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Donate to Young Audiences of Virginia

You can make a difference in the lifelong learning of a child by helping us provide more arts resources.

A generous gift like yours brought this father and daughter together.

Young Audiences of Virginia is committed to strengthening the role that art plays in helping to enrich learning and life for all children throughout Virginia. We are asking you to help us raise funds to expand our services to effectively reach teachers, children, and schools with few resources. We want all 1,878 schools in Virginia and the 1.4 million children in them to experience the kind of arts experiences that enhance learning and expand creative capacity.

Your financial support translates directly into programs and services for children. You make it possible for us to:

• work with artists to develop new performances aligned with Virginia Standards of Learning that support and enrich student learning across the curriculum.
• develop and implement new Arts for Learning Literacy Services that are designed to dramatically improve students' reading, writing, and communication skills.
• expand our services for young children by offering exciting new programs that increase reading readiness and provide the kinds of creative opportunities that help young brains develop in preparation for school and life.
• offer after-school programs that allow young people the opportunity to develop an identity for themselves as "cultural creatives" (people who create rather than just consume culture) through pursuits like photography, acting, ballroom dancing, recording, or learning to play musical instruments.
• create innovative new programs that help students become dynamic and effective communicators by integrating theater and visual art training with storytelling.

Your generous donation:

• Makes it possible for YAV to present over 1,500 arts service hours a year
• Enables us to present music, dance, theater, and visual, and literary works that exhilarate and enrich the lives of students and teachers.
• Allows us to reach more than 225,000 children (PK-12th) and educators a year through our arts for learning performances, workshops, trainings, and residencies.

Fiscal Year 2011-2012 Donors By Category

This list reflects donations received before April 15, 2012

Benefactor of the Arts (+$25,000)
Business Consortium For Arts Support
Norfolk Commission on the Arts & Humanities
The Batten Fund
Virginia Commission for the Arts

Director of the Arts ($10,000 – $24,999)
Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. Barry, III
Mrs. Bettie Minette Cooper
Mr. Joshua P. Darden, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Louis F. Ryan
Mr. Dwight Schauback
Mr. Lawrence L. Steingold, CPA
Newport News Arts Commission
The Brock Foundation
Virginia Beach Arts & Humanities Commission

Patron of the Arts ($5,000 - $9,999)
Dr. Ramona Mapp
E.C. Wareheim Foundation
Ferguson Enterprises, Inc
Fine Family Fund
Mr. William J. Griggs, Jr.& Mr. Ernie Warinner, IV
Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Hale
Mr. James A. Hixon
Mr. Thomas G. Johnson, Jr.
Norfolk Southern Foundation
Portsmouth General Hospital Foundation
Portsmouth Museum and Fine Arts Commission
Roanoke City Arts Commission
Rona & Erwin Drucker
Charitable Trust
Williamsburg Community Foundation

Believer of the Arts ($2,500 - $4,999)
Amerigroup Corporation
BB&T of Virginia,
Hampton Roads
Chesapeake Fine Arts Commission
Find Your Light Foundation
Hampton Arts Commission
Mr. Russell P. Allen
Mr. John Page Garrett
Mrs. Beth N Hazelette
Mr. & Mrs. Marc Kirchner
Mrs. Anne Shumadine
Pruden Foundation
Richard Bennett Trust
The Douglas & Marianne Dickerson Foundation
TowneBank
Wall, Einhorn, & Chernitzer, P.C.
Williamsburg Area Arts Commission

Creator of the Arts ($1,000 - $2,499)
Alternate ROOTS
David R. Goode CLA Trust
Dr. & Mrs. Michael Bohan
Dr. Nancy DeFord
Dr. Cindy Galumbeck
Dr. & Mrs. Bill Graves
Equity Concepts, LLC
GAA Management, LLC
Mrs. Rose P. Allgood
Mrs. Deborah Bentley
Mr. Edwin Brown
Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Brown
Mr. William K. Butler, II
Mr. & Mrs. Stanwood Dickman
Mr. & Mrs. Martin A. Einhorn
Mr. & Mrs. Baron Gordon
Mrs. Sheila V. Jamison-Schwartz
Mr. James Jiral
Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Leon
Mr. & Mrs. V. J. Mastracco, Jr.
Mr. Richard G. Parise
Ms. Ann D. Reed
Mr. David Snouffer
Mr. & Mrs. Louis D. Snyder
Mr. Bob Stanton
Roanoke, County of
The Louis Snyder Foundation
York, County of

Artist ($500 - $999)
Earl Industries
Kiwanis Club of Roanoke
Ms. Wendy Jo Einhorn Brodsky
Mr. & Mrs. Jack Ezzell
Ms. Karen Fine
Mr. & Mrs. W. Granger, III
Mr. Robert G. Hofheimer, Jr.
Mr. Claus Ihlemann & Mr. Robert Roman
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald C. Jaffe
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth M. Krakaur
Ms. Sheila Magula
Ms. Ernestine K. Middleton
Mr. David Nelson
Mrs. William T. Roos
Mrs. Jean H. Shackelford
Ms. Sarah E. Shearman
Mr. & Mrs. William H. Swan
Palace Shops & Palace Station, LLC
S.L. Nusbaum Realty Co.
Zel-Tech

Muse ($100 - $499)
Anonymous
Bank of America
Cleveland Street Bingo
Cooper Realty, Inc.
Cortani Morrison
Dr. & Mrs. J. Sumner Bell, III
Dr. & Mrs. Gerald Einhorn
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Harrell
Dr. & Mrs. John Hess
Dr. & Mrs. Edward L. Lilly
Dr. & Mrs. Dale W. Oller
Dr. & Mrs. G.W. Pegram, Jr.
Dr. Amelia Ross-Hammond
Dr. & Mrs. Ronald & Kay A. Stine
Dr. & Mrs. Edward J. Weisberg
Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Weisberg
Dr. & Mrs. Carl P. Wisoff
ECS Mid-Atlantic, LLC
Fannie, Milton And Leslie
Friedman Foundation
Members of the Combined Federal Campaign
Ms. M. Abey Albert
Mr. & Mrs. James F. Babcock
Ms. Nancy Bangel
Mr. Brian Bonson
Mrs. Mary Dame Broad
Ms. Rebecca Buck
Ms. Cynthia Cooke
Ms. Kathryn Copeland
Ms. Nancy M. Davenport
Mr. William R. Emerson
Mr. Richard Fay
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Fine
Ms. Gale Garner
Ms. Jane Klein Goldman
Mr. Alan Gollihue
Mrs. Barbara L. Gornto
Mr. & Mrs. Louis & Suzanne Guy
Ms. Stephanie Howe
Ms. Marilyn C. Hoyt
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Kafigian
Mr. David M. Lajoie
Mrs. Rosalyn D. Landres
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Major
Mr. & Mrs. Arnold B. McKinnon
Mr. Adrian C. Melissinos
Mr. Robert C. Nusbaum
Ms. Lee-Ann O’Dell
Mr. & Mrs. Norman Olitsky
Ms. Elizabeth G. Pappas
Ms. Inger Bratland Pincus
Ms. Nancy B. Prichard
Mrs. Jennifer Priest
Mr. Morris Reynolds
Mr. & Mrs. A. S. Reynolds, Jr.
Mr. Alfred B. Rollins, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Philip P. Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Edward B. Snyder
Ms. Joyce J. Swindell
Ms. Judith R. Thaler
Mr. Radm B. E. Tobin, Jr.
Ms. Anne F. Waring
Ms. Linda Webb
Mrs. Ann Payne Wood
Ms. Ann Wright
Mr. & Mrs. John O. Wynne
Portsmouth Music Study Club
Progressive Graphics/LG
Creative Promotions
The Alan & Esther Fleder Foundation
The Hon. & Mrs. R. Townsend, Jr.
The Summit Group of Virginia, LLP

Friend of the Arts ($99 or less)
Anonymous
Dr. & Mrs. Bernard Einhorn
Dr. & Mrs. G. William Whitehurst
Dr. & Mrs. L. W. Kersey
Dr. & Mrs. Ray C. Otte
Dr. Barry Wepman
Dr. Leland Whitelock
Dr. Patricia Terry
Dr. Robert Johnson
Johnson & Johnson Co.
Mr. Todd W. Areson
Mr. & Mrs. William Bernstein
Ms. Amy Binda
Mrs. Judith N. Boone
Ms. Susan Borland
Mr. & Mrs. John H. Brewington
Mrs. Louise P. Buxton
Ms. Barbara Chapman
Mr. John Chappell
Ms. Lynn Cherin
Mrs. Alice A. Clarke
Mr. Jeff Cooper
Ms. Cynthia Cutler
Ms. Lisa A. Decoste
Ms. Linda Delgado
Mrs. Jonna Detweiler
Mr. Joseph Dimino
Ms. Juanita G. Felton
Ms. Melinda Ferguson
Mrs. Barbara H. Fleming
Ms. Vivian Forman
Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert Friedman
Ms. Shirley George
Mr. & Mrs. E.L & Anna Green
Mrs. Margaret Gupta
Mr. Harley Handy
Mr. William S. Hargroves
Mr. Norman Hecht
Mr. Chris Hilliard
Ms. Jean B. Hilton
Ms. Dorothy Holtz
Ms. Noel E. Howard
Ms. Malia Huddle
Mr. Jeremy Johnson
Mr. Jeffrey Joyner
Ms. Marcia L. Larson
Mr. W. Tucker Lemon
Ms. Cathy Lewis
Mr. & Mrs. Joel S. Lewis
Mr. & Mrs. Kirk & Sarah Ludwig
Ms. Tamara Lumpkin
Mr. Alf J. Mapp, III
Mr. Jon McGihon
Ms. Eva Melatti
Mr. James L. Miller
Mr. David Moore
Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Palmer
Mr. James Parrish
Ms. Nancy G. Parsons
Mr. & Mrs. John M. Payne
Ms. Marilyn Richardson
Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Rivin
Ms. Jennifer Mariah Rochester
Mr. Ronald Rodgers
Mr. & Mrs. Jordan Rosenblum
Ms. Bonnie Salter
Mr. & Mrs. Harlan Sherwat
Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Sondej
Mr. Stephen G. Test
Mr. & Mrs. David S. Warren
Mr. Clay West
Ms. Claire Winiarek
Mr. & Mrs. G. Byron Work
Mr. & Mrs. Manuel Wyron
Thoroughgood Music Study Club