In early 2016, OrchKids was awarded a generous 5-year, $500,000 challenge grant from the Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Family Foundation. The terms of the grant stipulate that the BSO and OrchKids must raise $100,000 annually through December 2020 from Baltimore’s African-American community; all dollars are matched by the Brown Family Foundation with the goal to raise $1,000,000 to support OrchKids. If you would like to be a part of this amazing challenge, please click here.
Dorothy Zenilman loved music and volunteered much of her time escorting school age children to opera performances and concerts in New York City. She visited her family in Baltimore often, and was a great fan of Maestra Marin Alsop. In her younger years, Dorrie also cherished her summers away at camp, in Maine. To honor her memory and incorporate all of the things Dorrie loved, Jonathan (Dorrie’s son) and Carol Zenilman have created a special fund that helps send OrchKids students to the prestigious summer music program at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in northern Michigan. If you would like to be a part of making an OrchKids’ dream come true, please click here: