Donations

The American Guild of English Handbell Ringers is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the musical art of handbell/handchime ringing through education, community, and communication. Please help us by making an online contribution to the Guild. No gift is too small.
 
The American Guild of English Handbell Ringers is an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Your gift to the AGEHR is 100% tax deductible to the fullest extent provided by law. Your gift can go to support any of the following funds.

Endowment Fund

  • The AGEHR Endowment Fund provides resources to benefit AGEHR research and education projects.

Scholarship or Award Funds

  • The W.D. McKeehan Scholarship Fund, which provides scholarship opportunities to AGEHR's national events

  • The William H. Griffin Scholarship Fund, which provides scholarship opportunities for participants to attend AGEHR's Distinctly Bronze events

  • The D. Linda McKechnie Scholarship Fund, which provides assistance to help elementary school children with special needs who are interested in handbell/handchime efforts

  • The Marilyn Kielniarz Memorial Scholarship Fund, which provides a scholarship for a music educator to attend AGEHR's National Seminar

  • The Educational Scholarship Fund, which provides scholarship opportunities to AGEHR events

  • The Donald E. Allured Original Composition Award Fund, which encourages the composition of original handbell music exemplifying the highest standards and quality (awards made at the discretion of the Allured Award Committee)

  • The Vivienne Rigby Memorial Fund for English Change Ringing, which helps ensure the continuation of a course in English change ringing at future AGEHR National Seminar events and to support other programs about change ringing
more about these funds...

Young ringers participating in
AGEHR's National Seminar

Operating Fund

  • AGEHR Operations provides funds for educational outreach, national membership efforts, events planning, and general operational expenses.

    The AGEHR Operating Fund supports, among other programs, the National Exemplary Handbell/Handchime Award.
     
  • AGEHR Annual Campaign

Woodson Handbell Choir, a recipient of the National Exemplary Handbell/Handchime Award.

Planned Giving--AGEHR Legacy Society

Deferred or planned gifts provide their benefits at a later date. In fact, estate-planning gifts are particularly important to the guild right now to insure long-term financial stability of our educational events and programming.

We invite you to become a member of our Legacy Society. Membership in The American Guild of English Handbell Ringers' Legacy Society is open to anyone making a commitment of support for the guild through his or her will, life insurance policy, or other planned giving method.


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If you are making your contribution by check, please print this form and mail, along with your payment, to:

AGEHR, Inc.
1055 E. Centerville Station Rd.
Dayton, Ohio 45459.

(For Canadian and International donors: AGEHR cannot currently accept foreign checks, even those in U.S. funds, for amounts less than US$100.00. Payments for less than US$100.00 should be made by credit card.)

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As we complete the transition to our new website, paying on-line with a credit card is currently not available. We hope to have this feature corrected soon and apologize for any inconvenience. Please call the AGEHR office at 1-800-878-5459 for assistance with your transaction if you wish to use a credit card.


If you have questions, please call the National office at (800) 878-5459.

 

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