[rodgersorganusers] Re: organ selection committee

Noel,

Excellent suggestions!  I wish I had thought of many of 
those when our church was purchasing our new Rodgers last 
summer.  Luckily, I was able to talk the Church into an 
outright purchase (with about $3,000 in donated funds) 
after hearing the quality of the organ.

Keith Stiles
Waynesville, NC

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 05:55:30 -0500
  "Noel Heinze" <noel.heinze@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>Ronnie, talk to your Rodgers dealer.  They should have 
>fundraising
>suggestions.  Talk to other churches, organists, the 
>AGO...how did they do
>it?
>
>Do some math...if you need to raise $100,000, you need 
>$100 from 1000
>people/families.  Or $1000 from 100 people/families.  Or 
>etc.
>
>How many stops on the new organ?  Let's say 75..."sell" 
>them at $500 each.
>How many keys and pedals?  It's a three manual, so let's 
>say 3X61=183 plus
>32 pedals = 215..."sell" them for $250 each.   How many 
>sounds and pitches?
>215 keys X 75 stops = over 16,000..."sell" them for $5 
>each.  Put out the
>word...the new console is "for sale" at $X for major 
>donors, ditto the
>speaker system, etc.  Get a local artist to develop 
>charts, banners, photo
>montages of stops and keys with donor's names inscribed 
>on them instead of
>Flute 8'.  I went through this once to raise money for a 
>pipe organ
>restoration/maintenance fund...one person was fascinated 
>by the crescendo
>pedal...I "sold" it to her...I asked her how much she 
>thought it was
>worth...she gave it some thought and came up with 
>$1000...I said "Make it
>$1500 and ya got a deal."  Done.
>
>At the risk of biting the hand that might like to feed 
>you, I would NOT go
>looking for a major donor to underwrite the whole 
>thing...the entire
>congregation needs to get in bed with this, feel 
>ownership, participate in
>this communion.  If you have such a would-be benefactor, 
>you might suggest a
>matching grant program where they give $1 (or more) for 
>every $1 contributed
>by the rest of the people.
>
>If some people feel the money should better be spent on 
>other things, like
>outreach, make it a tithing situation...X% of every 
>dollar raised goes to
>_________ (fill in the blank).
>
>Excelsior!
>
>Noel Heinze, Asheville, NC
>St. Giles Chapel, Deerfield Episcopal Retirement 
>Community
>Rodgers 835B and PR300S
>
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