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The Princeton Symphony Orchestra Endowment Fund

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra has made an organizational commitment to enhance its value to the community and maintain the highest level of musical excellence. As part of that commitment, an Endowment Fund was established to guarantee the orchestra’s long-term success and ongoing financial stability. Specifically, the Fund’s objectives are:

• To ensure the future growth and artistic excellence of the orchestra.

• To expand educational outreach initiatives in order to reach a greater number of school children, introducing them to and encouraging their knowledge of the orchestral experience.

• To expand our offerings of alternative types of concert programming, and to increase audience exposure to such programming as pops, family concerts, ethnic and community tributes, and new music concerts, among others.

• To maintain long-term fiscal stability.

The Orchestra has also enrolled in LEAVE A LEGACY New Jersey, an organization that promotes charitable giving as part of individuals’ estate plans. (More than 70% of Americans make charitable gifts during their lifetime, while the percentage of those making charitable bequests, or lifetime transfers which are given to the charity when a donor dies, is less than 8%.) The most efficient (i.e., least costly to you, the donor) way to help your favorite charity is through “planned giving.” The list of “planned giving” vehicles includes Charitable Remainder Trusts, Charitable Lead Trusts, Pooled Income Funds, Charitable Gift Annuities, and Donor Advised Funds administered by organizations such as the Princeton Area Community Foundation. If you would like to learn more about any of these forms of charitable giving please call the Symphony office at (609) 497-0020.