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- EIN 52-2102230
- 1789 Lanier Pl Nw #3 Washington DC 20009 USA
- http://www.chime-dc.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts Education, Children's Museums, Education, Elementary & Secondary Schools, Literacy, Music
Mission: CHIME was founded in 1997 as a response to the inadequate and unequal provision of music education in recent years for Washington, DC public school students, most of whom are minority and low-income, both in and outside of school, in spite of accumulating evidence of the many benefits that music study at early ages provides.
CHIME's goals are:
1.To promote incorporation of standards-based music instruction in the required curriculum of DC public schools, and community support for school bands and other ensembles. 2.To support and enrich school music curricula through offering schools ongoing music programs, integrated into classroom as well as music curricula, including presentations, instruction, teacher workshops and instrument donations.
3. To promote and help provide after-school music instruction that would focus on providing opportunities for motivated students without access to private instruction to develop their talents and participate in bands and other ensembles.
4. To document the history of DC school bands and ensembles and the role they have played in participants? lives and building community. 5. To develop a music mentors program in which mentors would form long-term commitments to take low-income children to age-suitable music programs by local performing organizations. 6. To help institute a program to train DC students in instrument repair.
Programs: - Organizing Music Connections partnerships for ongoing instructional music projects between DC schools with different demographics. We hope to add to the six already organized. We will continue videotaping year-end concerts from these partnerships for airing on DC Public Access TV, and distributing DVD copies to participating students. ?Offering Free Music Around the World presentations for DC students and professional development workshops for DCPS teachers: We have currently booked 32 presentations for around 2,000 preK-grade 3 students from 18 DC schools for Spring 2008, and two professional development workshops for DC classroom teachers, through the DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative. We will also offer these programs as funding permits directly to schools requesting them. - Contributing to Early Childhood Education through the Early Childhood Music and Movement Collaborative that CHIME organized in Fall 2007. - Intensifying our advocacy activities to have quality music instruction included in the required DCPS curricula. This involves collaborative activity with many other organizations concerned with improving DCPS education at the national and local Please visit our website, www.chime-dc.org, for more information about our current activites and accomplishments.