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Mrs. Brewster from Kent WA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Music On the Inside Out

My students need 42 band instruments, including bells, trombones, flutes, trumpets, and clarinets.

  • $14,773 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

Beginning Band or Fifth Grade Band is a great place to learn personal discipline, cooperation, and community contribution. My school is a high poverty school in which educational activities, like band, have kept kids coming back to school, and looking forward to the school day.

It is critical that students start in band when they are the most flexible and curious in their group participation choices, and the least influenced by what others consider acceptable. Any opportunity is a fun opportunity to a Fifth Grader. By Sixth Grade other influences, such as peer pressure, or fear of failure, creep in and rob discovery.

I would like to see students at the Fifth Grade level have the opportunity to try a band instrument during the school day without the financial restrictions of State, and Local budgets. To continue to give these students an option beyond the general music classroom offerings, my students need 10 clarinets, 10 flutes, 10 trumpets, 7 trombones, and 5 percussion kits. These instruments will give 42 low income students the chance to say yes to participating in something bigger than themselves.

Your gift to our band will help students bring the music that is hidden inside of them out. This gift will give them something to focus on that does not revolve around a gang, or getting into some unknown trouble, or watching TV until all hours of the night. When budgets are failing everywhere, it is more important now than ever to make sure children have something to do that is extraordinary. This gift can give an entire family hope and something to look forward to. Your donation will start a child off in building skills that he or she can use to teach others: technical skills of a particular instrument, personal discipline, cooperation, and community contribution.

Mrs. Brewster
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
SPK250 Student Percussion Bell Kit (Standard) • Woodwind & Brasswind $142.99 5 $714.95
ATR 213 Series Student Bb Trumpet (ATR 213-OA Lacquer) • Woodwind & Brasswind $279.99 10 $2,799.90
420 Flute (C Standard) • Woodwind & Brasswind $199.99 10 $1,999.90
TB701 Student Trombone (Trombone) • Woodwind & Brasswind $279.00 7 $1,953.00
CL701 Bb Clarinet (Standard) • Woodwind & Brasswind $279.00 10 $2,790.00

Materials cost

$10,257.75

Vendor shipping charges

$1,025.78

Sales tax

$666.75

3rd party payment processing fee

$153.87

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$12,113.15

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$2,658.98

Total project goal

$14,772.13

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$14,772.13

237 Donors

-$14,739.21

Donations toward project cost

-$12,113.15

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$2,626.06

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$32.92

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