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Mr. Austin from Junction IL is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Mallets for Marching

Help me give my students marching tenor and bass drum mallets for marching band!

  • $464 goal

This project expired on May 23, 2020.

This project expired on May 23, 2020.

My Students

Our district is a county-wide, pre-k through 12th grade school, comprised of students from eight neighboring towns. There is an unmistakable small town feel when you enter our building. The support from our community is unbelievable! Our district's music program for band and choir was cut approximately nine years ago due to unfortunate budget cuts. Over the past few years, the majority of the remaining musical equipment has disappeared.

After not having a music program for nearly nine years, our district restarted the program from scratch in January 2019!

With the support of our community, we have been able to raise some funds to purchase items that are desperately needed to run the program. We have around 120 fourth through twelfth grade band students and around 35 junior high and high school choir students! We are all working so hard to make this program amazing once again!

My Project

In our school district, we have more interest in percussion instruments than any other instrument from our fourth through twelfth grade students. We have a large marching band and have very old, outdated materials to use. As we are trying to raise funds for new instruments and materials, we have been fortunate enough to get some new-to-us marching instruments.

These marching tenor and bass drum mallets will enhance the performance of our students and help create a better sound during marching season!

With your donation, our students will no longer worry about dropping a drum stick during parades as these sticks have loops to keep them attached to their arms!

Mr. Austin
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Corpsmaster Groove Series Mallet • Woodwind and Brasswind $41.65 7 $291.55
Corpsmaster Groove Series Mallet • Woodwind and Brasswind $33.58 2 $67.16

Materials cost

$358.71

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.38

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$394.09

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$69.55

Total project goal

$463.64

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