Business Donations

Donate as a Business

By becoming a Friend of the Lied, your business can bring the highest quality performances and meaningful education and community outreach programs to Lawrence. Additionally, an investment in the Lied Center can afford your business broad community exposure, client entertainment opportunities and a variety of marketing benefits.

All gifts to the Friends of the Lied are tax deductible and business memberships with benefits start at $100. The benefits for all levels of membership can be viewed below. To maximize the benefits to your business, consider the many benefits available at levels of giving and Join the Friends of the Lied today!

Some of the leading reasons businesses support Friends of the Lied and performing arts:

• Ensure local students with access to creative opportunities in the arts. Studies show that students who participate in the arts score higher on aptitude tests in many areas, providing more educated and creative employees in the future workforce.
• Take advantage of unique and cost effective marketing opportunities to a specified audience. VIP level Friends of the Lied benefits provide exposure through the Lied Center’s electronic sign, recognition on print and TV ads, and more.
• Provide another level of community support for Lawrence and Kansas. Access to the arts make Northeast Kansas a more rich and rewarding place to live, attracting businesses and residents to our area, enriching our economy and our lives.
• It’s fun! Business Friends of the Lied have benefits such discounts on seats, invitations to private receptions and dinners, discounted use of the Lied Center meeting space and more. What a great way to enhance the lives of your employees and your own VIPs.
• Increased employee loyalty. Studies show that when employees know their business gives back to their community, there is an increase in employee retention and loyalty.

Matching Gifts: Are you an employer who matches contributions? Call 785-864-2788 here for more details.

For questions or further information, contact Megan Poindexter, Director of Development at 785-864-2788 or meganp@ku.edu

How does my gift make a difference?

There are many reasons why you should invest in the Lied Center. Here are just a few!

The Lied Center and performing arts have impact on our community and our community members.

• Economic Impacts— Economic growth— studies show that access to the arts aid communities in recruiting new residents (including faculty recruitment for KU) and bringing revenue to the community (through merchants, restaurants, hotels, gasoline stations, government, etc). For more information click here.
• Social/ Community Impacts— According to Jonathan Fanton, the President of the MacArthur Foundation, “There is no better indicator of the spiritual health of our city, its neighborhoods, and the larger region than the state of the arts. The arts deepen our understanding of the human spirit, extend our capacity to comprehend the lives of others, allow us to imagine a more just and humane world. Through their diversity of feeling, their variety of form, their multiplicity of inspiration, the arts make our culture richer and more reflective”.
• Educational Impacts— Access to the arts for students— studies show that students who experience the arts enjoy more success in the classroom, in reading, language, mathematics, thinking skills, social skills, motivation to learn. The arts create a positive school environment. For more information click here.

• Individual Impacts— Being a Friend of the Lied affords you many enjoyable opportunities to experience performing arts. Depending on the level of giving, your benefits can include:
• access to personal, intimate interaction with artists
• opportunities to engage with your fellow patrons and lovers of arts during receptions, dinner and exclusive events
• advantages of priority seating, early ticket purchase, discounts and reserved parking

Lied Center Programs
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