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Mr. Bernhard from Lansdowne PA is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Let's Ukulele!

Help me give my students reliable stringed instruments so that they may experience music in a fun and independent way!

  • $997 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

My school consists of over three hundred K-7 students in the greater Philadelphia region. This charter school is in its fourth year of operation, with a majority of students being first or second-generation citizens of African descent. While a majority of our population comes from low-income conditions, each individual is embraced as a catalyst to their own excellence.

Such diverse cultural, economic and internal backgrounds help to shape a penetrating and diverse community at Vision Academy, giving students unique opportunities to share and expand their perspectives through music.

My Project

Learning a stringed instrument is the most enlightening and demanding musical task students can take on. Help them experience high-level learning by providing them with quality ukuleles, which will be used in general music and select ensembles.

Mid-elementary students will apply these instruments to formal performing and fundamental note-reading, while our youngest students will experience them through lessons about timbre, pitch range and culture.

In all cases, these instruments will provide unique, space-saving opportunities for students to develop aural skills and to understand cultural dynamics. Students with instrumental experience demonstrate high levels of concentration, school attendance, academic performance and social sensitivity. Thank you, greatly, for your support.

Mr. Bernhard
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
MU40 Soprano Ukulele • Woodwind and Brasswind $29.99 23 $689.77
PCGU 5-29.99 24 MONTH ADH REPLACEMENT PLAN • Woodwind and Brasswind $4.99 23 $114.77

Materials cost

$804.54

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.07

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$846.61

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$149.40

Total project goal

$996.01

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $996.01

5 Donors

-$864.11

Donations toward project cost

-$804.11

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$60.00

match offer

-$50.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$81.90

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 $0.00

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