Operating Support
Operating Support
Giving Voice Initiative inspires and equips organizations to bring together people with Alzheimer's and other dementias and their care partners to sing in choruses that foster joy, well-being, purpose, and community understanding.
Peggy Burnet: entrepreneur, art collector, and community volunteer; Uri Camarena: director of business consulting with Metroplitan Economic Development Association (MEDA); Michael Charron: arts educator and an arts and civic leader; Richard Cohen: attorney in private practice and a former state legislator; Sean Dowse: arts advocate, arts practitioner, and civic leader; Anthony Gardner, vice president, marketing and communications at CentraCare; Philip McKenzie: team lead with Boutique Air, founder and owner of Bluedoor 74, adjunct college faculty; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; Dobson West: retired attorney; Christina Widdess: nonprofit consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre
Peggy Burnet: entrepreneur, art collector, and community volunteer; Uri Camarena: director of business consulting with Metroplitan Economic Development Association (MEDA); Michael Charron: arts educator and an arts and civic leader; Richard Cohen: attorney in private practice and a former state legislator; Sean Dowse: arts advocate, arts practitioner, and civic leader; Anthony Gardner, vice president, marketing and communications at CentraCare; Philip McKenzie: team lead with Boutique Air, founder and owner of Bluedoor 74, adjunct college faculty; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; Dobson West: retired attorney; Christina Widdess: nonprofit consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre
ACHF Arts Access
GVI singers will increase their musical knowledge, enhance vocal techniques, and build stronger social connections through choral singing. Outcome 1: Quantitative and qualitative information will be collected from singers via facilitated focus groups and surveys measuring changes in musical knowledge, ability and social connections. 2: Audiences will enjoy the high artistic quality of GVI concerts and increase their understanding of artistic abilities of people living with AD. Surveys will measure audience satisfaction with the artistic quality of each concert and document changes in understanding of artistic abilities of singers living with AD.
Singers reported the following outcomes: 55% increased musical knowledge, 60% enhanced vocal techniques and 70% built stronger social connections. Chorus members are asked to complete an anonymous online survey after the end of each session. Reported results are from singers and caregivers who participated in GVI's choruses and voluntarily completed the survey during the defined grant period. 2: Hundreds viewed GVI's concerts online during the pandemic and shared comments expressing high satisfaction with the concert quality and content. GVI normally conducts audience surveys at our in-person concerts, but due to COVID concerts switched to an online format last year. Surveys were sent to audience members we had contact information for and feedback helped us gauge the concert success.
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