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Ms. Patricia Betcher from Philadelphia, PA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Guitar Mounts For Our Classroom

My students need wall mounted guitar racks for the guitars we purchased last year. Right now they're stored in boxes and bags, which takes time for them to take out, & bump the pegs.

  • $439 goal

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My Students

Urban Education is a lively, upbeat, energetic environment. While so much pressure is on test scores, Student Learning Outcomes, and benchmarks, the focus of artistry has often been lost. Students crave music and have limited opportunities to learn due to forgotten funding of the Arts.

My students are creative, talented, eager to learn, collaborative workers.

They look forward to new ideas, and they sing and dance every moment a jam comes through the speakers. Creativity is the highest form of understanding. They want to know how to create music like the masters of our time. The skills used in playing a musical instrument have been proven hundreds of time to increase test scores, literacy, math skills and so on. It's time our school brings back music through instrument study!

My Project

My students come by the classroom at the end of the day and want to pick up a guitar for a quick moment before leaving to go home. The wall mounts will provide them a quicker way to access the guitars. We will have a set that will be mounted on the wall where they can pick up, play, and then put away without damaging the pegs.

These guitars will serve our students' ambition to serve our community.

With these guitars, students will have an enhanced learning environment of hands-on music making. Students will learn the discipline is takes to become more than a beginning musician. Students will further their skills by writing, creating, and performing music through the guitars to younger schools, community centers and families of the community.

Ms. Patricia Betcher Parkway West High School Grades 9-12

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Philadelphia, PA View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Pro-File Wall Mounted Guitar Rack • Woodwind and Brasswind $169.00 2 $338.00

Materials cost

$338.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.07

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$373.07

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$65.84

Total project goal

$438.91

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $438.91

9 Donors

-$216.10

Donations toward project cost

-$189.38

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.72

match offer

-$216.11

Match offer toward project cost

-$183.69

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$32.42

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$6.70

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 $0.00

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