Music Workshop

“Text 1- form 990, part iii, line 1 - music workshop's mission is to educate, inspire and motive k-8 students through relevant and culturally responsive music and humanities education. Music workshop creates and provides an innovative k-8 music education program that any teacher can access and teach, regardless of their means, locaiton, or level of expertise. Our program is build on the concept of "open education", a global movement that delivers high-quality online education to schools and students worldwise, free of charge. By offering educational materials directly to schools and students, music workshop empowers teachers with the necessary resources to enrich their curriculm. Recognizing that music education often focuses on european cultures, music workshop launched its culture series. In the last 36 months, we've developed seven new courses, including navtive american tradtl music, latin american,caribbean music, and south american, and tradtl music from the african continent and music from the continent of asia. These courses provide students with a sense of belonging when their cultural heritage is positively integrated into their academic learning. For all students, classrooms that implement culture-based strategies have demostrated improved emotional well being, stronger relationships with adults, a deeper sense of belonging at school, and enhanced motivation, self-esteem, and ethnic pride. Music is an ideal starting point for culturally responsive teaching as it transcends cultures and offers a universal experience. In total, music workshop offers 31 free-of-charge courses to participating schools, highlighting music history and appreciation across various musical subjects, including genres, instruments, careers, and music from diverse cultures. To date, we have educated over 5 million students in 12,000 schools across all 50 state and 99 countries.”

“Text 2 - music workshop's course content is dynamic, multimodal, and exciting. It aligns with national and state education standards. Our goals are to inspire students to appreciate the arts, motivate them to play an instrument, and teach them ways to incorporate music into their lives. Through music workshop courses, we provide tools that empower youth and promote their creativity, social development, and self-worth. We intentionally expose students to a broad spectrum of music so they become inspired to choose their own musical paths.”

“Form 990, part vi, line 2 - related party information among officers: amy richter, director mary stein, treasurer - mother/daugther”

“Form 990, part vi, line 11b - organization's process to review form 990 during board meeting”

“Part vi, section c, line 19: the organization files an annual report with the oregon charitable activities section of the oregon department of justice with irs form 990 attached which is available to the public.”