UPDATE!
Happy New Year! The Uptown Music Collective has raised $35,100 (88%) towards the goal of $40,000 for our Annual Campaign!! These donations have come through several streams, including Facebook, our website, and our direct mailer campaign.
These donations have come through a number of streams including Facebook, as well as our website and our direct mailer campaign. Every donation, large or small, brings us a step closer to being able to continue making a difference in the lives of young people through the life-changing power of music! If you have donated already, THANK YOU so much for your support!
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The Uptown Music Collective’s
ANNUAL CAMPAIGN
This year’s Annual Campaign goal is to raise $40,000!
“The story of Uptown Music Collective isn’t just about the public success seen on stage at the Community Arts Center each year. Instead, it’s a story about daily private victories that happen in the lesson room and classroom, behind the scenes, where it’s really all about an educational process that takes individuals on a transformative journey.
It’s people like you who make success possible for hundreds of young dreamers who pass through our doors each year.”
– Dave Brumbaugh, Executive Director
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When you make your tax-deductible donation, you become part of the UMC family.
We’ll list your name and donor level in the Collective’s Annual Report and on our website, and we’ll count you among the army of supporters who believe in our work as much as we do.
Words from our students
Uptown Music Collective student Gabreon Godin is a prime example of the commitment and dedication that the Collective believes it takes to create a well-rounded musician. Gabreon started taking lessons at the UMC when he was just 9 years old. Throughout his time with the Collective, he has participated in lessons, classes, workshops, showcases, and has performed and led community performance groups. He continues to perform and direct major performances on the Community Arts Center stage. Fast forward to today … Gabreon is a senior at Williamsport Area High School. Please read a few of his words, below:
“ I started so young at Uptown, with Willi as my sole teacher. His care and enthusiasm really propelled me and made me enjoy music. Later, I would move on to work with Dave in my guitar lessons and this is where my guitar skills began to really develop and refine. It wasn’t only music I was learning in these lessons, though; I was also being taught how to manage myself. You will never find a place as inspiring and as caring for students of music as the Uptown Music Collective.”
Words from our students
“ I started so young at Uptown, with Willi as my sole teacher. His care and enthusiasm really propelled me and made me enjoy music. Later, I would move on to work with Dave in my guitar lessons and this is where my guitar skills began to really develop and refine. It wasn’t only music I was learning in these lessons, though; I was also being taught how to manage myself. You will never find a place as inspiring and as caring for students of music as the Uptown Music Collective.”
There are 100 other students – just like Gabreon – who are benefitting from the work of our staff, teachers, and programming as we guide them to becoming great musicians and even better humans.
For more information on this initiative and the Annual Campaign itself, please read the letter below from UMC Founder and Executive Director, Dave Brumbaugh, and then make a donation.
Click Here to read the Annual Campaign Letter.
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If you must mail in your gift, please make a donation by printing a copy of this year’s donation card, making a check payable to the Uptown Music Collective, and mailing it to P.O Box 1224 Williamsport, Pa 17703.
Click Here to Download & Print this year’s Donation Card.
