Help us grow Alaska’s leaders!
Alaska Youth Orchestras invests in the next generation of leaders through music education and performance. We teach responsibility, commitment, self-confidence, discipline, and teamwork – values that will serve our young musicians well no matter the career path they choose. For the past 50 years we’ve worked to build musicianship, inspire our youth to love music, offer enriching opportunities for music performance, and create a musical legacy that will sustain arts throughout the lives of our members and our communities.
With your support, Alaska Youth Orchestras will continue to thrive for the next 50 years!
Here’s how you can help:
Attend one of our concerts
Donate to the Scholarship Fund
Make a General Donation
Sponsor a musician’s chair, their section, or even the Maestro’s podium
Advertise in our concert programs
Tell Fred Meyer you want to support Alaska Youth Orchestras with your purchases
Shop through Alaska Youth Orchestras Amazon Smile link
Thank you for making musical dreams come true by supporting Alaska Youth Orchestras!
Alaska Youth Orchestras is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
AYO Scholarship Fund
Help Us Turn $5,000 into $10,000
The Richard L. and Diane M. Block Foundation
has generously awarded
AYO a matching grant designated for AYO 2019-2020 scholarships. We need to raise $5,000 to meet our match challenge, which will allow us to use up to $10,000 towards off-setting the cost of our program for those who cannot otherwise afford to participate.
With your help we can make more musical dreams come true!
Donors can give to the general fund or specify a musician they’d like to sponsor.
AYO is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization and all donations are tax-deductible.
General Donation
A great way to help us is by making a donation. AYO strives to constantly increase and improve the opportunities available to our students, the visibility of our orchestras within our community, and the excellence of our orchestral groups. In order to keep our program vibrant and stable, we depend on contributions from individuals and local businesses.
AYO is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization and all donations are tax-deductible.
Sponsor a Chair
Sponsor a Section
Sponsor the Podium
We invite you to show your support and enthusiasm for AYO by sponsoring a musician, section or conductor. With this unique, tax-deductible gift, you can let your child, grandchild, friend, student, etc., know how proud you are of their AYO accomplishments and musical education. Chair sponsors are listed in concert programs.
Concert Program Advertising
Alaska Youth Orchestras Concert Program & Website advertising is a professional and targeted way to advertise your business, align yourself with a thriving arts organization, reach affluent and community-engaged patrons and support Alaska’s oldest youth orchestra.
For over 50 years AYO remains as one of the most prominent performing arts organizations in Alaska with music for all tastes from Classical to Pop. As a federally registered 501c(3) nonprofit organization, revenue from program advertising sales offsets the cost of the actual printing of the publication, allowing additional funds raised throughout the season to go directly to artistic and educational programs.
Alaska Youth Orchestras concert programs feature full-color front and back pages, music program notes, senior profiles, musician roster, editorial content, photos and advertisements. Concert programs are distributed at our three concert performances at The Alaska Center for the Performing Arts and remain available on our website for further exposure.
Fred Meyer Rewards
Fred Meyer is donating $2.6 million this year to non-profits in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. If you have already linked your card, thank you! If not, here’s how the program works:
Sign up for the Community Rewards program by linking your Fred Meyer Rewards Card to (non-profit) at www.fredmeyer.com/communityrewards. You can search for us by our name or by our non-profit number 85901.
Then, every time you shop and use your Rewards Card, you are helping (non-profit) earn a donation!
If you do not have a Rewards Card, they are available at the Customer Service desk of any Fred Meyer store.
For more information, please visit www.fredmeyer.com/ communityrewards.
Amazon Smile!
Support AYO by shopping through Amazon Smile! Click through and shop using this link and Amazon will donate a portion of what you spend to AYO.