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Montréal, October 1st, 2024 – Mécénat Musica’s donor matching program has successfully attained its $100 million goal of in perpetuity capital for Québec cultural organizations, enabling Mécénat Musica to reveal 70 artist and donor initiatives: 38 Artist Prizes, 15 Artist Residencies, 7 Artist Programs and 10 Donor Programs:
Mécénat Musica 38 Artist Prizes
Prix Goyer: The largest prize, $125,000, for collaborative emerging artist in classical music in Canada, one of the largest in the world.
Prix HEC Artistes: HEC Montréal grants (7 per year), $125,000 over 5 years, to develop a new generation of Quebec cultural managers.
Prix Crowdfunding: Matching grants (10 per year), $125,000 over 5 years, for small classical music ensembles, for projects of their choice.
Actor’s North Prize: Matching grants (20 per year), for professional actors, to improve their professional knowledge and skills.
Mécénat Musica 15 Artist Residencies
Ambassadors in Residence: Ten NextGen artists and arts administrators present Mécénat Musica, to create an in-perpetuity culture.
Artist in Residence: Collaborates in performances with Mécénat Musica organizations.
Composer in Residence: Provides compositions to emerging Quebec & Canadian artists, without royalties, in perpetuity.
Educator in Residence: Embodies artistic citizenship, actively fostering equity, diversity and inclusion.
Choral in residence: Fifteen album anthology covering the history of choral music, and a free online resource library of videoclips.
Ambassador Emeritus: Encourages organizations to collaborate, to create an in-perpetuity culture in the community.
Mécénat Musica 7 Artist Programs
Mini-Concerts Santé & Mini-Opéras Santé: Educates and supports children, adolescents, elderly, adults, and families in underserved neighborhoods, who do not have exposure to culture. 2024: 3,500 concerts, 33,000 spectators, 1,100 musician hires, 46 cities and towns.
Mini-Galas: Musicians thank Mécénat Musica donors and their families for donations to the cultural organization important to the donor.
Poterie Opéra: Hand-made pottery delivered by opera singer to mothers and fathers in precarious situations on Mother’s & Father’s Day.
Garage: 50 garage concerts (over 5 years) with professional immigrant musicians (23% of the population are immigrants) presenting their culture of origin, collaborating with local artists, in a spirit of diversity & inclusion.
Le 9e Grand Salle: 50 chamber music concerts (over 5 years) in Montreal’s world class Art Deco heritage site – Le 9e Grand Salle.
Touring: 50 chamber music concerts (over 5 years) across up to 40 towns in the Maritimes.
Mécénat Musica 10 Donor Programs
Cultural Donation Tax Credit: Individuals make a cash donation of $25,000 to the in perpetuity fund of the cultural organization important to them (Québec net cost after tax, once in a lifetime, is $6,750 or $5,425 – see Note B). Watch videoclip Mécénat Musica in Perpetuity.
Mécénat Musica Family: Philanthropic families match individuals’ donations with donations of $250,000 or $2,500,000.
Donation of Shares: Individuals make a $25,000 donation of public company shares (net cost with large non-realized gains can be as low as $4,566 – see Notes) and can be done by the donor multiple times.
Quebec resident corporations & shareholders: Make a donation of $250,000 of public company shares (net cost with large non-realized gains can be as low as $5,841 – see Notes).
Donation of RRSP/RRIF: Donors donate funds not needed for their retirement or estate, to in-perpetuity funds of cultural organizations.
Condos for Culture©: Donors donate condos, houses, chalets or other personal use, real estate, hassle-free to in-perpetuity funds.
Donors-in-Residence: Mécénat Musica donors helping donors join Mécénat Musica, to keep culture healthy, in perpetuity.
Community Foundation Partners: $102 million is administered by three collaborating community foundations: the Foundation of Greater Montreal, the Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal and Fondation Québec Philanthrope, generating $5,000,000 in annual revenue (5.0%) … in perpetuity … for the benefit of 50 Quebec cultural organizations.
In celebration of these initiatives and milestones, we invite you and your mother to join us at Maison Symphonique on Mother’s Day, Sunday May 11th, 2025 at 15h00.
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