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Ms. Davies from Durham NC is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Music Makes Us...

Help me give my students the gift of music with their own Yamaha Recorder!

  • $1,192 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Project

At our school in Durham, NC, music makes us better friends, learners, dreamers, and better humans!

The impacts of COVID-19 were clearly seen here during the 2021-22 school year with students and families working to overcome the loss of loved ones, less access to already limited resources in the community, lost learning time, and a lack of social engagement with peers.

Regardless of these barriers, our students came to school with curious minds and open hearts, and were excited to be back with their friends and teachers! Unfortunately, restrictions from the pandemic still limited our ability to learn music through movement, playing instruments, composing together, playing games, and singing joyfully.

This year, with families still recovering from the impact of the pandemic, expecting every student/family to have the ability to buy an instrument is just not equitable. It would be amazing to have instruments for students so that we can continue and BUILD upon the musical joy that filled our hearts last year. Thank you, Donors Choose!

Ms. Davies
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Yamaha YRS-24B Plastic Soprano Recorder, Natural • Amazon Business $9.99 90 $899.10

Materials cost

$899.10

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$70.13

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.49

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,012.72

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$178.72

Total project goal

$1,191.44

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,191.44

6 Donors

-$941.44

Donations toward project cost

-$800.22

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$141.22

Matching donations from our partners

-$250.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$212.50

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.50

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$0.00

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