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Options for Giving
Network for Good
Network for Good has created a secure, convenient donation system that makes it possible to make a donation from anywhere, anytime online.
HOW IT WORKS: To make a tax-deductible contribution to Soli Deo Gloria online, click on Network for Good. Once there, you can designate the amount of your gift, as well as any donation preference you might have. Your donation will be transacted using industry-leading Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to protect your personal information. All donations are tax deductible as provided by law. Soli Deo Gloria is a fully qualified 501(c)3 organization as recognized by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Your tax deductible receipt will be mailed to the postal address you provide.
Donations via check or credit card
Even though we live in a computer-age, you don’t need a computer to make a donation! SDG gladly accept donations via checks that are delivered by hand by the local postal carrier. If you would prefer to send your contribution via mail, please click here to download a donation form and send it with your contribution to:
SOLI DEO GLORIA, Inc.
800 Roosevelt Road, Suite A100
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Credit card donations may also be sent via fax at 630-984-4302, or by phone at 630-984-4300.
GoodShop
GoodShop is an online shopping mall of merchants, including Amazon.com, Bed Bath & Beyond, Best Buy, Bloomingdales, Crate & Barrel, Ebay, Expedia . . . the list goes on and on!). When you designate Soli Deo Gloria as your charity of choice, each purchase you make at one of these stores, via the GoodShop mall, results in an automatic donation to us—averaging approximately 3% of the sale, but it can go up to 20% or even 30%. And you get a bonus, too! GoodShop offers tons of discount, free shipping and special offer coupons. Check it out. Next time you buy something online, turn your purchase into a donation, without costing you a dime.
HOW IT WORKS: Simply go to goodshop.com. In the "Who do you GoodSearch for" box, type SOLI DEO GLORIA. Then click “Verify” and you’re ready. You can choose a category of stores or merchandise, or you can click “Shop” for a list of the most popular stores. You’ll also see the deals and coupons available for each store, as well as what percentage of your purchase will go to SDG. You save, and we earn . . . nice!
Planned Giving
Bob Jones with soloist
Stephanie Blythe at
an SDG Benefit Concert
Have you thought about including Soli Deo Gloria in your estate plans? A planned gift is a great way to support SDG. Here’s what one donor, Bob Jones, has to say about his decision to bequeath a gift to SDG:
“I am anxious to leave something that will inspire future generations. It is a joy to do something that will speak of peace today and in the future. I think of sacred music as I do the very flowers of the garden: ‘Consider the lilies… Solomon in all his glory hath not the raiment of but one of these.’ We must support the finest that great poets and musicians have given us in praise of what we believe.”
—Robert V. Jones, M.D.
Click here to read Bob’s inspiring story.
We’d be glad to talk with you about planned giving options. Soli Deo Gloria also accepts contributions of stock via mail or electronic transfer. Please contact us for details.
As our former board member Tim Midura, an attorney who specializes in estate planning, puts it, “The most common reason a charitably-minded person fails to include his or her favored charities in their estate plan is simply: they just didn’t about it. Favored charities are often such an important part of a person’s life that they take on a sort of family status that I call, ‘charitable children.’ So, are you unintentionally disinheriting one or more of your charitable children."
Click here to read Tim Midura's "Charitable Children" article.
Volunteer
Perhaps the best way to tell you about SDG volunteers is to tell you about Chuck. Every Friday Chuck comes into the SDG office to volunteer his time. Though he’s a chemist by career, he is a skilled computer whiz, and he keeps our data base going almost single-handedly . . . and does the selections and edits our musical "name that tune" clips on Facebook. Click here to learn more about Chuck and his passion for SDG.
But you don’t have to be a computer whiz to help SDG! We’re equally grateful for envelope stuffers and emailers, phoners and pray-ers.
If you’re interested in learning about volunteer options with SDG, please contact us.
However, you choose to support the mission of Soli Deo Gloria, we thank you! Your gift will help us keep on creating “sacred music for a thirsty world."
We're Serious About Stewarding Your Support
"Having served on the SDG board for a number of its formative years, I have seen it to be a careful steward of its resources and a creative, even adventurous charterer of (especially) choral music 'in the Biblical tradition.'"
—Martin E. Marty, author/theologian
“There is a place for the patron of the arts to create an environment in which the great creative artists can do there work, and SDG provides an environment where the great sacred traditions can be continued in a time in which they have been overlooked.”
—Jack Firestone, SDG donor
"Soli Deo Gloria is important to the world of music, not only for the opportunities given to the composers, but for the contributions to the sacred music genre."
—Augusta Read Thomas, composer
“It’s a joy to be involved with a project that has remained alive and creative over the centuries and has actually bloomed in hard times. Some of the masterpieces of sacred music have occurred in times of fiscal crisis and war.
"Your funds will be well spent for sacred music from today’s most gifted composers and for concerts around the world. Your investment will grow in value as thousands more are blessed by the music over the years.
"We boldly ask for your support. Corners of our world have not heard great works of music that point to the Almighty. Contemporary composers of note must create works that speak in the language of this generation. Thanks for your help investing in projects that are international, timeless and honor God."
—Richard G. Gieser, former Chairman of the Board
