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Thank You to our Great Give Donors

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Thank you to the following donors who have contributed to MFA through The Great Give. You are keeping MFA at the top of the Leaderboard! Bernece Adelstein Theodore Allison Mary Lou Allison Lauren Altemus Marcia Alvar Sharon Arsenault Frank Arsenault Harold Ashby Bruno baran Bruno baran PHILIP BARNES Linda Barnhart Robert and Patti Bartlett Jo Barton Anne Bement Temple Blackwood…

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Hannah is Counting on You!

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MFA is participating in The Great Give this year to help fund a fellowship for Hannah Sturm  – a young woman who wants a start in an arts management career.  Hannah lives in Arnold MD and graduate in May from St. Mary’s College summa cum laude, majoring in performing arts and minoring in curatorial studies. We are lucky that she…

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Thank You for making MFA #1

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    There are many ways in which you make MFA #1! Thank you!                 It’s great to get your votes of confidence!               Now there’s one other contest we need to win! Help MFA be #1 again – and raise more than $20,000 to support a…

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Did You Know….?

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Did you know that it costs MFA $165 to hang a picture on the wall? It’s not because we have expensive walls (we don’t) or because we hire expensive installers (they’re all volunteers), or because we waste money (our expenses, after paying for staff, have actually decreases by 5% in the past 10 years). It’s just that it costs money…

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How MFA Keeps the Doors Open and the Lights On!

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It takes money to run an organization – even a nonprofit organization. We pay rent, utilities – and gallery managers like Mia and Hannah! While art is at the heart of MFA, without sufficient income it isn’t possible to keep the organization running. It’s a puzzle fitting together the different income streams that keep MFA’s doors open: Exhibition Fees, Membership Dues, Fundraising…

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Great Give 2015!!! What MFA does with the money!

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For the past two years, MFA has participated in “The Great Give” a 24-hour fund-a-thon sponsored by the Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County. Nonprofits in Anne Arundel County compete for cash prizes by getting a lot of donors to make small gifts in support of their favorite nonprofits. And we’ve been VERY successful.  For the past two years, MFA…

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what $22,000 means to MFA

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Between 6 pm May 7 and 6 pm May 8, MFA received $22,009 in donations and prize money through The Great Give, a 24-hour fund-a-thon put on by the Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County (CFAAC). MFA asked everyone to GIVE $10 – and 477 people gave us a total of $10,532. Belair Produce, our GIVE $10 sponsor, pledged $1 for every…

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How MFA Keeps the Doors Open

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It takes money to run an organization – even a nonprofit organization. While art is at the heart of MFA, it isn’t possible without sufficient income to keep the organization running. It’s a puzzle fitting together the different income streams that keep MFA’s doors open: Exhibition Fees, Membership Dues, Fundraising and Net Sales. For MFA, like many nonprofits, the largest income…

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