$1.9 Million Rasied For Match!

Dear Symphony Friends,

The Miller Match works! Eight short months after the $6 million challenge grant from the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation was announced, more than 3,000 donors contributed an astounding $1.9 million in new or increased gifts to the Oregon Symphony. Those gifts were matched, dollar for dollar, by the Miller Foundation. We now embark on year two of our three-year campaign to ensure sufficient funding to realize our vision for our great orchestra.

This season, the Miller Match will once again match up to $2 million in new or increased contributions to the Symphony. As the 3,000 donors from last season will attest, the opportunity to have their gifts doubled by the Miller Match is an incredible incentive.

We know that the capacity exists in the community to achieve another $2 million in new gifts this season. But the challenge is to inspire an ever-widening circle of new donors to participate in the Miller Match. We need you!

You now know that the price of a ticket covers only 41% of our costs. That is why I am asking you to help us make up the remaining 59% by participating in the Miller Match.

My dream for the Oregon Symphony is to touch the heart and soul of every Oregonian. We are well on our way to achieving that goal. Last season we presented more than 110 concerts in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall and another 350 education and community engagement activities across the state. We annually attract more than 320,000 people to our concerts and serve another 70,000 children and adults through our extensive education and community programs. And, through our expanding regional radio partnerships, tens of thousands of rural Oregonians are hearing our concerts every month.

Your gift today will help preserve Oregon’s great cultural resource for tomorrow. Please help us meet the challenge by sending the most generous contribution possible, which will be doubled by the Miller Match. These are exciting times for the Oregon Symphony and it is an honor to be a part of it!

If you would like more information or prefer to make your gift by phone, please call us at 503-228-4294 or visit www.orsymphony.org.

Sincerely,

Carlos Kalmar
Music Director