Incentive giving campaign winners.

Congratulations to the North Dakota Music Teachers Association (NDMTA), Mississippi Music Teachers Association (MMTA), and the California Association of Professional Music Teachers (CAPMT) for winning the MTNA FOUNDATION FUND State Incentive Giving Campaign. The campaign is based on individual members giving to the FOUNDATION FUND during the preceding calendar year.

Categories 1 and 2 are based on the percentage of members contributing. NDMTA won Category 1, with the highest percentage of members making a gift: 20.25 percent of the members contributed during 2005. In Category 2, 10.36 percent of MMTA members made a donation of $25 or more. Categories 3 and 4 are based on dollar amount contributed. In Category 3, CAPMT members gave $8,657 to the general fund. In Category 4, CAPMT members contributed $8,982 to the general fund and endowment funds combined.

State associations rounding out the top five in each category are Nebraska, Maine, Oklahoma and Mississippi (Category 1); Maine, Arkansas, Nebraska and Alaska (Category 2); Texas, Ohio, Virginia and Washington (Category 3); and Nebraska, Texas Washington and Pennsylvania (Category 4).

The MTNA FOUNDATION FUND thanks all the state chairs and others who work diligently to promote and support the FOUNDATION in their states.