Team up with Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras to help local students play on

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Students at seven local public schools get the priceless gift of coaching from professional musicians via the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras‘ Southwest Seattle Strings Project. If needed, the students can borrow instruments for free from Seattle Public Schools. But the ability to assist stops there, which means it stops short of providing badly needed supplies such as replacement strings, chin rests, shoulder rests, rosin, and method books. So a modest donation drive is under way right now – explained in this clip:

SYSO hopes to put together a supply basket worth more than $1,000, with the assistance of the discount at Hammond-Ashley (mentioned in the video), for each of the seven local schools with which it partners – Arbor Heights, Concord, Highland Park, Roxhill, Sanislo, and West Seattle elementaries, and Denny International Middle School. You can help build the baskets by chipping in a bit here.

Jim P December 1, 2015 (9:46 pm)

“P2G Administrative Fee 7% $525”??

Holy crud, was going to donate until I saw that. Someone’s making a mint off off this.

Put up a gift list on Amazon and let people order stuff without someone siphoning off enough to buy a starter violin or two.

WSB December 2, 2015 (12:45 am)

I’m no big fan of fees – as a small business, we see a chunk of revenue go to the companies that process payments, credit cards, PayPal, etc. OTOH they provide a service for that and so does a company like the one that handles this. I just looked up charity administrative costs online and many seem to be well into double digits. Also, looking at the donations page on this campaign, it looks like people are choosing to pay the fee plus what they intended to donate. Thanks for thinking about donating, anyway. I’m sure SYSO has an address if you want to consider just sending them a check … we got to cover some of the activities a couple years ago and it’s great to see the mentors working with the kids. – TR

Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras December 2, 2015 (11:05 am)

Thank you Jim P for your comments. We understand your concern. However, Power2Give provides a matching fund which is $2500 if the project is full funded and helps us to reach more people. The Amazon gift list sounds like a great idea, too. Thank you for your input. If you’d like to support the young music lovers in public schools and not to worry about the fees, please go to http://www.syso.org. Thank you again for thinking about SYSO and the kids we serve.

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