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Mr. Visco from Capitol Heights MD is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

String Together Great Music

Help me give my students additional opportunities to join our young and growing orchestra program!

  • $448 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 students range in age from 4th grade up to 8th grade (about 9 to 13 years old) and either have me as a band director or an orchestra director. Most of them join my program with little to no experience on a musical instrument and spend these years developing fundamental skills of music.

These hardworking young musicians come from families with low economic means, making it difficult to acquire the materials needed for such classes.

However, despite this, my band and orchestra members are eager to learn new skills and are always very excited to play a musical instrument. I am always working on ways to provide the most enriching experience I can in the hopes of opening new doors for my students' futures.

My Project

This past year I created a brand new orchestra program at my school, and we have almost no instruments in our inventory. I was pleasently surprised by how many students were eager to join this new program, and unfortunately with a small inventory it was hard to meet that demand. We found ways to help a few students get instruments, but we have an ambitious goal of growing into a full sized program! To do that, we need to expand the amount of instruments we are able to provide students.

These violas is just the first step in my goal of growing the size and strength of my band program.

Thank you for your generous help and support of my students as we work together to build this orchestra program!

Mr. Visco
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Prelude Series Viola Outfit • Woodwind and Brasswind $159.99 2 $319.98
VP-08 Standard Bow Rosin • Woodwind and Brasswind $1.99 3 $5.97

Materials cost

$325.95

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$19.56

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.89

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$380.40

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$67.13

Total project goal

$447.53

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$447.53

6 Donors

-$438.71

Donations toward project cost

-$380.40

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$58.31

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

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$0.00

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