Help Keep Our Kids Singing!
Now more than ever, we rely on your gifts and sponsorships to fund classes, workshops, festivals and performances! Ticket sales and choir tuitions historically cover just 42% of our annual budget. The rest depends on your help—to produce programs, keep ticket prices family-friendly, buy music, and offer scholarships.
The Craig Bond Legacy Fund
Mr Bond’s ongoing leadership has built something extraordinary in St Helena, and we celebrate him by dedicating our annual fund drive to ensuring that the programs and the musical seeds he has so tirelessly cultivated will continue for many more harvests of harmony and inspiration.
If you - or your business or foundation - would consider a directed donation to the Craig Bond Legacy Fund, or possibly sponsoring something close to your heart, please don't hesitate to call Craig Bond at 707-963-7712.
You may give securely online or mail an old-fashioned check! Our Tax ID is 26-0526007.
Our 2022-23 Annual Fund Plea
Dear Choral Society friends and family,
We are writing you today with our Annual Appeal for your continued support. Your loyalty – and
donations – are so appreciated. Your help has been absolutely essential to keeping our choirs singing!
Thanks to your gifts, our small nonprofit has continued its work during the long months of
restrictions – and without having to drastically cut program outreach. At the heart of those successes? The dedicated work of our founder-creative director, Craig Bond, and assistant director, Melissa Bond.
These two kept the SHCS on mission to sing and learn together. The kids of the Children’s Chorus
and Teen Choir were intrepid, practicing and performing, outdoors and in, as conditions allowed.
This continuity of fun musical education during such disruption of “normal” meant the world to these kids, many of whom reach graduation enriched by 10 years of choral work with the Bonds.
In more good news…in April, all four of our St Helena choirs (Childrens, Teen, Chamber Singers,
and Jazz@7) were able to meet together, and brought a long-awaited and successful joint concert to the stage of our beautiful home venue, the St Helena Performing Arts Center.
We also return LIVE with the Chamber Singers’ annual Christmas program – a St Helena tradition
since 1979! The Dec. 17-18 concerts feature Pergolesi’s Magnificat, a professional chamber orchestra, our Honor Youth Choir, and, of course, selections from Handel’s Messiah.
Each fall since our 2007 founding as a nonprofit, we have asked for your support – and you have
always responded with great generosity. In normal days, almost HALF of the St. Helena Choral Society’s annual budget is funded by student tuition and performance ticket sales. But with that income severely reduced in 2020 and 2021, and just beginning to trickle in for 2022, we’re again relying keenly on your gifts to keep the harmony, teamwork, and inspiration growing.
Will you please continue to help St. Helena choral music and education thrive? You may give
securely online www.StHelenaChoral.org.
If you'd prefer to mail a check, please write to:
St Helena Choral Society, P.O. Box 164, St Helena, CA 94574
If you'd like speak to us about a specific use for your gift, matching gifts at your organization, please don't hesitate to contact Craig Bond directly. 707-963-7712.
With sincere thanks,
Bill Phelps
President, St Helena Choral Society
Our NPO Tax ID is 26-0526007