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You cannot imagine how important this is to us!! We are stunned by your generosity and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the recognition that dance is important to our children! In these challenging times you have sent a powerful message that the arts are relevant to our lives and are crucial to a well rounded education.

We were resigned to the possibility of losing this program (and we have been dancing with The Joyce for 23 years!) with great sadness. Then word came that we were funded. It was uplifting and if only you could have heard the cheers of the students! The feeling of jubilation is infectious and sorely needed these days. You have made that happen and the contribution of dance is one whose impact is lifelong.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Words are truly inadequate to express the joy we feel at being able to express ourselves through dance. We can truly "ReJoyce!"”

With gratitude,

Mrs. Alperstein

I would like to thank all the donors that contributed to my class project with the Nano Touch Ipod. I started this dance program six years ago with very little equipment. The Ipod has definitely enhanced how I teach my class. It saves so much time in changing music while teaching. With this Ipod I have the ability to save music for future references. I have also saved a lot of money on purchasing and burning CDs.

I have created a tremendous collection which I intend to continue to build in order to serve future students. I cannot thank you enough for your donation and how important it is to my students to feel appreciated. Your donations have helped my classes achieve their goals in a more timely manner.

Thank you once again for your generosity and for helping my students who have a strong desire to succeed in life. I hope you continue with your donations to help many other students who I am sure will benefit from your generous actions. ”

With gratitude,

Mrs. Johnson

Thank-you so much for your generosity towards my students and my music program at my school. We are a low income school and the current unemployment rate has hit our students' families very hard. This trombone came just in time.  One of my young students was struggling to move the slide quick enough to play the new faster music.  (Eighth notes)  I stopped by to see the problem... and unfortunately her trombone slide was rusted!  The trombone she was playing on was about 30 years old and had been used by many students.  I tried to get it sanded down, but the rust was too bad!  Your donation is allowing her to continue playing, and she is doing great with her brand new trombone!

Please continue to support this wonderful website in helping deliver needed resources to our countries schools. The donations from people like you have greatly impacted my teaching on a daily basis. My school cannot afford to give me a budget to supply instruments, music, or repairs. Everything I do is through fund-raising at my school, grants, and this wonderful website”

With gratitude,

Ms. Jazo

By funding this project, I have been able to get my children actively engaged in learning. They enjoy singing and dancing to educational tunes. My ESOL students have been able to make connections between the music and English Language Arts skills.

Having the IPod and docking system as made it much easier for me to organize the music into categories which is easier to access rather than thumbing through and loading CDs. Being able to do this has helped transitions also because I'm not limited to staying near the computer to switch or turn off the music, I can easily do so with the use of the remote control.

I can not thank you enough for supporting the educational system with your contributions.”

With gratitude,

Ms. Shepard

Since I wrote my application for the new keyboards, we have succeeded in creating four piano classes of ninth graders and one guitar class (10th grade) which also uses the pianos to learn music theory. With your kind donation we have purchased three new Yamaha keyboards.

As I expected, my classes are more efficient and focused because EVERY student is able to play. In the photos you can see, from top left, Marienelli, Kiana and Noemi playing the new pianos, and myself teaching a class how to play the chords to a "C" blues (Ike and Tina Turner's "Three O'Clock in the Morning Blues.") In that photo, a new Yamaha PSR 223 keyboard is in the foreground. Please note that Marienelli, Kiana, Noemi (top row) and Victor, Angie and Danny (bottom row, also playing "C Blues" on the new keyboards) all wrote you letters to express their appreciation. I've created a challenging list of tasks for the students this semester, including reading Alfred's Adult Piano book #1, solfege and interval identification on the keyboards, writing their own song or version of familiar songs like "La Bamba" and "When the Saints Go Marching In" with left hand chords and right hand melodies. Students will also play in small group ensembles, and those with the most creative original compositions or improvisation skills will perform at our Spring Concerts.

To achieve in these endeavors, it's absolutely crucial that students have ample time on the keyboards to learn scales and intervals and connect the sounds to what they hear as they attempt to create their own music as improvisation or compositions. That's why your donation is so important.

It's hard for me to fully express my gratitude to you: let me just say that you embody the idea that we're all connected, and you have become part of our community by contributing to the musical growth of these students. Once again, many many thanks from myself and my students. Yours truly, Colin P ”

With gratitude,

Mr. Pohl

I wish I could personally thank each and every person for his or her generous donations to my project. Words are unfortunately an inadequate means of fully expressing my sincere gratitude. I am extremely excited and encouraged to see so many people value reading and share my vision.

With these picture books, my students' whole reading curriculum will change by implementing the Reading Workshop. They will be taught comprehension skills through the use of picture books. They will learn standard-based lessons covering point of view, theme, visualizing, predicting, inferring, summarizing, questioning, etc using an actual author's work. Their lessons will become interactive, think-aloud lessons that will engage students and improve comprehension. Our main focus it to keep the students interested in reading during this crucial period. Your donations will dramatically increase my students exposure to great authors they may otherwise not have read. Reading can inspire children to accomplish so many things!

Thank you again for the gracious outpouring of donations for my class. I am certain my excitement will be shared by my class as well.”

With gratitude,

Mrs. Lynch