The Tulsa Symphony Orchestra
A Community Service Organization

Ways to Give

“To have great poets,” Walt Whitman once wrote, “there must be great audiences.”

The same holds true for having a great symphony — and this is where you come in.

The Tulsa Symphony Orchestra will strengthen, improve, and enrich our community in ways both immediate and long-term, but we need your help to do so.

Join us as we set forth to fortify and enliven the Tulsa community as only a great orchestra can!

TSO is a charitable organization under the provisions of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Donations, bequests and transfers are deductible for federal income, estate, and gift tax purposes

Please consider making a donation at one of the following levels:

A. Support the General Operations Fund
Giving to this fund helps cover the day-to-day operations of the TSO. This is the most basic way to give.

B. Give to the Endowment Fund
Endowment gifts are prized not just as presentations of significant capital but as expressions of lasting commitment to what the TSO is, and what we stand for: to our mission and our values as a performing-arts collective. Endowments help to form the foundation on which an organization like the TSO must be built. Endowments foster money-in-the-bank presence, economic soundness, and institutional might.

C. Concert Series Sponsor
Corporations, companies, firms, and individuals are welcome to sponsor a complete series of concerts.

Such sponsors will be:
• Allotted full and visible publicity in all advertising coming from the TSO for the 2006-2007 season, including mailings, TV, the Web, posters, brochures, and more.
• Asked to assist with the selection of Guest Artists.
• Given 10 (ten) Orchestra seats plus an additional 200 general admission seats per subscription concert (for their employees/guests).
• Invited to a special pre-concert champagne reception for each subscription concert.
• Granted a special TSO ensemble performance to occur at your home or business.

D. Sponsor a Single Concert:
Big Pops or Big Classics
Sponsors of a single concert will receive:
• Full publicity for the concert sponsored.
• Eight (8) Orchestra Seats for the sponsored concert event.

E. Chamber Series Sponsor:
Special Smaller Orchestral and Jazz Series
Sponsors of a chamber series will help bring the TSO into different parts of the community. For example:
• “Classic” Swing Series, with host Donald Ryan.
• Sacred Sundays, featuring Choirs and/or Soloists from various religious organizations in Northeastern Oklahoma. Concerts to be given at different venues.

F. Education: Orchestral Interaction
Sponsors of these concerts will help deliver the TSO directly to the schools; the music — and the inspiration — will reach students of all ages throughout our region.
• The TSO will prepare all educators in advance.
• The TSO will adhere to the National Standards for Arts Education.

G. Education: Meet the Orchestra
Sponsors of these concerts will assist in the TSO’s goal of teaching students the different families, sounds, and configurations of the orchestra.
• We will primarily aim at the pre-K, elementary and middle school populations.
• These concerts will focus on telling students about the instruments — and the music made by such instruments.
• Our musicians are trained to create innovative, accessible, and highly interactive programs.
• It is the TSO’s goal to develop a direct, open, and long-term relationship with future audiences.

H. Community Service
The TSO is a community service organization; put simply, all that this orchestra performs, presents, and plans for is geared toward making this community a better place in which to live, work, and grow. Sponsors who give to our Community Service fund will thereby be lending support to our efforts to play at retirement communities, recreation centers, free-to-the-public venues, and so forth.

I. Legacy Giving
The Tulsa Symphony Orchestra welcomes private gifts made in tribute to, or in memory of, a special friend or family member. Such a donation is always a fine and charitable way to honor or remember a particular music lover or arts patron.

J. Sponsoring a Chair or Section
Donating funds to finance a chair or section of the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra ensures the sponsor of attaching his or her name to that chair or section. Thus it also ensures widespread notice, eye-catching prestige, and philanthropic distinction.