Help me give my students the tools they need to make music together!
$518 goal
This project expired on May 10, 2023.
This project expired on May 10, 2023.
My Project
These are pieces of equipment that the students need to play music can be a burden for a family to obtain. These are things that most families, it is hoped would be able to purchase on their own. At the school I teach, nearly half of the students are on free and reduced lunch meaning that their family as a whole makes less than $40,000 a year.
It is the saddest thing for me as a music teacher when a student wants to play a musical instrument to become part of the community and explore music making with the class but they think they can not simply because their family does not have enough money.
I do what I can to get my students the tools they need, but I need to have the equipment in the first place to give them. If a student doesn't have a reed or pair of mallets I will do everything I can to provide the equipment for the students. Especially in these trying times, music is the thing the students can fall back on and know that they are part of a safe community.
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
180 students impacted
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