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Save The Music’s Strategy – Elevating the Communities that Created Pop Music

By Henry Donahue

Summary Over the past five years, Save The Music has grown and scaled our work at the community level, building on the culturally rich foundation of American music. We build community-level partnerships with local music advocates, educators, artists, and funders in places where we can invest in 30, 50 or 100+ schools over several years […]

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New Orleans Case Study

By Izzy Esparza

Since 2018, through philanthropic investment, participatory planning, and active convening, Save The Music and its NOLA partners at Artist Corps NOLA and the New Orleans Arts Education Alliance have helped jumpstart 27 new music education programs and ten additional...

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New Orleans Music Education Spring Convening 2022

By Ariel Davis

The Save The Music (STM) team joined Artist Corps New Orleans (AC NOLA) and the New Orleans Arts Education Alliance (NOAEA) in hosting a Music Education Convening on May 11 and 12, 2022. The gathering marked the first gathering since 2018, and included: – K-12...

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The power of playing it forward

By Lia Peralta

Earlier this year, the Central Bucks School District in Doylestown, PA held their annual concert to benefit Save The Music.   The show has been taking place since 2004, but in 2018, the stakes were higher—if they raised $35,000, they could fund an instrument...

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