By Jessica Anne Baron | Executive Director
Hello, Dear Music Supporters!
We're very excited to share that our work is about to launch in Los Angeles County, and we need your help to make it happen! Child development teachers and caregivers of all kinds who serve anywhere in L.A. County can begin free training in making music with young children beginning on December 5, 2026. We are providing two workshops, serving up to 70 teachers and trainings will continue in the county throughout 2027.
GITC was awarded a one-year grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to spread our work to more communities over the next 13 months. We have funds to train teachers thanks to the NEA, but it’s up to us to provide the instruments. Your gifts can make a big difference! Every teacher needs their own leadership ukulele and it’s up to us to supply them with help from caring donors like you.
Thanks to a productive new partnership with the Child Care Alliance of Los Angeles (CCALA) whose affiliated agencies and programs provide comprehensive child care and early learning services and programs, reach providers, families, and children at a grass-roots level in multiple languages, and have the cultural competencies and strong understanding of their unique communities to work effectively with their diverse clientele, the word of these trainings will reach teachers and caregivers next week!
It would be immensely helpful to receive your support in order to purchase enough indestructible ukuleles to equip all 70 participants. Each one costs our organization $53. Our total goal is $3,710. It’s a big lift, but after 26 years of service, we can attest to the fact that each of our modest gifts, put together, can get the mission there. Your generosity now will absolutely bring music to early childhood learning for children five years old and younger in the coming year!
Thank you so much for standing with Guitars and Ukes in the Classroom to light up early learning with the joy and power of making music!
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