Supporting KACP's College-Ready Musicians

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Verified Non-Profit

The Description

In an effort to ensure as many of our students as possible continue to study music in high school, and ultimately college, KACP's music program has grown significantly in the last year. This growth has meant a significant increase in cost for new instruments. Our goal of $1,500 would help us to cover our final month of instrument rentals so we can end this year financially strong and ready to grow into the future.

For example, the rental costs for our bass clarinets, like the one Ricardo is playing here costs $2,520 for the year.

And the rental cost for our Baritones sets us back $5,400 per year.

This is important to our students because access to a truly exemplary education, which includes quality arts instruction, helps to close the gap between our students and those with traditionally more opportunities.

Your contribution would mean that we would be able to continue offering our students access to excellent instruments at virtually no cost to them. These funds would help us to cover roughly one month of instrument rental fees for our band and guitar program. 

Back Up Plan

To ensure our students have access to the instruments they need to receive an exemplary education, we are have other fundraising avenues. We sell popcorn several times a year to raise funds, and we're launching a test-run of a new fundraiser in the fourth quarter. We are also in talks with our administration and our district in an effort to negotiate a budget for 2019-20 which will allow us to meet our rigorous goals. If we are not able to fully fund  this $1,500 goal, we will use every penny that we do raise to pay toward our instrument rental fees.

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About the Creator

I teach band, guitar and general music at KIPP Austin College Prep on Austin's North Side. I am passionate about bringing quality education to under-served students, because they deserve it.

Investments (5)

$20

Levi Mason

5 years ago

$20

Mike Wallace

5 years ago

$20

Samantha Berry

5 years ago

$30

Kelley T Glover

5 years ago

$10

Joyce Allen

5 years ago