The North Shore Choral Society is a not-for-profit community chorus which has served this area for more than seventy years, giving many hundreds of non-professional singers the opportunity to perform choral masterworks, both classical and contemporary. The NSCS is a member of the Illinois Arts Alliance and is partially supported by grants from the Illinois Arts Council, an agency of the State of Illinois. Principal support, however, comes from individual and corporate sponsors as well as ticket sales. Your contribution, large or small, is important. Please consider becoming a sponsor of the North Shore Choral Society. There may be significant tax benefits in donating appreciated stock to the North Shore Choral Society. Learn more. Help Make the Music Happen! Principal Benefactor Guarantor Sustaining Member Patron Donor Contributor $1,000 + $ 500 - $999 $ 250 - $499 $ 100 - $249 $  50 - $99 $   5 - $49 We also depend upon our concert program advertisers listed below. You can advertise in the concert program by printing this form, completing it, and mailing it. When you advertise in our program,we can link to your web site from this page. For more information about becoming a sponsor of NSCS please contact:  Len Barker- (847) 272-2351 ART & MUSIC Audio Consultants Bella Voxe Evanston Symphony Orchestra FolkWorks Gallery Good's of Evanston Horizon Brass Quintet J.O'Reilly Productions Music Unlimited Northbrook Symphony Orchestra Sing to Live WFMT Midnight Special AUTOMOTIVE, APPLIANCES & HARDWARE Dempster Auto Rebuilders, Inc. Glenn's Duxler Tire Harold's True Value Hardware Kelly's Appliances Lemoi Ace Hardware BOOKS, GIFTS, VINTAGE ITEMS & CLOTHING Lois & Company Forgotten Times Ltd. Natural Things Flowers North Shore Soccer & More COMPUTER & BUSINESS SERVICES National Award Services Quartet Copies FINANCIAL & LEGAL SERVICES Devon Bank First Bank & Trust Evanston Hoogendoorn & Talbot LLP Norm Underwood, Jr., Legal Services United Financial Group Henricus Vroegh, Widmann, Siff & Co., Inc. Gerald Weiner, Morgan Stanley FOOD & BEVERAGES Casteel Coffee Jilly's Café MJ Catering Rollin' in Dough Spillin' the Beans Tre Kronor Restaurant HEALTH & EDUCATION Cat Hospital of Chicago Coventry Eye Care Family Medicine Associates North Shore Dental (Jill Horwitz) Roycemore School Margie Skelly Writing/Editing/Tutoring Kathleen Buchanan Trusdell, Psychotherapy Quest Academy PERSONAL SERVICES Art + Science = Hair Coiffeur Copenhagen Frank Kiesel & Associates Hair Design REAL ESTATE, HOME & GARDEN Anton's Greenhouse Autumn Green/Wright Campus Cahill Plumbing Cyrus Realty Group Dahlquist Architecture, Inc. Mather Lifeways North Shore Retirement Hotel Presbyterian Homes Renaissance Realty & Construction TMC Windows, Inc. Weichert-Lakeshore Partners SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS Evanston Community Foundation GIFTS IN KIND Artwork:  Olver Dunlop Associates Computer Services:   Paul M.W. Green Copying and Printing: Central Avenue Printing Mars Longden Quartet Copies Credit Card Services:   First Bank & Trust of Evanston Facilities:   Northminster Presbyterian Church, Evanston St. John's Lutheran Church, Wilmette St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Evanston Trinity Lutheran Church, Evanston Mailings: George and Cynthia Zilliac Music: Music Unlimited Program Notes:   Donald Draganski   Information about gifts of stock to the North Shore Choral Society The North Shore Choral Society is the grateful recipient of contributions from its audience and the general public.  The following paragraphs describe how donors with appreciated stock can get the greatest benefit from their gifts, and provide specific information about how to transfer their stock. Assume, shall we, that you have appreciated stock and you would like make a contribution to  NSCS?  Let’s look at your options: Should you use your hard-earned (after-tax) dollars to contribute?  If you do, of course, you will be able to deduct the value of your contribution on your Federal tax return, which is a nice benefit.  But this isn’t the wisest use of your resources. Should you sell some of your stock and then contribute the proceeds of the sale?  Again, you will be able to deduct the value of your contribution – BUT, you will be taxed on the amount by which your stock grew since you purchased it.  Again, not the wisest use of your resources. The wisest action is to contribute the stock itself to the NSCS.  That way, you won’t pay tax on the stock’s growth AND you get to deduct the value of the stock, as well!  You help yourself while helping the North Shore Choral Society.  (Note that this works best with stock that has grown in value.) There’s only one logistical problem.  Stock in your account may only be transferred into another brokerage account – it can’t be accepted by our bank.  Fortunately, NSCS has established a brokerage account to receive such donations.  After receiving the stock, we can sell it and deposit the proceeds into our bank account.  Here is the information your broker needs to transfer stock into our account:             Account Name: North Shore Choral Society             Account Holder: Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.             Account Number: 1141-9660             DTC Number: 0164             Tax ID Number: 941737782 Gary Hendrickson NSCS Treasurer