Guitars not Guns
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Target demographics: Underprivileged kids an youth that may engage in gang activity.
Direct beneficiaries per year: Students 500
Someone who had 3 hours of volunteer time could: Be a speaker at Kiwanis, Rotary,Optomist clubs and many other places. We furnish the script and DVD for a 30 minute presentation.
Geographic areas served: National
Mission:
Provide guitars and lessons to foster kids, at risk youth and other deserving children in a classroom setting with qualified teachers
Results:
Kids and teens are served across the USA and Canada. Our program is open to thousands of kids at Boy's & Girl's Clubs, community centers, teen centers, schools and churches.
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DCGuitar
01/31/12
“One of the most important things that we can do as a society is to include music in our local communities. We can reach across the divide of cultures with music. We can bring forth change with music. We can and we must embrace the power of music. It is a very important thread in the fabric of our...
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bobo kedo
01/25/12
This is my second year volunteering as a guitar teacher for GNG. Although I have played for half a century, and taught math, science and art in the schools, teaching guitar is a new challenge. Today's kids have no culture of traditional song and finding that connection has been an education for me. ...
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Cynthia H.
02/01/11
I am priviledged to have met Greg Hammond when we both lived in Big Pine Key, FL approximately 1995. We met while he was playing for a band called "Lemongrass". We became very good friends. Since then life has taken us in different directions. He now lives in Washington and I live in KY. We have ...
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