We'd love your help!

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Dear friend of new music,

We have an UnTwelve composition competition in its beginning stages, with a
deadline on Dec. 15th. If you don't already know about the event, you can
read about it at http://www.untwelve.org/2010_competition.html
<http://www.untwelve.org/2010_competition.html%20>We currently offer a
first place cash prize of $400 dollars, because that's
what we are prepared to pay comfortably out of our current coffers. However,
we would like to raise donor money so that we can use our current money to
keep the organization funding future events. Our ability to meet our
operating expenses is at a critical stage, and in these tough economic
times, we are feeling the pinch!

We're writing to you to ask if you or anyone you know would be interested in
donating to the cause. You'd be enriching the life of a growing cultural
institution unique in the Midwest, and helping in the creation of wonderful
new music from fine composers, both young/upcoming and established.

One idea would be just to achieve through donations the $400 underwriting of
prize money, break even on helping our composers, and stop there. But
wouldn't it be great to have an all-out campaign similar to public radio,
and have a goal to raise more through our network of friends, colleagues,
and family--enough to offer smaller 2nd and 3rd place prizes and/or increase
the pot for the 1st prize, all the while generating momentum and excitement
for the event and for the organization?

"What's in it for me?", you say/think....

Well, the benefits to a donor would be:

- A pride and a sense of contibution to the arts
- A mention of their generosity in an email list blast, in fact, any
email blast between now and the end of the competition where the competition
is mention.
- Links from the UnTwelve website that mention them and/or their
organization; in other words, *we will advertise your cause or
organization *from our website page about the competition.
- Thank you gifts

We can do this with a few large or medium size donations from a few donors,
or we can accomplish this by many of you who want to help giving a small
amount : $5, $10, $20, $500, or whatever you might afford!!! Any donation
whatsoever will get you mentioned as a donor on the UnTwelve website and
emails. Every donation of $20-$100 will be met with a thank-you gift
of the 2009
UnTwelve compilation CD <http://www.untwelve.org/2009compilation.html>. Any
gift of $100 will get you a gift of free attendance for you and a friend at
the next 3 UnTwelve events. Any gift of $250 or more will be met with a
private performance at your home (provided you live in Illinois or the
midwest!!) of an extended piano solo work-in-progress, or a private
screening of not-yet-publicly released "60x60 UnTwelve mix" video,
consisting of video interpretations of 1-minute pieces by 60 composers, set
to video art by Patrick Liddell <http://www.ontologist.us> (and made in
collaboration with NYC's Vox Novus <http://www.voxnovus.com>). Out-of-state
donors will be mentioned on the UnTwelve website, at every live event and/or
printed concert programs, and can have ads for their organization embedded
into the competition webpage. The *top donor* will have the *first prize* in
the competition *named after them or** their organization!
*
So, perhaps you or someone or some organization you know would like to
support our cause of helping a composer receive a justly deserved award for
their hard work in creating a worthy new piece of music. If so, you can go
now to http://www.untwelve.org/donate.html and make your donation.

Thanks for all you do!

The UnTwelve crew
http://www.untwelve.org

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