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Mrs. Sanford from Gulfport, MS is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Music Brings a Smile

My students need a viola.

  • $443 goal

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Would you like to bring a smile to a child from poverty? Would you like to bring joy to a child who came to you with tears in her eyes asking you to help her get an instrument so she could learn to play, because her mother could not afford to buy her one? Of course you would. That is why I am asking you to help, so she can have an instrument and many others like her that could never afford an instrument.

I am a counselor at a school that is made up of 70% minority and 93% poverty-level students. We have a strings program in our city for 4th –12th grade students. At our school we offer strings for the 4th and 5th grade students. Our instructors say that the students at our school make the most dedicated musicians, because the students know that this opportunity may be their way out of poverty.

If you choose to buy a viola for us, we would keep the instrument in our school so many children could learn to play each year. You could not only make a difference in one child’s life, but many children’s lives.

This could be their key to the future-a chance to go to college on a music scholarship. Going to college does not happen very much in this population, but you could make this dream happen for these children. You can bring hope to a child once again. We appreciate all you can do for us.

Mrs. Sanford Pass Road Elementary School Grades 3-5

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Gulfport, MS 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

1 student impacted 16donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Model 3/10 Viola Outfit (13 Inch) • Woodwind & Brasswind $325.99 1 $325.99

Materials cost

$325.99

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $22.82

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.89

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$362.70

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$79.62

Total project goal

$442.32

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $442.32

12 Donors

-$442.10

Donations toward project cost

-$362.70

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$79.40

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.22

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 $0.00

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