newsletters
and the email bulletins…
To be able to keep doing this stuff and maintain an office which has the resources that can keep up the
slog of finding, applying for and acquitting government funding, we need more
money than we currently have.
Here are some ways you could help:
Make a tax
deductible donation
To secure deductibility you'll need to fill in this form, but
did you know you can also deposit funds directly into the CMV bank account?
CMV BSB: 063-123
CMV
Account Number: 10128694
You'll
still need to complete this tax deduction
form, email
it us, and we’ll send you the tax deduction certificate.
Become a paid-up financial member of CMV
If you've been benefiting from CMV stuff, now is the time to say thanks and join
up. It only costs $25 a year ($15
concession) or $35 for your group, and that's way less than a dollar a
week. We're considering the idea of
arranging CMV member discounts to things, and membership already guarantees you
a bi-monthly newsletter -
Shout!. If you’d
like to become a CMV member (and contribute toward our financial well-being),
please fill in this form.
You can also secure your membership via a direct
bank-to-bank funds transfer.
CMV BSB: 063-123
CMV
Account Number: 10128694
After
you've completed the funds transfer, simply complete this
form and mail, fax or email it back to us. Be sure to include your full
name, your group's name (if applicable), and the type of membership you're
purchasing, OR
Throw a rent
party or CMV benefit gig
Your group might like to think about mounting a special
fund-raising gig on our behalf - maybe a wintersong event
with mulled wine and hot buttered rum? Or a house-concert with a slap-up supper? Or maybe a family singing
afternoon? “Bring the kids
and your granny, and sing away the winter blues with us!” (And include a chook raffle. Maybe.) Or maybe something exotic
and classy? Ooh-la-la! Whatever flavour your fund-raiser takes, we’re
sure it’ll be fun (and we’ll
be extremely appreciative of your efforts)!
Donate a skill
Most of our constituency have marketable
skills other than their capacity to make and / or lead musical groups (eg, photography, web design, individual instrumental
teaching / making, landscape gardening, etc.).
Maybe you could offer to do a fully paid-for, one-off job and give us
the fee! (Or portion thereof.) This spreads the well-being around - you feel
righteous giving us the fee and the person paying you feels righteous 'cause they
know where their money's going (and that it’s
for a good cause)! Alternatively, you
could offer to do a one-off job at minimum cost and we could dutch auction it!
Dob in a donor
If you have a cashed-up friend or relative with an
interest in group singing, maybe you could suggest they make a donation?
Invent your own
way of supporting our existence
One thing we're sure of is that our constituency is
possessed of powerful imaginations. Usually
they’re applied to the process of music-making,
but we're hoping that, for just a moment, these amazing imaginations can be
turned to the act of raising money.
And now it's over to you.
Please feel free to email us with massive promises and / or creative fund-raising suggestions, but please
be mindful that right now, we’re “all hands
on deck” just trying to keep the CMV engines running, and so we’d like to try to keep responses to this request
within the bounds of reality. We’d also appreciate it if you could please keep in
mind the fact that CMV’s goal is to encourage and foster the development
and participation in group singing, so don’t be
suggesting a massive investment of time and resources requiring a commitment
from us which is guaranteed to transform CMV into a major commercial earner, ya hear? (That’d be bad).
Seriously though, we would be ridiculously appreciative
of any contributions you or your group can make, and remain enthusiastically
hopeful our network of group music-makers will find it in their pockets to “give
it up” for CMV…
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