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Here's how your gift transforms lives.
The People’s Music School provides opportunity and widespread access to the benefits of music through our completely tuition-free model.
Through intensive instruction and performance, our students achieve excellence in music that transfers to other areas of life. They grow musically, socially, emotionally, and intellectually and develop a foundation of responsibility, self-esteem, resilience, and purpose.
Your gift will help our students reach their full potential and relieve our long waiting lists so that more children can gain access to the transformative benefits of a high-quality music education.
Since 1976, our work at The People’s Music School has fostered and sustained an environment in which the arts benefit everyone in our community. Our mission in fact compels us to deliver access to the benefits of the arts, that our students might grow not only musically, but also socially, emotionally, and intellectually. These benefits lead to economic mobility, community vitality, a sense of overall wellbeing and belonging, for those students in communities historically most excluded from these benefits.
Ninety-four percent of our seniors go on to attend college, including minority-serving institutions, when only 65% of CPS students do the same. 55% percent of our students are Latine, and 28% percent are Black. 75% percent of our students come from households with less than $50,000 in family income, and wouldn’t have access to the benefits of high-quality music education without the People’s Music School.
Students like Alexa: “TPMS has helped me grow my self-confidence and has given me the opportunity to find my own success. TPMS has also helped me grow my discipline and helped me understand music, which is something I never thought I was capable of. I am thankful for the opportunities this program has brought me. I have grown in so many ways because of TPMS.”
And students like Javier: “Back in the day, I was a really troubled kid. It was The People’s Music School that showed me a different world. One of composure and being able to become something different. I don’t know who I would have been without TPMS.”
In challenging times like we are facing now, support from individuals like you is more important than ever. Our students depend on TPMS, and we depend on our community of donors. Help us foster and sustain an environment where the arts can benefit everyone.