Needs
Our basic funding needs are to: provide liability insurance, maintain our music library and website, pay our Music Director's salary, pay educators to conduct improvisation clinics, pay professional musicians to substitute for regular band members, and reimburse volunteer band member expenses. We may also have to pay for rehearsal space or to perform in public festivals.
Our annual expenses are currently about $4,000.
Our performance fees for non-profits and public venues (typically less than the fee for a DJ) leave little room for expanding our jazz improvisation clinics or providing volunteer reimbursement.
Our priorities for funding beyond our current budget are:
1) to expand our jazz improvisation clinics to more high and middle schools in the Sacramento region. The cost of providing expert instruction is about $200 per clinic.
2) to reimburse band members for expenses incurred for gigs.
An expanded annual budget of $8,000 would allow us to offer jazz improvisation clinics to five high school or middle school jazz programs, and to ensure that band members receive expense reimbursement for our usual performance schedule.