If there isn't a written mission statement, policy, and procedures document, there should be, don't you think? Especially since we do solicit and receive donations from non-chorus members as well. We owe it to them--and ourselves--to be using the funds the way they were intended.

Pat B

----- Original Message -----
From: judithia2000
To: HSChorus@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 12:34 PM
Subject: [HSChorus] Re: Question re Chorus Endowment Funds

I would like to know the answer to that as well and... I would like to see a financial report on the financial history of the endowment presented to the chorus that includes the following information:

The total current balance of the Endowment fund
Earnings available for use this current year
Earnings available for use in prior years
How those earnings were used
What the proposed use is for this year
Who decides?

I should probably know this as well, but time goes by and sometimes recall gets garbled.

It is our fund and our money that we are encouraged to contribute each year and we do have a right to know these answers

Judy Hill

--- In hschorus@Xyahoogroups.com , "Suzanne Mitchell"
<smitchell1979@...> wrote:

Hello all. Hope you're enjoying your summer! I don't want to stir up any kind of hornet's nest, but I do have a question that I hope someone can answer. Re the statement in the most recent HSC Chronicles about the Chorus Endowment making possible the performance of the Mendelssohn St Paul.are there any kind of written guidelines about what the Endowment $$ can be used for? Is it completely up to the discretion of the conductor? Does the Chorus Council have any input into those kinds of decisions and, if so, is there a process for chorus members to give input to the Chorus Council prior to these discussions? I ask from the standpoint of someone who has contributed a decent amount of $$ every year to the endowment (and I suppose that due diligence would have suggested I should know the answers to the questions I have asked before donating $$, so I am sorry for my own lapse either in knowledge or memory! :-)).and although of course it's nice to sing another piece (and was nice to do the CD, which as I recall was also supported by the Endowment), I also think there might be other uses for that $$ that might benefit the chorus in different ways (eg some of the "Western Wind' ensemble kinds of training that Roger Cutler has talked about in the past.). Thanks for your help - - inquiring minds want to know! Cheers. suzanne

If there isn't a written mission statement, policy, and procedures document, there should be, don't you think?  Especially since we do solicit and receive donations from non-chorus members as well.  We owe it to them--and ourselves--to be using the funds the way they were intended.

 

Pat B

 

----- Original Message -----

From: judithia2000

To: HSChorus@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 12:34 PM

Subject: [HSChorus] Re: Question re Chorus Endowment Funds

I would like to know the answer to that as well and... I would like to
see a financial report on the financial history of the endowment
presented to the chorus that includes the following information:

The total current balance of the Endowment fund
Earnings available for use this current year
Earnings available for use in prior years
How those earnings were used
What the proposed use is for this year
Who decides?

I should probably know this as well, but time goes by and sometimes
recall gets garbled.

It is our fund and our money that we are encouraged to contribute each
year and we do have a right to know these answers

Judy Hill

--- In HSChorus@yahoogroups.com, "Suzanne Mitchell"
<smitchell1979@...> wrote:
>
> Hello all. Hope you're enjoying your summer! I don't want to stir up any
> kind of hornet's nest, but I do have a question that I hope someone can
> answer.
>
>
>
> Re the statement in the most recent HSC Chronicles about the Chorus
> Endowment making possible the performance of the Mendelssohn St Paul.are
> there any kind of written guidelines about what the Endowment $$ can
be used
> for? Is it completely up to the discretion of the conductor? Does
the Chorus
> Council have any input into those kinds of decisions and, if so, is
there a
> process for chorus members to give input to the Chorus Council prior to
> these discussions?
>
>
>
> I ask from the standpoint of someone who has contributed a decent
amount of
> $$ every year to the endowment (and I suppose that due diligence
would have
> suggested I should know the answers to the questions I have asked before
> donating $$, so I am sorry for my own lapse either in knowledge or
memory!
> :-)).and although of course it's nice to sing another piece (and was
nice to
> do the CD, which as I recall was also supported by the Endowment), I
also
> think there might be other uses for that $$ that might benefit the
chorus in
> different ways (eg some of the "Western Wind' ensemble kinds of training
> that Roger Cutler has talked about in the past.).
>
>
>
> Thanks for your help - - inquiring minds want to know!
>
>
>
> Cheers. suzanne
>

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