From: Denise Gagne
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 11:08:45 -0600
Have you heard of Save the Music? I don’t know the rules, but they fund instruments for needy classrooms.
And Donors Choose.
Denise
Denise Gagne
tvmusic@telusplanet.net
Musicplayonline.com / Musicplay.ca
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> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 22:05:10 -0500
> From: PW Alexander
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> Subject: [MK8] funding for private school classrooms
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> Does anyone teach at a private school? I'm in desperate need of instruments
> and materials and don't know where to turn. All I have right now is what I
> have personally bought or made over the last 31 years at public school. I
> have searched the web. It always winds up saying has to be a public school
> on free lunches, etc.... This is a small Christian school and the kids are
> NOT wealthy, barely middle income in a rural community, plus they have to
> pay tuition and do fund raising for the school to be able to run. I don't
> know where to look. I'm also afraid I used all my cards in this county when
> I asked for donations to the public school from which I just retired! I
> can't even use my DonorsChoose funds because they don't allow private
> schools to receive them! I've taught with nothing before and I know I can
> again, but some Orff, drums or rhythm instruments would be great!
>
> Thanks.
> *´¨)
> ¸.·´ ¸.*¸ ¸.·`¨)
> (¸ . ´ (¸. · * ynne
>
> Wynne in MS
> NBCT
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> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 23:49:28 -0400
> From: Barb
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> Sorry, but I lack ideas for your funding. Until you get $ to buy - Folgers coffee tubs, etc., make serviceable drums. I think there was an article / someone’s list of “free†or very cheap materials to use in music classes in MK8 archives a good while back. Do the Sunday school classrooms have anything you could borrow?
> Good luck!ðŸ€
> Barb
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>> On Jun 15, 2021, at 11:05 PM, PW Alexander wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone teach at a private school? I'm in desperate need of instruments
>> and materials and don't know where to turn. All I have right now is what I
>> have personally bought or made over the last 31 years at public school. I
>> have searched the web. It always winds up saying has to be a public school
>> on free lunches, etc.... This is a small Christian school and the kids are
>> NOT wealthy, barely middle income in a rural community, plus they have to
>> pay tuition and do fund raising for the school to be able to run. I don't
>> know where to look. I'm also afraid I used all my cards in this county when
>> I asked for donations to the public school from which I just retired! I
>> can't even use my DonorsChoose funds because they don't allow private
>> schools to receive them! I've taught with nothing before and I know I can
>> again, but some Orff, drums or rhythm instruments would be great!
>>
>> Thanks.
>> *´¨)
>> ¸.·´ ¸.*¸ ¸.·`¨)
>> (¸ . ´ (¸. · * ynne
>>
>> Wynne in MS
>> NBCT
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> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 23:49:28 -0400
> From: Barb
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> Sorry, but I lack ideas for your funding. Until you get $ to buy - Folgers coffee tubs, etc., make serviceable drums. I think there was an article / someone’s list of “free†or very cheap materials to use in music classes in MK8 archives a good while back. Do the Sunday school classrooms have anything you could borrow?
> Good luck!ðŸ€
> Barb
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jun 15, 2021, at 11:05 PM, PW Alexander wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone teach at a private school? I'm in desperate need of instruments
>> and materials and don't know where to turn. All I have right now is what I
>> have personally bought or made over the last 31 years at public school. I
>> have searched the web. It always winds up saying has to be a public school
>> on free lunches, etc.... This is a small Christian school and the kids are
>> NOT wealthy, barely middle income in a rural community, plus they have to
>> pay tuition and do fund raising for the school to be able to run. I don't
>> know where to look. I'm also afraid I used all my cards in this county when
>> I asked for donations to the public school from which I just retired! I
>> can't even use my DonorsChoose funds because they don't allow private
>> schools to receive them! I've taught with nothing before and I know I can
>> again, but some Orff, drums or rhythm instruments would be great!
>>
>> Thanks.
>> *´¨)
>> ¸.·´ ¸.*¸ ¸.·`¨)
>> (¸ . ´ (¸. · * ynne
>>
>> Wynne in MS
>> NBCT
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> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 09:25:14 -0400
> From: Helen Clark
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> I also teach in a small private Christian school with zero resources or instruments. Very similiar environment to what you are describing. With all the stimulus funding floating around, I keep hoping that music departments, public or private, could benefit, but nothing so far.
> Any input from members would be greatly appreciated on this subject!
> Thanks,
>
> Helen Clark
> Baltimore, Maryland
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>> On Jun 15, 2021, at 11:05 PM, PW Alexander wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone teach at a private school? I'm in desperate need of instruments
>> and materials and don't know where to turn. All I have right now is what I
>> have personally bought or made over the last 31 years at public school. I
>> have searched the web. It always winds up saying has to be a public school
>> on free lunches, etc.... This is a small Christian school and the kids are
>> NOT wealthy, barely middle income in a rural community, plus they have to
>> pay tuition and do fund raising for the school to be able to run. I don't
>> know where to look. I'm also afraid I used all my cards in this county when
>> I asked for donations to the public school from which I just retired! I
>> can't even use my DonorsChoose funds because they don't allow private
>> schools to receive them! I've taught with nothing before and I know I can
>> again, but some Orff, drums or rhythm instruments would be great!
>>
>> Thanks.
>> *´¨)
>> ¸.·´ ¸.*¸ ¸.·`¨)
>> (¸ . ´ (¸. · * ynne
>>
>> Wynne in MS
>> NBCT
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> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 09:46:19 -0400
> From: Susan Torrie
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> Check with your local school district. Sometimes they have money for
> private schools in the area. That was how I got my 30 Ukuleles, a classroom
> set of Boomwhackers, drum sticks and 30 Home Depot buckets for Bucket
> drumming.
> Check into the music departments in the public schools in your area.
> Sometimes they do a clean out of their old instruments maybe you can get
> something out of that.
> Also look into fundraising for your music department.
>
> Good luck on your search.
>
> Susan Torrie
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> On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 9:25 AM Helen Clark
> wrote:
>
>> I also teach in a small private Christian school with zero resources or
>> instruments. Very similiar environment to what you are describing. With all
>> the stimulus funding floating around, I keep hoping that music departments,
>> public or private, could benefit, but nothing so far.
>> Any input from members would be greatly appreciated on this subject!
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Helen Clark
>> Baltimore, Maryland
>>
>>> On Jun 15, 2021, at 11:05 PM, PW Alexander wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anyone teach at a private school? I'm in desperate need of
>> instruments
>>> and materials and don't know where to turn. All I have right now is what
>> I
>>> have personally bought or made over the last 31 years at public school. I
>>> have searched the web. It always winds up saying has to be a public
>> school
>>> on free lunches, etc.... This is a small Christian school and the kids
>> are
>>> NOT wealthy, barely middle income in a rural community, plus they have to
>>> pay tuition and do fund raising for the school to be able to run. I don't
>>> know where to look. I'm also afraid I used all my cards in this county
>> when
>>> I asked for donations to the public school from which I just retired! I
>>> can't even use my DonorsChoose funds because they don't allow private
>>> schools to receive them! I've taught with nothing before and I know I can
>>> again, but some Orff, drums or rhythm instruments would be great!
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>> *´¨)
>>> ¸.·´ ¸.*¸ ¸.·`¨)
>>> (¸ . ´ (¸. · * ynne
>>>
>>> Wynne in MS
>>> NBCT
>>> |=============================================|
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