There Are Many Ways You Can Help

The Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra (PACO) is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization and is supported primarily by membership dues, grants, and donations. PACO’s tax ID number is 94-1656715. Your support provides much-needed revenue for our programs and helps us continue the quality traditions that are the hallmark of the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra. Any amount is appreciated.

Individual Donations

Current PACO families, alumni and friends of PACO are encouraged to donate to our annual campaign. Donations are tax-deductible to extent allowed by law. Donations may be made securely online via VBO Tickets filling out the donation form below, or via check which may be mailed payable to PACO to: Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra 4000 Middlefield Road #M1 Palo Alto, CA 94303.

Current family members are suggested to donate $800 per student for Super Strings and Prep orchestras and $1,000 per student for students in Debut, Sinfonia and the Senior Orchestra.

Corporate Matching Gifts

It may be possible to double the impact of your gift to PACO! Many corporations will match gifts to charitable institutions. For information about your employer’s gift matching program, contact your human resources office at your workplace.

Gifts of Stocks, Mutual Funds, Bonds or ETFs

Please contact [email protected]with 'stock gift' in the subject line.  We will send you all of the information and forms necessary to start this process.

Where Does Your Donation Go?

Student tuition only covers a small portion of our programming costs. It is our goal to offer excellent teaching staff for all students, individualized chamber music instruction, concerts, guest artists, guest clinicians, masterclasses and many new programs under new Music Director Scott Krijnen. Your gift of support helps fund our PACO mission of cultivating the highest artistic value, instilling a life-long appreciation for chamber music in young people and embracing the importance of human relationships! We thank you for your contribution.

• PACO Academy - Chamber Music Conservatory - This is a year-long program designed to allow our chamber students the opportunity to work together in concert with professional coaches to intensively dive into the study chamber music. We are excited to expand chamber music programming which represents the core of PACO values.
• Instrument upgrade - PACO would like to improve and potentially expand its collection of violas and violins. An instrument of quality allows a student to grow without limitations.  Your donation allows for access to an instrument that doesn't limit the student’s technique, but expands it. 
• Venues and soloists - Great halls and guest artists inspire musicians and audiences alike. PACO aims to expand its concert venues in addition to its established venue at Cubberley, both of which come at increased cost. If there was a patron that would like to support an artist access fund, we would love to speak with you regarding ideas and possibilities.

PACO has also made a large impact beyond the walls of Cubberley, the United States and beyond.

• PACO Out In To the World.  We want to share the PACO experience of playing well with others with our community both locally and internationally. We have a robust schedule of community outings which our students and chamber groups take part in throughout the Bay Area. Additionally, we have a collaboration with a music school in Accra Ghana, where we send musical instruments and supplies and our students interact with the students in Accra to teach weekly music lessons over Zoom.
• Lessons For All.  PACO is looking to support music lessons given by faculty to those who can’t afford them considering the financial challenges for some of living in the Bay Area. The longterm result would be more music in more communities, a stronger connection to the diversity that represents the Bay Area and another way to get PACO out into the world. Request further information.