Help us dream big(ger) in 2026
Next year's momentum starts now.
It's the most impactful time of year
Your tax-deductible gift this month will empower our nonprofit to provide free inclusive, creative, strategic, and highly effective
musical training for every kind of educator.
GITC inspires, equips, and supports teachers and specialists
to infuse academic and social emotional learning
with the joy of making music and the power of song each day.
Since 2000, over 20,000 educators have taken our free
sequential, ongoing classes to bring singing, guitar, ukulele, and collaborative student songwriting to their students
as a regular part of cross-curricular learning
both during the school day, and after school.
Through participating teachers, this work reaches all learners
including students in special day programs, unhoused youth, and medically homebound and hospitalized children.
Over 1,000,000 students receive free musical access each year.
Your donation can help GITC reach out
"from sea to shining sea"
with this gift of a lifetime that instills hope, improves learning,
and creates creative and caring classroom communities.
Source: Nonprofits Source, 2024
About our mission
Guitars and Ukes in the Classroom (a.k.a. "git-sy") is dedicated to expanding and elevating the role of music in education by training teachers, specialists, and students to infuse academics, social-emotional learning, and classrooms with the joy of making music and the power of song. We serve in person & virtually, during the school day, and beyond.
Gifts from donors like you
260,000
Students reached for the first time last school year
We provide immediate support to families facing crises, ensuring they have access to food, shelter, and basic necessities.
152
Classses, workshops & residencies delivered in 2025
Lunches provided to students across 4 schools—ensuring kids had the fuel they needed to learn and thrive.
3000
Instruments provided for teachers, children & youth
Toys during the holiday season, bringing joy and a sense of normalcy to families facing tough times.
"GITC is a brilliant program. They have a 'big picture' approach; they train educators to lead music with songs for learning in their own classrooms, and once successful, these people go on to train others. With this approach, there is exponential growth that doesn't cost too much. The instruments are either donated or deeply discounted, and GITC's open-tuning method makes it easy fo beginners of all ages to learn, and to teach. Everyone can do it. The program is proven, far-reaching, and it naturally sustains itself."
Bruce Robbins, M.D.
Donor & Fingerstyle Guitarist