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CAMA ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGN Bringing the World of Music to Santa Barbara
The CAMA Endowment Campaign recognizes CAMA's legacy of bringing the finest music in the world to the Santa Barbara community, with joyful anticipation of even more rewarding years of great music to come!
In this Endowment Campaign, the friends of CAMA are raising $6.7 million to build a solid financial endowment supporting CAMA and its ongoing programs.
"In my years as Music Director with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, some of my favorite concerts outside of Los Angeles are the ones we have given in Santa Barbara with the Community Arts Music Association."
– Esa-Pekka Salonen, Honorary Chair, CAMA Artists Honorary Committee
Letter from the Campaign Chairs
Dear Friends,
For more than 90 years Community Arts Music Association (CAMA) has immeasurably enriched our community by presenting the finest orchestras, conductors and soloists to Santa Barbara.
But gone are the days when an organization like CAMA could survive from season to season solely on ticket sales and annual contributions. In today's world, endowment reserves are required to meet steadily rising production costs, artist fees and funds to sustain CAMA's outstanding education programs.
Please join us in helping to ensure the legacy of world-class music here in Santa Barbara for generations to come. We urge you to contribute to the CAMA Endowment Campaign and thank you, in advance, for your generosity.
For more than 90 years Community Arts Music Association has brought virtually every world-renowned orchestra, conductor and soloist to perform in Santa Barbara.
There can be no other community of Santa Barbara's size that offers such quality and range of performers on its stages. CAMA's annual seasons of superb music have become an indelible part of our community's cultural life.
The past roster of performers is a "Who's Who" of the classical music world, with dazzling local appearances by musical legends such as Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Rubinstein, Cliburn, Bernstein, Casals, Ormandy, Szell and von Karajan.
Thanks to CAMA, the superstars of today continue to appear on our local stages, as do the greatest orchestras from around the globe.
The musical legacy we have been given by past generations is immense. But CAMA is not resting on its laurels. The financial cost of bringing these great performers to our community continues to grow. The "gap" between ticket income and performance expenses continues to widen. Artist fees alone have nearly quadrupled in the past 20 years.
With the community's help, CAMA is fully committed to protecting this legacy for our children and future generations. The CAMA Endowment Campaign is a major part of that commitment.
"Community Arts Music Association's record of bringing the great orchestras and artists of the world to Santa Barbara...is a remarkable accomplishment."
– Pinchas Zukerman
The $6.7 million CAMA Endowment Campaign ensures that great music and world-class artists continue to grace Santa Barbara's stages for decades to come, and guarantees that children and adults alike will benefit from music education programs.
Continuing to attract artistic talent of the highest caliber will be a major benefit of the Endowment.
• The steadily rising expense of bringing celebrated orchestras and artists to Santa Barbara far exceeds ticket sales revenue. A stable and reliable source of supplementary income from the Endowment will help solve this problem and will allow CAMA to continue presenting great performances and renowned artists.
• The Endowment will allow CAMA patrons to create a meaningful legacy in their name, or in honor or memory of a loved one, that perpetuates their appreciation of CAMA's mission.
Education programs, so vital to the cultural development of our youth, will receive guaranteed support.
• CAMA's highly successful education programs for college and high school students will now be braced with a stable source of assured funding from an endowment to insulate them against perilous economic cycles.
• Income from the Endowment will also allow CAMA to provide new educational and outreach programs for a wider audience.
"We are enormously grateful to CAMA and to the donors {who} give our students the chance to hear world-class musicians and music, and it has inspired us to think of new ways in which we can involve students in the arts."
– Dr. David Marshall, Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts, UCSB
CAMA's Music Matters: Elementary School Outreach and Docent Program
CAMA developed an in-classroom music appreciation program for grades 4 through 6, adaptable for use in Junior High, which is now conducted in more than a dozen Santa Barbara County schools. The docent-led curriculum focuses on musical styles, history and diversity.
Junior, Middle & High School Concert Ticket Program
For well over a decade tickets have been distributed annually to junior high and high school students, and young student musicians. This valuable program often provides students with their first live concert experience.
CAMA's College and University Program
CAMA's Youth Audience Development program is a collaboration with UCSB, Westmont College, Allan Hancock College and Santa Barbara City College. Their students receive tickets to selected CAMA concerts to introduce and expose them to great music. Some schools award academic credit for participation in the program.
Adult Education
In partnership with Santa Barbara City College's Continuing Education program, CAMA offers pre-concert lectures and discounted tickets to selected concerts as part of a special music course. CAMA subscribers may also attend these lectures.
CAMA Website and Program Notes
Comprehensive program notes are mailed to subscribers in advance of each concert and may also be accessed on this website.
"CAMA exposes young people to a world of music, right here at home. Their ticket programs allow children of all ages to personally experience great artistry and our musical heritage. These programs must continue in order to build the classical music audiences of the future."
– Stephen & Carla Hahn, Endowment Campaign Honorary Chairs
To assist donors to make the most of their giving, the Endowment Committee offers all of the modern tax-wise ways of giving.
• Gifts of Cash and Pledges
• Gifts of Appreciated Real Estate, Stocks and Bonds These gifts offer potential tax savings.
• Planned Gifts, including Charitable Remainder Unitrusts, Annuity Trusts, and Charitable Gift Annuities These tax-saving devices return income for life to the donors while helping build CAMA's Endowment. Gift annuities are offered in collaboration with the Santa Barbara Foundation.
• Gifts of Personal Property, Life Insurance, Collections, and Bequests
• Named and Memorial Gifts These gifts can honor the donor, another living person, or establish a memorial in honor of someone else. Available are naming rights for concerts as well as for the student scholarships in the Youth Audience Development program in its entirety or for a selected number of students. Undesignated named funds are also offered.
For further information or to make a gift, please contact:
CAMA
2060 Alameda Padre Serra, Suite 201
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Tel (805) 966-4324
Fax (805) 962-2014
Email <info@camasb.org>
Or click below to donate via PayPal™
Community Arts Music Association, Inc. (CAMA) is a public charity, a non-profit California corporation, and all contributions are deductible for tax purposes to the fullest extent of the law.
"Our community is so filled with culture, thanks in great part to CAMA's efforts. ... What other community of our size enjoys such artistic riches? Help us guarantee that CAMA continues to thrive."
– Robert M. Light, Endowment Campaign Honorary Chair
Providing 5 student scholarships annually (many named funds)
$25,000
Providing 1 student scholarship annually (many named funds)
$5,000
Sponsor CAMA Classroom Music Education programs (many named funds)
$100,000
Undesignated Endowments
If the donor wishes, CAMA is happy to name an Endowment gift of $25,000 or more within CAMA's Endowment Fund. The individual named funds will be invested jointly, but the proportional income amount will be contributed to the work of CAMA each year in the donors' names or according to their wishes. Thus, the gift and recognition will be perpetual.
*Gold and silver sponsorships are available for completed gifts.
We invite your consideration of a named gift or memorial fund.
If there is an area of CAMA's work in which you have a particular interest but is not listed here, please inquire. We would be happy to talk with you about meeting your charitable objectives through a named gift or memorial for the CAMA Endowment.
If we can provide you with any additional information about CAMA or about named gifts to the CAMA Endowment Fund, please contact us.
"Ticket sales alone don't cover the costs of bringing world-class artists to Santa Barbara. This gap between revenues and production costs is ever widening. That's why CAMA's Endowment Campaign is so important – it will be a 'stop gap,' so to speak. Bravo to CAMA for the terrific performances over the years."
– Edward & Sue Birch, Endowment Campaign Honorary Chairs
Just as Mozart's musical genius has enchanted audiences for generations, CAMA's enduring commitment to present world-class music performances has thrilled generations of Santa Barbarans for over nine decades.
Membership in the Mozart Society is reserved for CAMA patrons who pledge an Endowment gift of $10,000 or more. Perpetuate your personal interests by creating a named endowment, pay tribute to an esteemed individual, or create a meaningful legacy in memory of a loved one...and have the personal satisfaction of ensuring that CAMA continues to bring the world's finest artists to Santa Barbara.
Benefits of Belonging
Benefits include lifetime Mozart Society membership with invitations to the exclusive, annual Mozart Society Dinner, plus listing in CAMA concert program magazines. You'll also receive a personal memento expressing CAMA's appreciation.
Membership Levels
Conductor's Circle
$500,000 or more
Crescendo Circle
$250,000 – $499,999
Cadenza Patrons
$100,000 – $249,999
Rondo Patrons
$50,000 – $99,999
Concerto Patrons
$25,000 – $49,999
Sonata Patrons
$10,000 – $24,999
"We love the variety, from individual soloists to full orchestras, both in intimate recitals and in large concerts. We don't have to leave home to see these great world-class artists – they are right here, thanks to CAMA. The Endowment ensures that CAMA can continue for another ninety years and more."
– Robert & Christine Emmons, Endowment Campaign Honorary Chairs
Edward and Sue Birch
Robert and Christine Emmons
Stephen and Carla Hahn
Robert M. Light
ARTISTS HONORARY COMMITTEE
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Chair
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Marilyn Horne
Jerome Lowenthal
Sir Neville Marriner
Jessye Norman
Pepe Romero
Leonard Slatkin
Pinchas Zukerman
CAMA ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGN CABINET
James H. Hurley, Jr., Chair
Judith L. Hopkinson, Vice-Chair
Finance/Treasurers
John Lundegard
Michael Salsbury
Leadership Gifts
Judith L. Hopkinson
Shirley Ann Hurley
Herbert J. Kendall
Major Gifts
Patricia Kaplan
Judith F. Smith
Marion Stewart
Community Gifts
Deborah Bertling
Roger Phillips
Board & Committee Gifts
Deborah Bertling
Julia Dawson
Planned Gifts
Ian Fisher
Gerald Liponi
Prospect Research
Jayne Menkemeller
Judith F. Smith
Public Relations
Julia McHugh
Roger Phillips
Donor Cultivation
Bridget Colleary
Raye Haskell
Public Kick-Off
Carla Hahn
T.J. Locker
Jayne Menkemeller
Mark E. Trueblood, Executive Director
Martha Donelan, Director of Development
"It would be hard to overestimate the achievements and importance of CAMA. The devotion and commitment of its members should be an example of how much one can do to enrich the cultural life of a community."
– Vladimir Ashkenazy
We welcome your consideration of a gift to the CAMA Endowment Campaign.
"Santa Barbara is a very special place, but when it comes to classical music performance, it is virtually in a class by itself, thanks to the efforts of the Community Arts Music Association." – Santa Barbara News-Press Editorial
"Rubinstein, Stravinsky, von Karajan, Bernstein – the Community Arts Music Association has brought the cream of the orchestral crop to Santa Barbara." – Santa Barbara Magazine
CAMA Endowment Campaign 2060 Alameda Padre Serra, Suite 201
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Phone (805) 966-4324
Fax (805) 962-2014 info@camasb.org
Community Arts Music Association, Inc. is a California nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation. All contributions are deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Federal tax identification number: 95-1816010.
Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara, Inc. 2060 Alameda Padre Serra, Suite 201 Santa Barbara, CA 93103
This project is funded in part by the Organizational Development Grant Program using funds provided by the City of Santa Barbara in partnership with the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission.
