Create Musical Equity for Every Child!
A nonprofit fundraiser supporting
Guitars in the Classroom (GITC)Empower educators throughout San Diego to teach through the Joy of Music & the Power of Song!
$1,740
raised by 28 people
$6,000 goal
Update #1
We're getting ready to roll out this campaign and hope you'll share it with friends!GITC at Nye Elementary
GITC at Lincoln High School
GITC at Ocean Beach Elementary
GITC at Logan Memorial Ed. Campus
If you know someone who'd love this cause, please share why it matters to you, and send them to our page here at San Diego Gives, and to our website at guitarsintheclassroom.org!
Every child deserves the chance to learn to make music, yet for so many, that opportunity never comes. Financial barriers and limited resources have prevented thousands of San Diego children and youth from developing basic musical abilities, skills, and self confidence. Music is essential to other learning, too. It can support social-emotional learning, speech and language development, reading, writing, math, communication skills, focus, attention, perseverance, teamwork, and so much more! But without teachers who are willing to learn to play, sing, create, and lead, young students in our region are missing out. We need to support these courageous teachers who will volunteer their time and energy in order to train with us. Because they care, their students can become music makers and highly engaged learners as part of each day.
This is exactly what happens when educators include music making as a pathway to other learning. Singing for language, literacy, and all learning works wonders.
Teachers who enroll in GITC's free classes generously offer their time and effort to become Song Leaders for Learning. Most have never had music lessons before. With your help, they can develop the necessary skills and receive ongoing free supplies, support, and continuing opportunities to learn from GITC at no charge. Ever. They deserve this. They are the everyday heroes who take music into their own hands to get it to thousands of children each year. We need your help to make this possible.
Each gift given to this campaign will support a teacher to get their own ukulele or guitar, their music book, their supplies such as straps, strings, tuners, and picks, and to receive free, ongoing, weekly group training throughout the school year!
Only with your help can we begin to re-open in-person classes and workshops in San Diego so these dedicated individuals receive the instruction, coaching, support, and tools they need to make music a part of teaching and learning this year and for years to come.
Please join with us to equip San Diego educators with the uplifting power of music this year, so they and their deserving students can experience the well-being, academic success, creativity, and joy that learning to make music makes possible.
Thank you for your consideration, support, and generosity!