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Your Impact
DC’s Different Drummers relies on the generous support of people like you to keep our music and performances alive. Whether you’re family or friends of a DCDD member, you’ve been a long-time concertgoer, or you are just looking to help the queer arts scene in DC, we would love your support. Your donation means the world to us, and any generosity you offer helps us continue creating and sharing music with our community.
Supporting DCDD
DC’s Different Drummers is a very active organization! Our ensembles perform numerous times across the DC metropolitan region all year round (not just during Pride Month). These activates require a lot of expenses, including rehearsal space, instrument rental and repair, advertising, insurance, and traveling expenses, to name just a few. Support from our community partners and donors is essential to the continued operation and growth of our organization.
Additionally, DC’s Different Drummers is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Your support empowers all members of our musical community to perform with PRIDE! There are numerous options available for interested patrons to support our organization, and we greatly appreciate each and every contribution. See you at a performance soon!
Ames-Whitebeck Good Fairy Fund
Qualifying members may request funds to assist with their obligations on membership dues, uniforms, traveling for performances, and other expenditures. Participating members are obligated to make up their benefiting from the Good Fairy Fund via the performance of service hours to benefit DC’s Different Drummers. For more information, contact the Development Team.
Tax-Deductible Cash Donations
DC’s Different Drummers welcomes one-time or multiple tax-deductible cash donations from our generous patrons. These donations will go towards the DC’s Different Drummers general operating fund. This fund supports all DCDD musical groups and supplements our revenue from ticket sales and membership dues.
Donors will be recognized in our programs and other DC’s Different Drummers literature with the following designations:
- Friends of DCDD: $100-249
- Drummer’s Circle: $250-499
- Conductor’s Circle: $500-999
- Founder’s Circle: $1,000 & greater
Jon Sims Endowment Fund for the Performing Arts
DC’s Different Drummers is a proud participant in the Jon Sims Endowment Fund (JSEF). From the organization’s website:
Jon Sims began the LGBTQ+ performing arts movement when he formed a gay marching and concert band in San Francisco in 1978. To carry on his dream, the Jon Sims Endowment Fund for the Performing Arts attracts donations and bequests, invests the contributions, and distributes grants to qualified groups. JSEF is a recongized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
JSEF’s mission is to promote the ongoing vitality of LGBTQ+ non-profit performing arts organizations by encouraging them to invest in a protected fund that secures their long-term future under the auspices of JSEF. Additional support is provided by issuing grants to LGBTQ+ identified non-profit performing arts organizations.
For more information on donating to our endowment, please contact the DC’s Different Drummers development team.
Grants and Other Large Donations
DC’s Different Drummers is a frequent recipient of grants for our community work, and is always seeking new grant opportunities. If you have any referrals for grants and other sources of revenue, please contact DCDD’s development team.
Contact Us
For more information on opportunities to support DC’s Different Drummers, please reach out to our development team.
Your Donations Keep The Beat Going!
We are immensely grateful to the donors who have made our performances and safe LGBTQ+ space possible. Your support allows us to continue fostering a vibrant, inclusive artistic community, and we couldn’t do it without you.