World Children's Choir
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The World Children's Choir (WCC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
whose goals are to provide a musical alternative for achieving world peace
and to create a better home for everyone's children to grow up in. The Choir was founded by Sondra Harnes in March 1990 who is also the Choir's Artistic Director
and Chief Executive Officer
.
The choir headquarters is in Annandale, Virginia
, and it serves the Northern Virginia
area of Washington, DC. The choir seeks to provide opportunities in performing choral music to its culturally diverse young members. Economically disadvantaged children in the area are a primary focus of the choir as it strives to provide a broad musical appreciation that might not otherwise be available to the children who need it. Most of their concerts are benefits for causes such as UNICEF, the National Children's Defense Fund, and CARE. The choir has performed at venues ranging from Carnegie Hall
to the White House
.
Non-profit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
whose goals are to provide a musical alternative for achieving world peace
World peace
World Peace is an ideal of freedom, peace, and happiness among and within all nations and/or people. World peace is an idea of planetary non-violence by which nations willingly cooperate, either voluntarily or by virtue of a system of governance that prevents warfare. The term is sometimes used to...
and to create a better home for everyone's children to grow up in. The Choir was founded by Sondra Harnes in March 1990 who is also the Choir's Artistic Director
Artistic director
An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company, that handles the organization's artistic direction. He or she is generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogul, since the organization is generally a non-profit organization...
and Chief Executive Officer
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...
.
The choir headquarters is in Annandale, Virginia
Annandale, Virginia
Annandale is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 41,008 at the 2010 census, down from 54,994 in 2000 due to the splitting off of the western part of it to form Wakefield and Woodburn CDP's.-Geography:...
, and it serves the Northern Virginia
Northern Virginia
Northern Virginia consists of several counties and independent cities in the Commonwealth of Virginia, in a widespread region generally radiating southerly and westward from Washington, D.C...
area of Washington, DC. The choir seeks to provide opportunities in performing choral music to its culturally diverse young members. Economically disadvantaged children in the area are a primary focus of the choir as it strives to provide a broad musical appreciation that might not otherwise be available to the children who need it. Most of their concerts are benefits for causes such as UNICEF, the National Children's Defense Fund, and CARE. The choir has performed at venues ranging from Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
to the White House
White House
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
.