Keep the Dream Alive

This past Spring, the Board of Directors honed our Purpose, Mission, and Vision, which appear in full on our homepage. Simply put: WMPA’s Purpose is to unite and uplift our community through the transformative power of classical music. This is a lofty dream indeed.

We all enjoy the music opportunities offered by WMPA.  Whether you enjoy the Philharmonic performing full force symphonies and/or more rare and intriguing pieces in large concert venues, and/or our more intimate chamber music series at the Lyceum, WMPA offers an amazing array of talented performers.  Most of you also know the WMPA supports two Youth Orchestras, whose leaders instill an enthusiasm and love of music in their young ensembles. 
 
We achieve our goals with YOUR help.  We raised over $50,000  with the End-of-Year Campaign!  We had dreamed of $100,000 and met half that, albeit still the most ever in our history.
 
For many non-profits, once one fundraising campaign ends, another starts. Spring2ACTion is coming on April 22, so you have another chance to “tune up your checkbooks.”

It takes more than Money

The point of this missive isn’t asking for funds: It’s asking for you to consider Other Ways to Support WMPA in addition to donations and attending performances.  Of course, it’s lovely to attend concerts…but there is so much that goes into making a concert happen. 
 
As a means to reducing costs, WMPA relies heavily on volunteers to help run the organization and bring concerts to the community.  Many tasks can be parsed out, and we all know that putting a couple heads together on a task allows duties (and thus time) to be split. ​

As a small organization, people wear many proverbial hats…and we are always looking for more people to help sport these hats.  Additionally, it seems the ‘hats’ have a way of changing style…do we keep the old as well as add the new…decisions need to be made.
 
WMPA has many needs for community “Outreach”, for example: are our free online ads doing the trick?
 
For “Communications”, our eblasts don’t write themselves. Also, are we targeting the correct recipients? 
 
We have a very capable bookkeeper and accounting team which have helped the Treasurer immensely, but reconciliation nevertheless takes time.  
 
Are we getting the most out of the online platforms we have for emails, ticketing, and documents or calendar management, for example?  Are there other platforms we should use to track activities?
 
The above offers a sampling of activities YOU might have the time and expertise to assist with, or perhaps you know someone who’s been toying with the idea of helping a community organization.  Contact us!
 
Perhaps you might consider joining the concert-day volunteers, to sign-up for helping set-up the Will Call table or overseeing AfterChats with Anna.  For the Youth Orchestras, perhaps you could help set-up or greet attendees at concerts… or arrange a parent/student pizza party after a rehearsal. Your time would help spread the workload!

Coming soon

The Board will be generating a “Pick Your Level” of possible interest and involvement for volunteering with WMPA.  Those few hours a month you might donate can be “instrumental” in making a season a success!
 
Stay tuned for some of our powers of persuasion to consider volunteering (yourself, or your spouse or another friend) to help WMPA continue to bring music to the northern Virginia/DC metropolitan area!

WMPA relies on you for financial support.  Thank you.  You are more than welcome to visit our Make a Gift webpage.