Playing For Change Day
Los Angeles, California, United States | SELF
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Playing For Change is a multimedia movement created to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music. The Playing For Change Foundation (PFCF) was established in 2007 and is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization.
Our mission is to create positive change through music and arts education. We support music schools and programs that are created and operated by the local community and then purposefully connect those communities around the world.
To date, 8 music schools and programs have been created in countries including South Africa, Ghana, Mali, Rwanda, and Nepal. 600 children participate in regular music instruction. We have plans to expand several of our existing programs and to partner with new local programs worldwide in 2012.
Guiding Principles for our projects include:
? Using Music to Transform Lives and Communities: Caring adults encourage discipline, joy, and personal expression through music and arts programs. Programs emphasize tolerance and shared understanding as methods for solving problems.
? Connecting People and Communities: Cameras and other technology empower individuals and communities to tell their own stories. Children in different countries and schools learn about and get to know peers who live in dramatically different regions and circumstances.
? Economic Empowerment: We use local materials and labor when building, utilize local teachers and administrative staff, provide living wages, and create opportunities for earned income through performances and creating costumes, instruments, and art for sale.
? Local Leadership: Programs are led and affirmed by local village and community leaders.
Operations. We have two full-time staff members and more than 30 contract workers who teach in and administer our programs. In 2010, our operating budget was $661,504 and we ended the year with a surplus of more than $20,000. The 2011 operating budget is $849,156. We have a 14-member all-giving Board of Directors.
Contact. For more information, contact Associate Director Elizabeth Hunter at elizabeth@playingforchange.org or directly at 828-250-0660. - Playing For Change Foundation
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Bio
By helping children learn and express themselves through music, the Playing For Change Foundation provides a creative alternative to the struggles many young people face each day.
To date, eight music schools and programs have been created in countries including South Africa, Ghana, Mali, Rwanda, and Nepal. We are planning to expand several of our existing programs and to partner with new local programs worldwide in 2012.
Each of our schools and programs offers students the mentorship and guidance they need to grow and thrive through interaction with other students, schools, teachers, and musical cultures, transcending barriers and borders.
Participation
• inspired the passions of people around the world to create events
• represented a wide range of ages, ethnicities, nationalities, and backgrounds
• offered PFCF supporters and newcomers a way to engage in the foundation’s
work and to “play for peace, education, and change”
Funds
• raised enough money to fund our four programs in Nepal for one year
• helped fund our teachers in three schools in Africa, which serve more than 400 kids every week as well as some of the costs to run those schools
• helped fund the purchase of additional instruments for all programs
Knowledge
• an incredibly valuable learning experience for the foundation about how to make the next PFC Day event even better
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