Spanaway Nonprofits and Charities

I have personally been to Myanmar to see the work this mission has done and it is truly amazing. They have started a boarding school, dug wells, started the very first in the area home for widows, started a prison ministry, bought land to cultivate and grow crops for the community to be self sustaining and many more projects! Most of all between 95 and 97% of the money donated goes to the people in Myanmar! That’s incredible!

When I was young I was incredibly fortunate to have the gift of music in my household: all of my parents and grandparents were musicians, and my sister and I didn't have much of a choice in taking piano lessons- much as we sometimes fought against it. As it happens I became a professional piano teacher, and have the great privilege of interacting with amazing young students every day. However, the financial burden of private music lessons can be quite high, which is why I donate part of my paycheck, time, and skills each week to Jump Into Music, a nonprofit organization based in Spanaway, Washington. Led by Executive Director and founder Cheryl Drewes, Jump Into Music provides very low cost private music lessons (and usually instruments, too!) to students who are on either a free or reduced-cost lunch program in public schools. We are well aware of the major social, psychological, and long-term career benefits of music education, and it is a joy to teach students who are so excited and energized to learn music without being so cynical and negative about the idea as I was at their age. Jump Into Music started as a program in another nonprofit, but as we grew I donated my time during the summer of 2015 to establish it as its own freestanding 501(c)3, writing bylaws, articles, and doing all the legal legwork required. We now have close to 20 students on a variety of instruments with five teachers, and expanding each month. I am excited to see this program grow, but more importantly I am thrilled to give my time and skills to provide such an incredible opportunity to so many for whom this would otherwise not be an option.

I joined the Southern Region through their facebook group. This is the most unorganized group of misfits I've ever seen in my entire life. The Texas charter is claimed to be lead by some punk young kid named Trae who cherry picks who gets to hunt and who doesn't. <br><br>The Texas Charter has no documentation to present when they asked me for donations. Their response was "we just want to come kill some hogs why do we need to give you a letter?".