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Ms. McPeake from Madison, WI is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Make CHMS OutSTANDing!

Help me give my students stands to hold their instruments safely and replace music stands that are no longer usable.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. McPeake's classroom raised $1,024

This project is fully funded

My Students

The students in our band are talented, creative, and use music to express themselves. We play a variety of music that focuses on our diverse population, movie and popular music, and classic band literature. Our band is open to any students grades 6-8 that would like to try an instrument. Over 1/3 of the student body plays in our ensembles.

The band program at our school allows students from different cultures, economic levels, and languages to come together and make music - the universal language.

My Project

CHMS needs two kinds of stands. A tuba stand will help growing arms, hands, and bodies hold their tubas safely and securely without having to balance it on their chairs. The other stand is one to hold music. Many of our current stands are broken, lean, fall over when music is placed on it, or can't be adjusted to the correct height. It's discouraging to not be able to see your music or hold your instrument properly.

Tuba and music stands could help our students be more confident, keep instruments and music safe, and help bring us to a new level of success!

Ms. McPeake Cherokee Heights Middle School Grades 6-8

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.

Madison, WI View local requests

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

207 students impacted 15donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
A18-MC100 Handy Tuba Rest • Woodwind and Brasswind $89.99 5 $449.95
M48 Symphony Music Stand • Woodwind and Brasswind $41.99 9 $377.91

Materials cost

$827.86

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.42

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$870.28

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$153.58

Total project goal

$1,023.86

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,023.86

14 Donors

-$595.02

Donations toward project cost

-$513.27

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$81.75

match offer

-$420.01

Match offer toward project cost

-$357.01

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$63.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.83

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$0.00

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