Action Guides
- Write a letter to your local school board about the positive influence of arts in your education experience
- Ready, Set, Teach! Start a tutoring program at your school.
- Sign up for text messages about volunteer opportunities
- Start a peer mentoring program at your school.
- Host a movie screening of Chops
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- Identify key supporters of music education and build relationships with them
- Organize an awareness campaign about music education
- Perform at local commuter hubs during peak commuting time
- Start an awareness campaign about your cause at your school or in your neighborhood
- Organize a Poetry Slam
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- Use your skills! Volunteer as a music teacher.
- Arrange for your school music program to perform at school board meetings regularly.
- Organize a letter writing campaign
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- Wear a button on your jacket or bag to publicize your cause
- Use benevolink for all your shopping
- Personally invite local government officials/representatives to a school concert to demonstrate the importance of music/theater
- Create program inserts highlighting the benefits of music education for your school concerts and area arts centers.
- Write an op-ed on the value of music education for your local newspaper
- Organize an instrument collection drive for a music program in your area
- Create a general information
- How to write a petition in support of music education
- Start a Do Something Club at your school
- Organize a Benefit Concert for your cause
- Start a blog or video blog about your cause
- Write to an elected official asking them to support music education
- Shop and donate to Do Something automatically!
- Organize an Art Show to support your cause
Easy Ideas
- Invite community leaders to your concerts, or arrange performances at PTA meetings or even City Hall.
- Turn a local performance into an "informance" by having interesting music facts placed inside the concert programs.
- Educate your friends at school with your new knowledge on the importance of arts in education.
- Have an old violin collecting dust in the attic? Donate it to your local school.
- Old music lying around? Donate sheet music to your local school or Salvation Army.
- Run for a position in your student council and make your voice count.
- Attend your local school board meetings to speak up for your interest in arts and education or raise awareness at your school.
- Play a video game that gives back: head to www.gamesthatgive.net
- When you donate to an organization, find out where the money goes and make sure the organization supports your values.
- Ask your local TV and radio stations to publicly recognize local music programs and advertise music events throughout the year.
- Sponsor an essay contest for students to write about why music is important to them. Ask a newspaper to print the winning entry.
- Spread the music. Give your old CD’s to the Salvation Army or your local school.