Bring Musical Learning & Joy to Students in 2025!

Dear Friend,

As we head into a new year filled with changes that portend to include massive budget cuts to the Arts and public education, your tax-deductible gift, matched, will make it possible for GITC to sustain our free, much-needed music programs and services for students and teachers in 2025. In this matching campaign, each donation between now and December 31^st will receive a match starting at 100%, and progressing down to 50% when we reach the halfway point, and 25% when we get to the last matching funds. So early donors will receive the full dollar-for-dollar match!

Your donation will allow us to supply training, materials, coaching and supervision for teachers, staff, and classrooms from preschool through high school, in California and 40 other states!

With your support, GITC programs can continue to equip and empower everyday teachers to teach through the joy of music, supporting students to improve their academic progress, and develop positive collaborative skills and social-emotional resilience. GITC will continue to give classes, workshops, and classroom residencies, in person and virtually, even when the chips are down. We'll keep supplying free or reduced cost instruments, too even though tariffs will make instruments more expensive. We are determined to work with our manufacturer sponsors to find a way forward!

This is the time to plan, pivot, build for tomorrow, and move ahead with joy and determination. As always, our board members and staff heartily welcome your input, suggestions, and good will. Now, for the first time, with this special campaign, you can make one simple donation, then let us know if a particular program is how you wish us to allocate your gift. The choices are built in. There is no red tape, and your dollars will roll right into services and supplies delivered.  With your end of year donation:

• Hundreds of educators who are new to GITC will start their musical journeys with us online and in person.
• Hundreds more will return for sequential instruction, coaching, and programmatic support in their schools and communities.
• Thousands of students in general and special education classrooms will sing, play, and write songs each day as part of learning and getting along.
• Medically fragile, disabled, and hospitalized students and their teachers and parents will get adaptive music training to improve learning and quality of life.
• After school, students of all ages will access free music clubs in economically challenged communities.
• Our work can grow regionally, bringing access to new communities while sustaining our work in established districts.

Please help us keep the doors open for anyone serving in education and their students. With help from this caring community through the winter, spring, summer, and fall, all anyone will have to do is call, and we'll be there, yes we will. (Thank you, Carole King.)

Together, let’s find and sing our way through the changes ahead and help more people than ever tap their passion, strength, creativity and resilience through the irreducible power of music.

Thank you for your solidarity with us working toward the day when every child, teacher, and classroom has the art of making music as an important resource for teaching, learning, building community and supporting student wellness.

With my heartfelt appreciation and gratitude in our 25th year of service,

 GITC · Mailing Address: 1286 University Avenue #389, San Diego CA 92103 · 619-840-1010 · https://www.guitarsintheclassroom.org/[email protected]