What community service projects do you support, and why?

We believe that sharing music brings joy, and joy heals. Our work is very important, more important than we originally realized. A few years ago, we sang in a nursing home for some folks who hadn't heard live music for years. We had a request from a doctor who said they really needed us. After our concert, the doctor introduced our director to a lady who was smiling with tears in her eyes. He said she hadn't responded to any outside stimulation for many years, but our music had touched her.
A portion of our concert income supports community services that use joy as a tool to help the healing process, and we send contributions to the Make A Wish Foundation and the Songs of Love Foundation.
We also supported the reconstruction of the Frauenkirche Cathedral in Dresden, Germany. See Dresden contributions. When we heard the City of Dresden was raising funds for reconstruction of their bombed-out Lutheran cathedral, we wanted to help. We sang several benefit concerts around Seattle and gave portions of the proceeds from sales of our CDs. In total, we raised more than $5000 for the reconstruction and to help them overcome the effects of devastating floods that occurred just weeks after we returned to Seattle after our 2002 tour of Eastern Europe.