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Making Art and Music Accessible To All Youth In Our Community

At 901 Arts, we are dedicated to providing art and music programs to all young people in our neighborhood. The former row home, turned corner store that now serves as our community center is the home base for our after-school programs in music and art as well as our teen summer job program and summer camp. Your support keeps the music playing, the paint flowing, and the creativity thriving—all in a safe, inspiring space. Support the next generation of artists today!

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Fund For Educational Excellence is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization, and your donation is tax deductible within the guidelines of U.S. law. Please keep your receipt as your official record. We'll email it to you upon successful completion of your donation.

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Our Drumline

Our drumline is known and loved throughout Baltimore! Our drum teacher, Wayne Johnson, is hugely dedicated to the young people in our program, teaching cadences and professionalism. A donation of $50 provides one hour of drum instruction for a classroom full of young people.
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Art Classes

Afterschool art classes are the core of our programming and were foundational in the formation of 901 Arts. Your gift of $75 ensures our art teachers have a month's worth of essential classroom supplies.
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Team Summer Job Program

Each summer we hire ten neighborhood teens to paint a mural, often providing them with their first job experience, an income, where they learn team work, life skills, build their resume and references for their future. A $100 gift provides our 10 teens with a daily refreshing cold electrolyte drink while painting in the sweltering hot summer sun.
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Art & Music Summer Camp

For 5 weeks we bring together neighborhood youth for a no-one-turned-away-due-to-lack-of-funds art and music summer camp complete with weekly fieldtrips and daily meals. $150 makes it possible to cover the true cost to send one child to camp for a week.
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Individual Music Lessons

Each semester we host 10-20 college students who come once a week to teach free individual music lessons on a variety of instruments to 1-4 children each. Your donation of $190 covers the cost of the annual tuning of our piano.
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Field Trips

We love taking our youth to the amazing variety of arts and cultural institutions Baltimore has to offer. Your donation of $250 covers the cost of a 25 passenger shuttle for 4 hours.
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