Your support directly impacts the daily success of BISFA students. Opportunities to give are as unique and diverse as they are! Your kind investment will make a dramatic impact for generations to come.
Annual Giving – Hearts for the Arts Membership
Support for BISFA’s Hearts for the Arts Annual Membership (September 2024 – June 2025) directly funds the Discipline Enrichment Grant Program. Enrichment grants make it possible for BISFA students in EVERY discipline to greatly benefit from an enhanced arts education. Nurture their Passion…Support their Talent!
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Buy a Brick Campaign
Make your mark on downtown Hagerstown. For $250, purchase an engraved brick to be placed on the sidewalk in front of Barbara Ingram School for the Arts and Vincent Rauth Groh Academic Center. Recognize a student or alumni, creating a lasting memory for a loved one or add your family’s name in support of arts and education in our community.
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Supporting the Arts Program Sponsorships
Join your community in Supporting the Arts while gaining valuable exposure for your company through our annual sponsorship program (October 2024 – June 2025). More than 12,000 program books are printed and distributed during 60+ BISFA student performances throughout the year.
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Holiday Lamp Post Campaign
Holiday Lamp Post CampaignA popular holiday campaign, the BISFA Foundation and the City of Hagerstown decorate the heart of our city center with festive greens, lights, and 18″x18″ sign with your company logo, business, or personal name. Signups typically begin in late September/early October and signs are posted November through January.
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Giving Tuesday
Held the Tuesday following Thanksgiving. Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement that unleashes the power of radical generosity around the world.
Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past nine years, this idea has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.
This Year GIVING TUESDAY is celebrated on Tuesday December 3, 2024. This day of giving is primarily a social media and on-line driven fundraising campaign.
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Annual Summer Arts Academy Sponsorships
The mission of the Summer Arts Academy, held each July at BISFA, is to provide a creative and supportive environment for young adults to grow as artists, writers, dancers, actors, musicians and individuals. Sponsorship dollars help provide the funding for guest speakers, master classes, and other materials needed to enhance this experience.
