Foundation and Festival Updates
The Else Borges Foundation for Arts Initiatives website is now live! We are still adding content, but I hope you’ll all take a moment to visit (www.elseborges.org). The Foundation in cooperation with West Branch International Music Festival & Academy is reaching out to cities throughout the US and Europe as we expand the funding base for scholarships to the Festival & Academy. The outreaches include free masterclasses for gifted young string players in New York, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Copenhagen, and more. There will also be two or three classes in the midstate. (Watch my calendar for details and dates.) We look to area corporations and philanthropists to support limited numbers of scholarships within their own communities for their young artists. In addition, the Foundation works with those corporations, individuals, and recipients to create an unprecedented amount of social service by artists, through music ministry, education, and ambassadorship. In the Capital region, we hope to raise enough annually to support 8-10 full scholarships for mid-state students. 2-4 scholarships will be raised in each of the other communities we bring masterclasses to, over the course of this Spring. The hope is that this also will be a successful foray into a more national scene for the Foundation and its efforts. Talks have also been initiated with the Danish Foreign Ministry, as this year’s West Branch programming features a large number of Danish and Scandinavian artists and music. This constitutes one of the most significant cultural exchanges between Denmark and the US in recent years. We hope to work with corporations on both sides of the Atlantic for meaningful partnerships that will make an ongoing exchange a reality.
If you would like to make a contribution to the noble causes the Else Borges Foundation supports, you may mail your tax deductible gift to: The Else Borges Foundation for Arts Initiatives, PO Box 126637, Harrisburg, PA 17112. The Foundation is proud to say that administrative costs are one of the lowest figures on our balance sheets. I personally collect no salary and 100% of the Board contributes to the Foundation each year.