Help At-Risk Teens Develop Musical Skills & Hope!

Happy Fall, Friends. This continuing campaign provides free after-school musical learning for at-risk high school students who are eager to learn! Your gifts of any amount help Guitars in the Classroom provide an instrument for learning and life for teens living at or below the poverty level who participate in our free guitar clubs in under-served communities. Their challenges and burdens are great, but learning to play guitar, sing, and compose music with other students lightens their burdens, relieves anxiety, and gives them a creative and productive outlet for self-care, connection, and employment skills. Often, it builds or restores their sense of promise and possibility. Our internship program can help them take next musical steps after high school.

The free after-school guitar clubs, called “Strummers Clubs” provide students persevering through hardship with restorative instruction, a safe learning community, and positive, creative fellowship. They develop real musical skills to last a lifetime and launch a healthier future. These services exceed what school districts can provide.

Thanks to discounts from our instrument manufacturer sponsors, and gifts from individual donors, every student receives a beautiful instrument they can call their own. Since 2022, we have tripled our clubs, and we plan to do more. With your caring support, GITC will move forward to reach hundreds more at-risk youth through musical learning in the months and years ahead.

Your tax-deductible donation can build these students dreams so they can work toward making them come true. A wide range of guitar and music-related professionals are willing to help us build workforce pathways into potential future employment. Becoming a rock star is reserved for the determined and amazing few, but music is a big industry supported by professionals developing products, marketing, retail services, and so much more. In addition to all the music jobs associated with performance, concert production, and touring, other possibilities also include work in music products engineering, design, and manufacturing, musical recording, music production, promotion, music for television, film and radio, music technology, music sales, and for those who love to teach, music education in its many forms! Your support of this project will empower high school students to discover ways to make music a part of their futures.

Please help us reach these goals by making a donation to this fundraiser today.

From all of us working and volunteering with Guitars and Ukes in the Classroom, thank you for giving. We're in this together.

With love and appreciation,

Jess Baron

Founder, Executive Director