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Mr. Hemmo from Tucson, AZ is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Us Upgrade Our Guitars

Help me give my students instruments for next year's Guitar Courses. We have full enrollment and hope to retire a few old and unusable instruments.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Hemmo's classroom raised $1,058

This project is fully funded

My Project

Sahuaro High School is a hub in the Tucson Unified School District for guitar studies. Next year we will have full classes of hard practicing guitarists. This project will help us to replace some aging and unplayable instruments with well built, long lasting, instruments suitable for years of use. Yamaha guitars offer an affordable instrument that students can use at all levels of instruction.

These instruments will be put into rotation and used by hundreds of students.

The quality of these guitars will allow use for numerous years without replacement.

Mr. Hemmo Sahuaro High School Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Tucson, AZ View local requests

More than half of 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

150 students impacted 12donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Yamaha GigMaker Classical Guitar w/ Gig Bag and Tuner • Amazon Business $199.99 4 $799.96

Materials cost

$799.96

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$57.20

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$899.16

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$158.68

Total project goal

$1,057.84

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,057.84

10 Donors

-$756.53

Donations toward project cost

-$700.28

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$56.25

match offer

-$233.98

Match offer toward project cost

-$198.88

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$35.10

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$67.33

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$0.00

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