Your support directly aids the award-winning Cincinnati Song Initiative in its mission to promote and innovate the song genre.

Join for exclusive benefits from $25/month.

Learn about our national training program and how you can support it!

Make a gift in any amount to support our world-class artists.

You make up the foundation of our work, helping to fuel our programming and the artists who make the music happen. We simply can’t do it without you.

As our thanks for being a sustaining supporter of CSI’s mission ($300/year or more), enjoy the following benefits:

  • An exclusive invitation to our annual Friends of CSI thank-you concert for you and a friend

  • A semi-annual Friends of CSI newsletter from our Artistic Director

  • Acknowledgement in our concert programs and online

  • One Mainstage concert every season sponsored by the Friends of CSI

  • Personal invitations to special events with artists

  • BRAND NEW! Secure your spot with early bird registration for Song Connect events.

Thank you to the 2023-2024 Friends of CSI

  • David Adams

  • Nancy & Jeff Barrad

  • Brianna Bragg & Chris Palladino

  • Mary Kay Buehler

  • Katie Kolepp

  • Margo Garrett

  • Elizabeth Castro Greenberg & Ronny Michael Greenberg

  • Kenneth Griffiths

  • Wendy Hill

  • Rhoslyn Jones

  • Mona & Richard Kerstine

  • Lori Laitman & Bruce Rosenblum

  • Rita Larkin

  • Donna Loewy

  • Amanda & Isaac Martin

  • Linda McAlister & Brandon Cohen

  • Sherry & William McGraw

  • Elaine Meyerhoffer

  • Patrick Miller

  • Mary Mulder & Jim Martin

  • Nicolette & Adam Rader

  • Kseniia Polstiankina Barrad & Simon Barrad

  • Kenneth Shaw

  • Stephanie & Nick Temeles

  • Jean & Terry Theman

  • and several anonymous friends

Other Ways to Give

Call our staff to make a donation over the phone. Brace yourself for delightful conversation.

Call Artistic Director Sam Martin: (610) 762-9538
Call Development Associate Sarah Farwell: (515) 231-1677‬

Nothing beats good old-fashioned snail mail. We promise to have as much fun opening your check as you had writing it.

You can make it out and mail to:

Cincinnati Song Initiative
203 E 8th Street, Suite 3
Cincinnati, OH 45202

If you are at least 70 ½ years old, you can make a distribution to CSI from your IRA without paying income taxes.

Please contact the financial institution holding your IRA assets.

Cincinnati Song Initiative is a 501(c)(3) organization, EIN 81-0918211. Your donation is tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.