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Grant Partners

BRITISH COLUMBIA & NORTHWEST U.S.

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Student singers and string players posing for a photo.
Coquitlam, BC
$45,000 to support the Phoenix Choral Experience, a school-year-long opportunity to spark conversation about cultural learning and curiosity amongst teachers and students through teacher workshops, in...
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Tacoma, WA
$45,000 to support the School Residency Program, in which students work with teaching artists of the global majority and explore the meaning of community through singing and song composition...
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Deanna Gestrin leads drumming and singing with participants of the VYC KINDRED program
Vancouver, BC
$50,000 to support Vancouver Youth Choir's Indigenous Music Education Program, which addresses Truth and Reconciliation initiatives in Canada and builds cross-cultural understanding by providing...

CENTRAL APPALACHIA

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Harrogate, TN
$45,000 to support a partnership between Lincoln Memorial University's Arts in the Gap Program and the after-school choral club at Ellen Myers Elementary School, providing access to the full diversity...
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Augusta Artistic Director Emily Miller leads children in song
Elkins, WV
$50,000 to support Augusta Heritage Center's World Music Singing Course for all elementary school students in Randolph County, engaging them in a group learning project that fosters cross-cultural...
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Mt. Sterling, KY
$45,000 to support One Voice: From Appalachia to the World, which will revive the regional Gateway Community Youth Chorus for students in grades 3-5 and host residencies with 10 diverse teaching...
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Woman singing and playing the guitar.
Bristol, TN
$40,0000 to support a partnership between the Mountain Empire Children's Choral Academy and the elementary students of Unicoi County, Tennessee, which will be planned and implemented by culture...
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Children from Surry County singing together
Mt. Airy, NC
$40,000 to support Surry County Sings, a weekly after-school program for 5th grade students and teaching artists exploring the diverse singing traditions of their community, including the...
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Voices in the Laurel students sing together
Lake Junaluska, NC
$40,000 to support Harmony Rising, a cross-cultural exchange of music and art activities celebrating the cultural diversity of Haywood County, North Carolina, which will include workshops...

SOUTHWEST U.S.

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Chorus director and group of students posing for a photo.
Albuquerque, NM
$45,000 to support Coro Lux's partnership with Albuquerque schools to engage young people via its El Faro Youth Chorus. With its dedication to both choral musicianship and trauma informed principles...
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Children sing a concert at the US-Mexico border wall
Bisbee, AZ
$50,000 to support the Bi-National Arts Institute Naco Music School, a singing program in Naco, Arizona USA and Naco, Sonora Mexico schools. Youth will present music together at the international wall...
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Students wearing holiday headbands and singing.
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000 to support the expansion of choral music education programming within Harmony Project's established and emerging in-school partnerships with the Lawndale Elementary School District, Los...
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Students smiling while singing and clapping their hands.
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000 to support the launch of Youth Chorus  LA , a community-based, free, after-school, educational choral program that aims to harness singing’s unique capacity for expression and connection to...
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Maria Ellis leads a group of students singing together in Phoenix
Phoenix, AZ
$40,000 to support Phoenix Boys Choir's partnership with Creigton ESD, which embeds trauma-informed social emotional learning and celebrates students' heritage by integrating culturally relevant music...
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Students in a classroom facing each other and clapping hands.
Phoenix, AZ
$40,000 to support Phoenix Children's Chorus's Adaptive Choir, a new offering designed to embrace individuals with varying levels of musical experience, physical abilities, and cognitive functions in...
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Albuquerque, NM
$40,000 to support Sing Together, which will connect students with global music traditions and highlight the music native to the American Southwest. Pen pal relationships with partnering schools in...
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Students in a classroom playing with scarves.
San Diego, CA
$40,000 to support the San Diego Children's Choir's partnership with local Title I elementary schools, engaging more than 800+ Universal Transitional Kindergarten (UTK)-3rd students who identify as...
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A student singing.
Palmdale, CA
$45,000 to support SNS Desert Youth Voices, which will address the absence of accessible group singing opportunities in middle schools across the Antelope Valley. Rooted in diverse repertoire...

UPPER MIDWEST

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Border CrosSing education participants sing together
St. Paul, MN
$45,000 to support ¡Dale!, Border CrosSing's Latinx choral music workshops and performances for middle school and high school students. With a focus on process, these teaching artist-led school...
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Children singing in ComMUISCATION's after school program
St. Paul, MN
$50,000 to support ComMUSICation’s school partnership choir programs in St. Paul schools with a focus on developing students' socio-emotional and leadership skills, musical skills, and sense of...
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Young children watch singers attentively
St. Paul, MN
$45,000 to support COMPAS teaching artists from culturally and racially diverse backgrounds engaging students in musical performances and singing-based residencies that promote cross-cultural exchange...
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Students rehearse during the Festival of Voices
La Crosse, WI
$40,000 to support Festival of Voices, a week-long program featuring guest clinician Julio Morales and culminating in a final large-group performance to increase culturally rich and affirming music...
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G. Phillip Shoultz III
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000 to support Singing from the Heart, a partnership between VocalEssence and Longfellow Alternative High School, which provides opportunities for parenting and pregnant students and their...