<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 11, 2005, = at 12:25 PM, Alan Crane wrote:</DIV><BR = class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P = style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" = size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">A proposal has come from the = Dean here at WSU to launch an "Adopt-a-Piano" fund raising strategy = similar to the adopt-an-animal programs in place at various zoos around = the country.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; = font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: = 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" = style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Does anyone have either current or past = experience with such a program?</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px = 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: = 12.0px Helvetica">If so, can you give me any idea how it operated, what = pianos were involved, and how well (and how long) it worked for your = institution?</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px = 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px = Helvetica">I'd also be interested to know any downside or complications = that came along with it.</FONT></P> <BR = class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Isn't it = sad that we can get all the funding we need in maintenance for the = computers and copiers but we have to resort to silly private donation = campaigns to take care of the most rudimental teaching tool in the = school of music?</DIV><DIV><BR = class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>In answer to your question, = I've thought about something very similar, but that's about it. We = have a "dinner theater" event in March that we call the "Moveable = Musical Feast" for our donors. I thought about seeing if we could add = something like this to the "donor games" they play, but I wonder if the = powers that be might reject the idea because it would cut into other = programs the event is designed to raise money for.</DIV><DIV><BR = class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I've also thought about a = concert series.</DIV><DIV><BR = class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Jeff</DIV><DIV><BR = class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <SPAN = class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; = font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Jeff Tanner, = RPT</DIV><DIV>University of South Carolina</DIV><DIV><BR = class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR = class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>=