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Mr. Cotton from Los Angeles, CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Chiming in a New Concert Band Year

My students need a set of bar chimes to perform music we have selected for concert band this year.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Cotton's classroom raised $231

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.

My Students

Our school band program was dying and I was hired to pick up the pieces and grow the program back to prominence. We have grown from 5 to 120 in just two years. My students are African-American and Latino in an inner-city, socioeconomically depressed area.

Our school was opened to give students of color the opportunity to have a superior education and lift them, along with the neighborhood, up.

In the first decades of the school's opening, the band became one of the most noted in the nation. Many Jazz greats began in our school. However, as drugs and budget cuts hit the school and community, the band program began to suffer. We are dedicated to bringing our band program back to the prominence it once enjoyed and give our students experiences in all types of music; classical, jazz, and popular. These students are dedicated to our quest and have grown the band in size and ability in a short amount of time. We are now focusing on replacing worn and broken instruments and adding new to help the band flourish.

Our students are currently enjoying concert band, jazz band, and popular music studies.

My Project

As our band continues to grow, we have to continuously add to our set of auxillary percussion in order for us to keep up with the demands of today's composers for concert band. Wind Chimes can tend to be expensive, but are a staple of the color pallette used by composers for our student's ability level. Having a set of bar chimes, or wind chimes as they are most often referred as, will allow us to successfully perform music written for concert band that is at our ability level. They also provide a sense of polish and professionalism to a performance.

Mr. Cotton Alain Leroy Locke College Preparatory Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

300 students impacted 16donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
23-Bar Double Row Chime • Woodwind and Brasswind $149.99 1 $149.99

Materials cost

$149.99

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $13.72

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.25

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$195.96

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$34.58

Total project goal

$230.54

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $230.54

14 Donors

-$110.05

Donations toward project cost

-$99.55

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$10.50

match offer

-$113.42

Match offer toward project cost

-$96.41

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.01

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$7.07

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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