{"id":479,"date":"2010-06-09T09:48:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T09:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=479"},"modified":"2010-06-09T09:48:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T09:48:07","slug":"a_grood_great_and_good_cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2010\/06\/a_grood_great_and_good_cause\/","title":{"rendered":"A grood (great and good) cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presentmusic.org\/index.php\">Present (adjective, not verb) Music<\/a>, a great organization with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2008\/10\/wittywaltzing-party-stravinsky.html\">excellent marketing materials<\/a> is trying to raise $30,000 this spring. Here are their reasons to give:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. If we reach our goal, the Herzfeld Foundation will match your gift<br \/>2. Present Music will end the season in the black, with no deficit&#8230;yay!<br \/>3. We&#8217;ll put half of your gift in the Audience Commission Fund to help support a future world premiere commission<br \/>4. More support leads to more collaborations with exciting guest artists and composers<br \/>5. It&#8217;s an investment in PM&#8217;s amazing musicians<br \/>6. It leads to more Creation Project residencies in Milwaukee Schools<br \/>7. It&#8217;s fun to create, hear and experience new work <br \/>8. It feels good to show the world that Milwaukee is a creative force. PM is a proven achiever, with 5 national &#8220;adventurous programming awards&#8221; <br \/>9. Even a little goes a long way&#8230;your gift in any amount helps us reach our goal and secure the Herzfeld Challenge<br \/>10. Every $ you give generates an additional $<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, if only this lovely Herzfeld Foundation would match my non-existent 401K dollars, we&#8217;d be all set. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Present (adjective, not verb) Music, a great organization with excellent marketing materials is trying to raise $30,000 this spring. Here are their reasons to give: 1. If we reach our goal, the Herzfeld Foundation will match your gift2. Present Music will end the season in the black, with no deficit&#8230;yay!3. We&#8217;ll put half of your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}