BACKGROUND Located within the boundaries of the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington state, Wellpinit is a small rural town of approximately 2,100 people. The overall unemployment rate is 25.84% and the poverty rate is 32.7%, both more than double the national...
For the past 18 years, The ASCAP Foundation has been donating their Music in the Schools Package, provided at a discounted rate by Alfred Music, to accompany our Core Instrumental Music Grants. The ASCAP Foundation’s donation includes a full set of music method...
Together with Zaytoven, Audiomack, and Zay Area Foundation, we delivered our first Keys + Kids Piano Grant in Atlanta, GA to Benjamin E. Mays High School. Principal, Mr. Richard Fowler, opened the assembly by talking about how it is the job of educators to ignite a...
In May 2018, Sound United launched the Sound Start Foundation, with an ambitious goal to donate 10,000 instruments to children worldwide by the 2020-2021 school year. In the first few months of this partnership, the Sound Start foundation and Save The Music delivered...
A product of Newark Public Schools music education, Wyclef Jean was the perfect guest to help us celebrate our music technology pilot program at Barringer High School in Newark, NJ. Attendees included superintendent, Roger León, who emphasized the importance of music...
To celebrate one of the pilot programs for the Music Technology Grant, Taylor Guitars artist, Juke Ross, led a masterclass at the High School for Public Service in Brooklyn. He performed his hit, “Colour Me,” along with a cover of the Backstreet...