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Giving - Individual Opportunities

Support and Engage 

Your Contributions Make a Difference!

There are many ways to give and be involved with Portland Center Stage. Portland Center Stage is a non-profit organization and could not produce the work you see on stage and in the community without the generosity of people like you who donate. When making a donation, there are two main funds to choose from. The Armory Building Fund helps to pay for the home of Portland Center Stage: The Gerding Theater at the Armory building.  The Annual Fund gets channeled directly into Portland Center Stage and the operating costs of running a theater company.  People who donate are critical to keeping theater thriving in our lives and as a bonus receive some very special benefits and behind the scene event opportunities.

Why Give?

Your contribution, no matter the size matters to us. Donations enable us to provide extraordinary theatre, provide affordable tickets and educational outreach programs for our community, and invest in new work which keeps the theater community vibrant. Did you know that ticket sales only cover a little over half of the costs of running a professional theater company? We count on over 5,500 individuals to help raise the remaining funds needed. That is why you are so important! Please consider making a gift to Portland Center Stage. Your contributions to Portland Center Stage are invaluable to us and enrich our community. Make a gift to PCS here!

benefits and unique opportunities

Thank you for considering a gift to Portland Center Stage. In recognition of your generosity, we like to offer you a host of benefits and privileges exclusively for donors. 

 Want to join us as a Member?  Donate here!

events and unique opportunites

The following unique events and behind the scene opportunities offered at different levels give you a chance to meet fellow theater goers, actors, staff and productions crew, as well as see a part of making theater that not everyone gets to see. Reserve the dates for these exciting events on your calendar!

For additional information on these events, please contact Jessy Friedt at jessyf@pcs.org or 503-445-3744  

Ways to give

There are many ways to give to Portland Center Stage. Learn more about how to make your gift and some unique ways to contribute to the PCS family (i.e. planned gifts, business matching gifts, volunteering, stock gifts, in-kind donations, etc.).

•  Online
• Mail in a check to Portland Center Stage, 128 NW Eleventh Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97209
• Over the phone: Jessy Friedt, Donor Relations Manager at 503-445-3744
• In person: Come to the box office and make a donation in person with cash, check or credit card
• Monthly Giving Program: If you want to spread your gift out over the year, your credit or debit card will be charged the same amount each month for one year. Member benefits are determined by the amount of the total gift. You may specify any monthly contribution amount (the minimum monthly gift is $10).
• Stock gift: contact us at 503-445-3744 for our DTC info
• Sponsor a production: You can help underwrite a specific show that you are excited about.  We offer an array of customizable benefits and recognition.
• Sponsor a group of students to come see a production. We could send a class of 30 students to the theater for $500, as well as give them resource guides, after show Q&As, and pre-show student workshops.
• As a unique way to honor someone you care about, make a Tribute gift in their honor.  The person will be notified of your gift and we list all Tribute gifts in our playbill.
• Make an in-kind donation of goods and/or services.  Some examples of items to donate would be; office supplies, wine, hardware, fabric, costumes, lighting, batteries, paint, etc.
• Business Matching:  If you work for, or are retired from, one of the community-minded companies listed at the bottom of the page, your contribution to Portland Center Stage is twice as valuable. Your employer will match your gift dollar for dollar, some companies even double or triple the amount of your gift—at no cost to you!
• Your time and expertise are valuable to us too!  Volunteer with us in many of the different volunteer groups at PCS.

• Invest in our Legacy with a Planned Gift: It’s really nothing more than a gift that you make when you can afford to do so. Sometimes it’s a gift in a will or trust that is made at your death. Sometimes it’s a pledge that you satisfy over time, when times are good and you want to share that good fortune. It can even involve more complex planning, suggested by your advisors, that benefits both Portland Center Stage and your family.

  We live in uncertain times. We all want a little more comfort, clarity, certainty. That’s something good estate planning should do: create some clarity out of the chaos of wills, trusts, death, taxes. It’s also something great art can do: provide some comfort that the important things are still important, provide some love, laughter, even tears.

  What do those two apparently unrelated activities have to do with each other? We think that both are part of a bigger picture. They combine to help define a legacy, one that is left by you and by Portland Center Stage. Your legacy continues in your children, your family, your friends, your partner, the things that you hold dear and are worth supporting. Our legacy consists of providing a place where people can come together to share great art, in a beautiful historic setting. Those legacies come together through the process of planned giving.

  If you find that idea attractive and would like to know more, please feel free to call us. You can contact Jessy Friedt at 503-445-3744, and she can answer your questions directly or put you in touch with one of our experts in the area.

stories behind the people

We can learn a lot from those who are part of our theater family.  Learn about some of our many supporters in these interviews of our Portland Center Stage family.  Also, check out some of the blogs posted related to development!

"Everything you need to learn in life, you learn from theater." Get to know our donors, Mary and Don Blair

Take a look back at PCS over the years with Steve Domreis

PCS is made possible by donors like Vikki Mee and Steve Cox

Live in the moment with Ronni Lacroute

Learn to know yourself and laugh with Evie Crowell!

You did it!  You raised almost $300,000 through the Page to the Stage Campaign in May and June of 2010.  Thank you!!!Read the blog here

See the world and live! with Jean & Steve Mann

Meet long-time supporters Jean & Dennis Wilde

Get to know Claire Wheeler

Great feedback from our Donor Survey!

Read the blog here

Be amazed with Don & Jessie Adams

Meet Anna & Jeff Phelps!

Business Matching

If you work for, or are retired from, one of the community-minded companies listed below, your contribution to Portland Center Stage is twice as valuable. Your employer will match your gift dollar for dollar, some companies even double or triple the amount of your gift—at no cost to you! Ask your human resources office for a Matching Gift form. Fill it out and mail the form to:

Portland Center Stage Development Dept, 128 NW Eleventh Avenue Portland, OR 97209

If you have any questions, please contact our Development Office at 503-445-3744 or e-mail membership@pcs.org.

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Abbott Laboratories
ACE INA
Adobe Systems
The AES Corporation
Aetna
Akzo Nobel
Aldrich Kilbride & Tatone LLP
Allstate Insurance Company *
Altria Group, Inc.
American Express Co.
American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
Analog Devices, Inc.
Aon Corporation
Applied Materials *
Archer-Daniels-Midland
Argonaut Group, Inc.
Arkema, Inc.
Associated Chemists, Inc.
AT & T
Autodesk, Inc.
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
Avon Products
AXA Financial

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Bank of America
Bank of Clark County
Barclays Global Investors
Baxter International, Inc.
Becker Capital Management, Inc.
Bemis Co., Inc.
Benjamin Moore & Co.
Black & Decker Corp.
BNSF Railway
Boeing Company
BP
Brooks Resources Corp.
Butler Manufacturing Co.

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Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Calpine
Capital Group Companies
Cardinal Health **
Carnegie Foundation
Caterpillar, Inc.
ChevronTexaco Corporation
Chubb and Sons, Inc.
CIGNA Corporation
Circuit City Stores, Inc.
Climax Portable Machine Tools, Inc.
CNA Insurance
Coca-Cola Company
Cooper Industries
Corning, Inc.
Countrywide
Crown Pacific Inland Sales

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Davidson Companies
Deluxe Corporation
Deutsche Bank Americas
Dow AgroSciences, LLC
Dow Corning Corp.
Duke Energy

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Eaton Corporation
Ecolab, Inc.
Eli Lilly and Company
Equifax, Inc.
ExxonMobil

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Federated Department Stores, Inc.
First Data Corporation
First Independent Bank
FM Global
FMC Technologies, Inc.
Freddie Mac

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Gannett Company, Inc.
Gap, Inc
Gartner Group
GATX Corporation
GE
General Mills, Inc.
The Gillette Company
GlaxoSmithKline
Goodrich Corporation
W.W. Grainger, Inc.
Gramco Construction

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Hallock Modey, Inc.
Hanna Andersson
Hewlett-Packard Co.
H.J. Heinz Company
The Home Depot
Homestead Capital
Hood River Distillers
Houghton Mifflin Co.
HSBC-North America

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IBM Corporation
Illinois Tool Works, Inc.
ING
Ink Systems, Inc.
Insurance Services Office, Inc.

J
John Hancock Life Insurance Company
Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies
Johnson Controls, Inc.
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

K
Kennedy/Jenks Consultants
Key Foundation
Key Knife, Inc.
Kraft Foods

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Land O’Lakes
LandAmerica
Lehman Brothers, Inc.
Levi Strauss & Co.
Lincoln Financial Group
Logitech Inc.
Lubrizol

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Mallinckrodt, Inc.
Management Compensation Group/Dulworth, Inc.
Manulife Financial
Maritz, Inc.
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.
May Department Stores Company
Maytag Corporation
Mazda (North America), Inc.
MBank
M Benefit Solutions
McAfee, Inc.
McDonald’s Corp.
McGraw-Hill Companies
Medical Consultants Network Inc.
Mentor Graphics Corp.
Mercer Delta
Merck & Company, Inc.
Merit Oil Corporation
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
M Financial Group
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
Microsoft Corporation
Milgard Co.
Millipore Corporation
Minnesota Life Insurance Company
Mitsubishi International Corporation
Mobil Retirees
Monsanto Company

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National Computer Systems
National Instruments
NCR Corporation
Nike, Inc.
North Pacific Group, Inc.
Northern Trust, Co.

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The ODS Companies *
OVS/RP
Olin Corporation
Oracle Corporation
Oregon Mutual and Western Protectors Insurance Companies
Owens-Illinois, Inc.

P
Palm, Inc.
PepsiCo
Pfizer, Inc.
Pitney Bowes, Inc.
Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc.
PNC Financial Services Group
Portland General Electric *
PPG Industries, Inc.
Prudential Insurance Company of America

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Qualcomm, Inc.
Quest Diagnostics, Inc.

R
Radian Guaranty, Inc.
Radio Shack
Random Lengths
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RBC Dain Rauscher, Inc.
Rejuvenation, Inc.
Rockwell Collins

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Safeco Corporation
Saint-Gobain Corp.
St. Paul Travelers
Sara Lee Corporation
SBC Communications, Inc.
Charles Schwab and Company, Inc
Sedgwick, Inc.
Sempra Energy
Shaklee Corporation
Sony Corporation of America
Spiegel, Inc.
SP Newsprint Co.
Sprint Corporation
The Standard*
Stanley Works
Starbucks
The Statesman Journal
Stockamp and Associates, Inc.
Stream International, Inc.
Subaru of America, Inc.
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Symantec
Synopsys
Synthetech, Inc.

T
Tektronix, Inc.
TENNANT
Texas Instruments, Inc.
Textron, Inc.
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
Time Warner, Inc.
Toro Company
Tyco International, Ltd.

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UBS
Unilever United States, Inc.
Union Bank of California
Union Pacific Corp.
Unisource
United Grain Corp.
United Parcel Service
United Technologies Corporation
UNUM Corporation
U.S. Bancorp
U.S. Borax, Inc.
U.S. Cellular
USG Corporation

V
Vernier Software & Technology
Verizon Corporation
Via Training, LLC
VTech Communications, Inc.

W
Washington Mutual
Western Communications, Inc.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Williams Company
World Travel BTI

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