Breaking News!! One of our longtime individual donors has just offered us a matching $10,000 challenge contribution! For every dollar (or any equivalent currency value) that anyone donates to Listen For Life, they will match it, up to $10,000! And believe me, our projects need every bit of that!
You can designate your donation to be for a particular project, too, if you wish. It will all count!
We are so excited (and grateful) but this will only work if you, too, can participate! Here's how:
- Go to ListenForLife.org and hit "donate" to do a very safe secure transaction online,
- or call us (LFL offices: +1 510 540 8136) or email Donna (dstoering@gmail.com)
- or mail it (as a check or money order) to Listen for Life offices, c/o Donna Stoering, 1279 Sussex Way, Hayward Calif 94544 USA
- For your donation/tax records, our EIN# is 65-1200601
- Every little bit will help us to meet this challenge so we can help more musicians to use their gifts in the service of others. Thanks again!
If you would like more info on our three focus projects, continue reading below. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Even just during the past 8-9 months, your support of LFL has empowered our "small but mighty" all-volunteer organization to make a tremendous difference in the lives of thousands of individuals, both worldwide and close to home. We've adjusted some of our projects (and added new ones!) to find ways in which we can specifically address the impacts of Covid-19 upon the global community.
UPDATES On 3 LFL PROJECTS:
1. Combining music, neurology, and technology, we've created a new project called Against The Noise (ATN for short). It's gaining a lot of excitement worldwide from major research hospitals, doctors, and hospice directors....And it directly helps Covid patients in ICUs! And right now, you can support this project in two important ways: - If you would like to get a unique holiday gift for a family member or friend, you can donate $50 in their name and that will provide ATN to one more ICU or hospice patient, in a location of your choosing!
- Or go to https://againstthenoise.hearnow.com/ and purchase lots of downloads or CDs as gifts for friends - every penny of proceeds from these sales goes towards our providing ATN to more hospitals, hospice centers and Covid patients!
2. Since Covid has forced most education (and travel!) to happen virtually/online, we've made our award-winning educational resource, Travels with Music, available for free online, worldwide - so spread this news to any armchair traveler or any teacher, school curriculum director, homeschooling parent, or disgruntled online student you know! TWM also now has a completely new website (still at TravelsWithMusic.com) 3. When Covid closed the Notes for Nourishment concerts happening in various venues, our 17-year old volunteer (and NFN performer) Josie Chan recreated the whole concept online - and thanks to her ingenuity, our audiences (and the causes they help us raise funds for) are now global as well! Josie started the NFN LIVE Online monthly series of global broadcasts, and created a new website, NotesForNourishment.org ! Your donations made during these online concerts have already raised thousands of dollars for a variety of important causes and nonprofits nourishing their communities. But your ongoing (separate) support of Listen for Life is equally needed, to help us to defray the expenses involved in producing and promoting these NFN concerts!------------------------------ ----------------------------- So - We have been way too busy doing these important projects (and many more), and chose not to divert any time towards participation in #GivingTuesday fundraising campaigns for this year :(
If you happen to make end-of-year donations at any time in the coming weeks, we very much hope that you will remember us and include ListenForLife in your contributions. Please.
But we also value your feedback, thoughts, ideas, contacts, and virtual volunteering, so please be in touch!
Warmest wishes and deepest thanks-
from Donna and all of us at Listen for Life
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