Corporate & Foundation Giving

Pacific Chorale offers several avenues for corporate and foundation giving that allow flexibility for businesses and open the opportunities for support at many levels. The following programs illustrate these diverse giving options.

Corporate and Foundation Support
Provides the vehicle for Pacific Chorale to bring choral music to the community.

Corporate Matching Gifts
Match, double or triple your personal donation through your company's corporate matching program.

In-Kind Gifts
Contribute services or products that help us deliver excellent artistic value to our community.

Corporate and Foundation Support

Corporate and Foundation support is an essential component of our annual fund. Grants from corporations and foundations provide the vehicle for Pacific Chorale to bring choral music to the community through performances and outreach programs. Each year, Pacific Chorale reaches over 50,000 individuals through these activities.

Corporate and Foundation support can be specifically designated toward the following categories:

General operating support
Specific concerts or concert series
Commissioning of new works
Education programs, including:
- Passage to the Arts
- Intro to the Arts
- Concert previews and lecture series
- Educational "Meet the Composer" projects

Pacific Chorale would like to thank the following businesses, corporations and foundations for their generous support within the last eighteen months. Your commitment continues to make a tremendous difference!

Albertsons Inc.
Aldrich & Bonnefin
Arts Orange County
BP Foundation
The Capital Group Companies, Inc.
C.J. Segerstrom & Sons
CommerceWest Bank
Disneyland Cast Community Fund
The E. Nakamichi Foundation
Employees Community Fund of Boeing, CA
The First American Corporation
The First American Trust Co.
Ingram Micro
KOCE
Latham & Watkins LLP
Lon V. Smith Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
Northrup Grumman
Orange County Performing Artscenter
Pacific Life Foundation
Plaza Bank
The R.C. Baker Foundation
Reader's Digest Foundation
Rockwell Collins
Salt-Away Products, Inc.
Southern California Edison
Tenet Healthcare Foundation
Union Pacific
The Valuation & Information Group
Wells Fargo

For more information regarding corporate and foundation support, please contact Alina Mircea-Trotz at 714-662-2345 or alina@pacificchorale.org.

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Corporate Matching Gifts

Did you know that your personal gift to Pacific Chorale may be doubled or even tripled? Many companies participate in matching gift programs and quarterly, bi-annually and/or annually match their employees' donations to community nonprofits. For purposes of recognition, Pacific Chorale is pleased to credit matching gifts along with an individual's personal gift. Please contact Alina Mircea-Trotz at 714-662-2345 or alina@pacificchorale.org with any questions about this program.

For your reference, the following is a listing of local companies that have implemented such a program:

ADC Foundation
Albertson's Inc.
American Express
Honda Motor Co.
Anheiser-Busch Companies
ARCO Foundation
Associates First Capital
AT&T Foundation
Atlantic Richfield Foundation
AXA Financial, Inc.
Bank of America
Beckman Coulter Inc
Best Products Foundation
BF Goodrich Co.
Black & Decker Corp.
Boeing Company
BP Amoco Corporation
Brunswick Corp.
CAN Foundation
The Candle Foundation
The Capital Group Companies
Centris Group
Champion International Corp
Chevron Corporation
Cigna Foundation
Circuit City
Citgo Petroleum Corp.
Citicorp Foundation
Coca-Cola Company
Continental Insurance
Corning, Inc.
Deluxe Check Printers, Inc.
DFS North America
Digital Equipment
Dow Corning Corporation
Edison International
Embassy Suites, Inc.
Entergy Corporation
Equitable Foundation
Equiva Services LLC
Ericsson Business Comm.
Exxon
Fannie Mae Foundation
Fieldstone Foundation
Fireman's Fund Foundation
Focal Communications
Frankel & Company
Gateway Foundation
General Motors Corp.
Georgia-Pacific
Gillette Company
Hallmark Cards Inc.
Home Depot Inc.
Home Savings of America
Honda Motor Co., Inc.
Hughes Electronics
IBM International
Illinois Tool Works
Irvine Company
J.C Penney Co.
Kawasaki Motor Corp.
K-Mart
Levi Straus & Co.
Mattel Children's
McDonald's Corporation
McDonnell Douglas
McGraw Hill Foundation
MCI Telecommunications
Mead Corp.
Merrill Lynch
Mobil Foundation, Inc.
Monsanto Fund
Morton International Inc.
Motorola, Inc.
Neiman Marcus Group
Northern Trust Co.
Norton Company
Pacific Enterprises
PBG Foundation
Pennzoil Company
Pepsi Foundation
Pfizer
Phillip Morris Inc.
Polaroid Foundation
Printronix Inc
Prudential
Quaker Oats Foundation
Radio Shack
Raytheon Company
Rockwell International Corporation
Rohm and Haas Company
Sara Lee Corp.
Sempra Energy
Sony Corporation
Southern California Edison
Sprint Foundation
Stanley Works
State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance
Temple-Inland Foundation
Tenet Healthcare Foundation
Texas Instruments
Textron
Times Mirror Foundation
Thiokol Foundation
Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A.
Transamerica Systems
Tricon Foundation
Union Bank of California
U.S. Borax, Inc.
UPS Foundation
USG Foundation
Verizon
W. M. Keck Foundation
Wells Fargo Foundation
Westinghouse Electric Corp. v Weyerhaeuser Co.
Xerox Foundation

For more information regarding corporate matching, please contact Alina Mircea-Trotz at 714-662-2345 or alani@pacificchorale.org.

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In-Kind Gifts

There are many opportunities throughout the year for in-kind gifts, which play an important role in our annual fund.

Pacific Chorale gratefully acknowledges the following businesses and individuals for their generous in-kind donations of goods and services. We thank these individuals and also encourage Pacific Chorale supporters to patronize the businesses below.

The Black Iris
Brite Ideas, Inc.
The Buddy Group
C.J. Segerstrom & Sons
Denice Douglas C.P.A.
First American Trust Co.
Ms. Barbara Kingsbury
KOCE
Latham & Watkins LLP
The Patina Group–Pinot Provence
South Coast Plaza
Stan Sholik Photography
Stor-It Self Storage
Value Transfer Group
Westin South Coast Plaza Hotel
Yamaha Corp. of America

For more information about, or to make an in-kind gift, please contact Alina Mircea-Trotz at 714-662-2345 or alina@pacificchorale.org.

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