Six hundred students will have access to music education and instruments, allowing them to enrich their lives through music.

Give 3,000 students access to music education

Summary

Teachers in public schools with limited or no music programs receive specialized training and free instruments to give kids lessons on playing and composing in the musical styles they love. progress report read updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Little Kids Rock operates in schools having no music education or in schools in which the music teacher wishes to rejuvenate the music curriculum. We serve public schools where 50% or more of the students qualify for the free or reduced-price lunch program. We awaken the creativity that supports learning and self-discipline in academically, socially and economically at-risk students through music. Students gain a strong sense of accomplishment and self-worth as they develop their musical skills.

Activities

Public school teachers are supplied with musical instruments, equipped with curricula, and trained to use our methods to teach music in their schools. Students learn to play instruments at an accelerated pace, and compose and perform original songs.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £51,042
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £21,383
Total Funding Goal: £72,425

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

LKR puts music education back in public schools so all children have the opportunity to enrich their lives through music. Children who participate in music instruction develop skill-sets that prepare them for higher education and adulthood.

Project Message

“Helping students build self-esteem and creative expression have always presented great challenges to educators. LKR provides a major vehicle. The [behavioral] changes in my students are amazing.”
- Valerie Haskell, Teacher, Lawton Elementary School, San Francisco

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Dave Wish,

116 Greenwood Avenue
Montclair, New Jersey 07042
United States
(973) 746-8248
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organisation

Little Kids Rock, Inc.
632 Pompton Ave. Suite 2
Cedar Grove, New Jersey 07009
United States
(973) 746-8248
http://www.littlekidsrock.org

Learn more about Little Kids Rock, Inc. and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in United States and can also be found under Children.

For more information about United States, read the Human Development Report on United States or the Wikipedia entry for United States.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on July 23, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 27, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

Your gift is rockin’ overtime on June 16th – 150%

By Gina Sideris - Development Officer, June 14, 2010 02:07 PM

Dear Rockin’ Supporters,

http://littlekidsrock.org/therain.html

These are our kids at a school that had NO music program whatsoever. It's an original song by the kid who is rapping. He was a gang member and well on the road to dropping out of school to a life on the streets. NOW...he is at school every single day. Why?

Music – it has transformed his life.

Thanks to your help Little Kids Rock is now reaching over 54,000 underprivileged students nationwide with free musical instruments and lessons.

We love this work, and we are so grateful to you for helping to make it happen.

Our challenge is to raise $914,000 to reach 75,000 kids by year’s end – only $12.19 per student, so please support changing a kid’s life – or a group of kids.

Wednesday June 16th is a special day to ring out the school year and make your donation increase its impact. Global Giving is making a 50% match of any gift you give by visiting our link http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/music-education/

Please take advantage of this special opportunity to leverage your gift and help put music back where it belongs -- in our schools!

Keep on Rockin’,

Little Kids Rock

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