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Charities/ foundations
VH1 Save The Music
“The VH1 Save The Music Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to restoring instrumental music education in American public schools, and raising awareness about the importance of music as part of each child’s complete education. Since 1997, the VH1 Save the Music Foundation has provided $43 million worth of new musical instruments to more than 1,600 public schools in more than 100 cities around the country, impacting the lives of more than 1.2 million public school students.The VH1 Save The Music Foundation helps develop long-term, sustainable instrumental music programs that provide children with equal access to music education regardless of their financial situation. Through strategic partnerships with school districts, the Foundation provides brand-new musical instruments to public elementary and middle schools, jump-starting dormant music programs across the country. The school districts commit to funding certified music teachers’ salaries, providing maintenance and supplies, and scheduling instrumental music classes during the school day; the Foundation maintains a partnership with the district until instrumental music is in place in every school.
The VH1 Save The Music Foundation is dedicated to restoring instrumental music programs to ensure that all children have access to a complete education. In the communities with which we grant, we work at the district level, from the top down. If a need for instrumental music education exists, we look to the superintendent and school board for a commitment to restore music in every school within a district. With a common goal of fully rebuilding, community partnerships are created and instrumental music education is brought back to life.”
This foundation was founded in 1997 as a public affairs iniciative of VH1 and since then has done and unbeilivable amount of work for struggling music programs in public schools. I think this is one of the best music related foundations out there. With so many budget cuts in schools, music programs have gone out the window, and the equipment is nonexistent.
Music programs can be essential to a child’s growing process because it not only introduces them to creativity, but also teaches them critical lifelong skills such as persistence, the ability to work with others, and passion.
Parterned with VH1, and sponsered by other musicians on their channel, the Save the Music foundation recieves alot of publicity; but it is never enough. They need contant support and donations. Their purpose is to reintroduce and provide instramental education to children all over the country; that is a cause they will constantly be working toward, and one that is not very easy, but will be beneficial to children everywhere.