Ukrainian classical musicians support fund
REPORT FOR THE PERIOD 18.03 - 3.04
Hi. Kyiv Contemporary Music Days speaking.
On March 18, 2022, we created the Fund for Support of the Ukrainian Academic Music Community for the time of the full-scale military invasion of Russia into Ukraine.
Here we publish a report on the first two weeks of the fund's work.
1. ACTIVITIES AND PROCESSES
Briefly on what the KCMD team did to ensure the effective operation of the Fund
1.1. FUNDRAISING: THE UNPLAYED CONCERT
Together with the team of the Unplayed Concert, KCMD organized a charity online concert of prominent Ukrainian classical musicians who left their homes due to the war.
We broadcasted the concert from the empty main stage of the Lviv National Philharmonic.
About 65% of the donations collected by the Fund took place on the day of the concert and in the next three days after.
THE UNPLAYED CONCERT STREAMING PARTNERS
We are grateful to each and every person who works in the organizations that became broadcasting partners of the charity concert:
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Österreichische Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Musik
Moldovan National Youth Orchestra
EUYO - The European Union Youth Orchestra
Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival
1.2. FORMING THE FUND BOARD
To ensure that the Fund's decisions are balanced and applications are considered democratically, we have set up a board to evaluate applications and agree on assistance. We also have built the board's work processes.
We are grateful to each member of the working group for their willingness to invest their time in the work of the Foundation.
The members of the board are:
Oleg Bezborodko, composer, associate professor of the Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music of Ukraine
Yurii Chekan, musicologist, professor of the Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music of Ukraine
Francisco Morais Franco, guitarist, Portugal, co-founder of KCMD
Darko Horvatic, clarinetist, Croatia-Austria, co-founder of KCMD
Junia Makino, violinist, Japan, co-founder of KCMD
Nazarii Stets, double bass player, Ukraine
1.3. PROCESSES ADJUSTMENT
In the first days of the Foundation's existence, we dealt with, among other things, the following:
Ensuring the legal aspects that enable NGO KCMD to accept and to make donations.
Establishment of mechanisms for receiving the contributions in three systems – payments via SWIFT, WayForPay (payment via Visa and Mastercard), and PayPal.
Development of a system of communication with donors.
Development and deployment of a system for receiving, sorting, evaluating and accounting the applications and transmitting them to the board.
Development and deployment of a communication system with musicians whose applications have been evaluated.
Deployment of the financial accounting system.
2. DONATIONS
A little about the scale of support provided to the academic music community of Ukraine in the first two weeks of the Fund's existence.
CONTRIBUTIONS VALUE:
12086 EURO
OR 386773 UAH
NUMBER OF CONTRIBUTIONS — 220
AVERAGE CONTRIBUTION — 55 EURO OR 1758 UAH
The amounts are as of April 1, 2022 and are approximate. Contributions received in euros were automatically converted according to the exchange rate at the time of accrual. The formula we used for the statistics is UAH 32 for EUR 1.
DETAILS
WayForPay payment via Visa, Mastercard
Funds are sent directly to the account of Kyiv Contemporary Music Days NGO
Number of contributors — 124
Collected amount — EUR 6812 or UAH 217990
Funds are sent directly to the account of Kyiv Contemporary Music Days NGO
Number of contributors — 7
Collected amount — EUR 237 or UAH 7600
Funds are sent directly to the account of Kyiv Contemporary Music Days NGO
Number of contributions - 5
Collected amount — EUR 1642 or UAH 52544
Funds are sent directly to the PayPal account of one of the co-founders of Kyiv Contemporary Music Days NGO
Number of contributions - 84
The amount approved and transferred by PayPal — EUR 3394 or UAH 108608
Amount of payments "on hold" that have not yet been transferred by the system and are awaiting confirmation or verification by PayPal (we do not include this amount in the statistics until it is approved by the system) — EUR 1863 or UAH 59616
REQUESTS FOR SUPPORT
A little about the requests from the representatives of the Ukrainian academic music community (received as of March 28, 2022).
REQUESTS RECEIVED – 300
STATS
The stats are in Ukrainian. You can download the file and translate it via Google Translate.
Applications_Needs_Analisys.pdf4. APPLICATIONS EVALUATION AND PROVIDING SUPPORT
Having launched the Fund, set up internal processes, joined the fundraising project, received the first donations and accepted the first 300 requests for support, we are moving to the next phase — applications evaluation.
The members of the board are already assessing the applications, and the KCMD team have already contacted the first musicians that have been approved to get the support.
If you have sent us a request, please expect an email from us between April 3 and 8.
WHAT'S NEXT?
The main thing is that we continue to accept donations: the funds raised so far will be enough to support 100-130 applicants, which is a third of the requests we received.
There are a few ways you could help the Fund:
2. Spread the word
It would be helpful if you find an opportunity to spread the information about the Fund to individuals and institutions — in Ukraine and abroad — that can help us by spreading the word further and by contributing.
Materials that may come in handy:
3. Organize charity projects, raise funds and donate them to the Fund
Do as we did with the Unplayed Concert!
See you in two weeks! That's when we will publish the next report.
Yours, KCMD Team
ABOUT KYIV CONTEMPORARY MUSIC DAYS
From December 11, 2015, to February 23, 2022, we have been holding festivals, concerts, lectures, workshops, produced educational videos, and developed an ecosystem of contemporary academic music in Ukraine and around the world.
Our projects in collaboration with more than 30 partners took place in Kyiv, Lviv (Ukraine), Lisbon (Portugal), and Mishima (Japan), and were attended by musicians from 20+ countries—from the United States to Australia and Japan.
Extract from the Ukrainian state register of legal entities, in Ukrainian
QUESTIONS? PROPOSALS?
Please contact us: hello @ kcmd.eu