About…The Future

While the SVC remains a vital force for the presentation, growth, and teaching of choral art, we are currently committed to extending the quality and range of our performances and our visibility and relevance in our communities. We have moved aggressively to strengthen our current activities, reorganizing and expanding our Board of Directors, and we have begun to envision a wide variety of new ways in which the SVC can serve and expand our presence in the multi-county region of Central Pennsylvania. Among our highest-priority goals are the following:

• to strengthen our ability to bring outstanding choral music to more people and in a larger service area;
• to reduce our dependence upon revenue from ticket sales and subscriptions;
• to broaden our audience base, by attracting younger adults to our membership and audiences, and facilitating attendance by "senior citizens" at our concerts;
• to present, on occasion, additional benefit concerts for worthy causes;
• to help school systems and music teachers to increase the appreciation and performance of the musical arts;
• to establish prizes, scholarships and other means of recognizing and supporting promising school-age musicians in our service area;
• to attract community and business leaders to serve on SVC committees and the Board of Directors; and
• to create a contribution and donation funding specifically to support our conductor-director, choral sections, soloists, and orchestra chairs/sections.

Achieving these goals will require well-designed and executed strategies related to energetic marketing, fundraising and Board/committee development. All SVC members, especially those in leadership positions, will have to see themselves as ambassadors for the Chorale. Persons with the necessary talents, means and contacts who are already committed to our mission, and those who are potential supporters, will have to be convinced that valid opportunities for their support and recognition are available.

The SVC, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, has obtained funding from ticket subscriptions, contributions from individuals, businesses, trusts and foundations. Specifically, these sources include the Edna M. Sheary Trust, Charles B. Degenstein Foundation and the G. Scott and Bessie K. Guyer Foundation), and the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA), the regional arts funding partnership of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Significantly increased financial support must be forthcoming if we are to continue to offer residents of our communities, at very affordable prices, access to the quality concerts we seek to present and for which we are acclaimed. Without enhanced contributions, our commitment to—and opportunities for—presenting major works will be diminished, and our outreach efforts will suffer.

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