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Strings/Orchestra Project

My students need nine guitars for our beginning guitar class to have a class set, as well as a gong, bell set, mallets, and books.

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Mr. Ford Maynard Jackson High School

Atlanta, GA Grades 9-12

My Students

Our students are hard working teenagers who explore their passion through a variety of Arts projects. They are awesome young people who are partnering with the community for support in their Performing Arts Education.

One students persevere through some of the most rigorous academic schedules this side of education, and they still find time to enjoy the beauty and fulfillment of music making in our school.

Our students deserve the best that we have to offer in the performing arts.

My Project

We are currently asking donations of guitar and orchestral performance items to have enough instruments for students to use in class and other communities performances for students to enjoy and grow as musicians. We want to be one of the musically competing programs that prepares students for college auditions and gives them performing opportunities that they may not have had with out this program.

Students work in a collaborative groups to discuss ideas and plans to implement a successfully identify music notation and use this knowledge to learn how to play a guitar, strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion instruments.

Our students in Beginning guitar is designed for students 9th through 12 grade who have no previous experience. Students will perform a variety orchestral and solo guitar literature from levels 1. Also, students will study music theory as it relates to the technical training associated with guitar performance practices.

Our students develop their musical skills through listening, reading, writing, singing, and performing. Every week throughout the school year, students use these instruments to learn the following objectives in the strings/guitar content area: posture hand positions, tone quality, intonation, style, repertoire knowledge, syncopation rhythm, vocabulary, dynamics, balance/blend, phrasing and music theory.

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

60 students impacted 17 donors

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Atlanta, GA
Grades 9-12
Performing Arts
Music
Traditional School
Supplies
More than half of students from low‑income households

Mr. Ford Maynard Jackson High School Grades 9-12

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Atlanta, GA View local requests

More than 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

60 students impacted 17donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total

Crescent MG38-SB 38" Acoustic Guitar Starter Package, Sunburst (Includes CrescentTM Digital E-Tuner) • Amazon Business $44.95 9 $404.55

Pearl PK900C Educational Bell Kit • Amazon Business $218.49 1 $218.49

Woodstock Desk Gong • Amazon Business $40.41 1 $40.41

Essential Elements Christmas Favorites for Strings: Conductor (Essential Elements for Strings) • Amazon Business $24.99 1 $24.99

CLD Brands Music Triangles With Metal Beaters and Holders - BONUS 2 Piece Set of Extra Sticks and Velvet Carry Bag - Percussion Instrument • Amazon Business $16.50 1 $16.50

Essential Elements for Band - Book 1 with EEi: Percussion/Keyboard Percussion (Percussion Book 1) • Amazon Business $13.37 1 $13.37

Essential Elements 2000: Book 1 (Flute) • Amazon Business $8.83 1 $8.83

Vic Firth V240 Bell Kit Mallets • Amazon Business $6.92 1 $6.92

Materials cost			$747.43
Vendor shipping charges			$7.98
Sales tax			$51.57
3rd party payment processing fee			$11.21
Fulfillment labor & materials			$30.00
Total project cost			$848.19
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			$149.68
Total project goal			$997.87
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal			$997.87
12 Donors			-$497.80
Donations toward project cost			-$425.06
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$72.74
Matching donations from our partners			-$497.80
Match offers toward project cost			-$423.13
Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$74.67
Excluded support for DonorsChoose			-$2.27
Still needed View calculation Hide calculation			$0.00

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Strings/Orchestra Project

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