We are currently offering a "Founder" membership to those of you who wish to jump start us out of our infancy and assist us in providing services to community and professional handbell ensembles. Rest assured we will get there, but much faster with your help.  Your tax-deductable founding membership fee of $50.00 will be applied toward your first year of dues-for-services membership when it becomes available. And you will be listed as a "Founding Member" on this web site (unless you request anonymity).  Please consider getting in on the ground floor as we work to move community and professional ensembles, and ultimately, the handbell instrument itself, forward. Join today!

We greatly appreciate your support during our startup phase, and we look forward to working with you to expand the art and scope of ringing around the world!

Benefits

ICPHS was formed to meet the specific needs of all community and/or professional handbell groups by assisting in their education, broadening their knowledge base, increasing their network of contacts and resources, and enabling them to expand their programming and music performance for greater visibility and profitability.

This means, as our organization grows, we expect to offer many programs that you and your group will find useful.  Some of these programs we envision include:

• Access to clinicians to improve your group according to your specific goals
• Assistance thru grants and group-rate negotiation to services your group needs, such as travel discounts
• Access to experts in the areas of legal, publicity, grant writing, and other services that your group requires.
• Educational programs that will build both our ringer population and our audience.

Of course, as a brand new organization, we can't possibly offer all these things today.  But we hope, with your support, that these programs will come on line sooner rather than later.   Remember, your founding membership will apply against your first year of membership for services dues!

What Can We Do For You?

As ICPHS grows, we hope to provide you with many of the services listed under benefits.  But even today, ICPHS is building several data bases that will be of use to you now.   Make sure you check out and/or sign up for our Ringer Exchange Data base,  our Clinician Data Base, and our Networking Data Base.   One of our most important functions is to assist com/pro groups in accessing the resources already in our community.   As we build our organization, this is one of the services we can provide right away.

What We Need From You 

ICPHS is all about YOU.   In order to serve you as best we can, we need your active participation.  Please sign up for our Clinician, Ringer, and Networking Data Bases.  Please become a founding member.  Please talk about ICPHS and our goals to expand our programming and music performance for greater visibility and profitability to everyone you know who might support our cause.

Check out our "Wish List" under "News", and see if you or your friends might be able to help us.

Finally, please let us know any ideas you have for promoting our cause, or programs we might offer.  We are here to serve you.   Just drop an e-mail to anyone on the Committee and let us know what you're thinking.