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The Foundation Grants Serve over 35,000 People
 Music In Schools Today received a grant earlier in 2008.
The Guitar Center Music Foundation (GCMF) awarded 27 grants in the form of musical instruments and equipment to music education programs across the United States this past term. Recipients include schools, after-school programs, and music therapy programs, which will receive items such as electric and acoustic guitars, amplifiers, brass instruments, bass guitars, classical stringed instruments, keyboards, drum sets and other small percussion instruments. GCMF administers 3 grant cycles per year and has reached over 35,000 people since the Foundation began awarding grants in 2006.
The 2008 fall grants will reach over 8,700 individuals through the following grant recipient programs:
- A Place Called Home, a South Central Los Angeles organization that offers programming to at-risk youth;
- All-Stars of Rock, a Los Angeles County organization that starts music programs in middle schools;
- Arts for All, Inc., a South Omaha, NE, organization that provides arts education to disabled people, children and senior citizens;
- Boys and Girls Club of Conejo and Las Virgenes, an after-school program that offers activities and musical instruction in the Thousand Oaks, CA, area;
- Boys and Girls Club of South Valley, an after-school program that offers guitar and drum activities to youth in the Murray, UT, area;
- Carlsbad High School, in Carlsbad, NM;
- Dayton Elementary School, in Dayton, NV;
- Elles School Drum Corps, a drum corps for disabled people in the Palm Beach County, FL, area;
- F. Blend Special Education Center, a school for visually impaired youth in the Los Angeles, CA, area;
- Greater Miami Youth Symphony of Dade County, Florida, Inc., reaches low-income children in the Miami, FL, area;
- Guitars Not Guns, an organization that reaches at-risk youth in Northern Virginia;
- Henry Street Settlement Music School Instruction and Performance Program, a New York City based center that is one of the nation's first arts facilities for low-income students;
- Inner Harbour for Children and Families, an organization that offers therapeutic drumming to children who are victims of violence in the Atlanta, GA, area;
- Twin Oaks Band Program, a continuation high school music program in San Marcos, CA;
- Keeping the Beat, a middle and high school choir program in Garfield Heights, OH;
- Little Kids Rock, an organization that helps public school teachers in Los Angeles, New York and Newark start their own music programs;
- Mariani Braceti Academy Charter School Music Performance Program, a middle school in North Philadelphia;
- Michigan Avenue School, an elementary school in Tennessee;
- Murphy High School, located in Mobile, AL;
- The Oakville High School Bands, a band program in the St. Louis, MO, area;
- Opus 118 Harlem School of Music, an after-school program in the Harlem, NY, area;
- Orange County Children's Therapeutic Arts Center, an organization that offers guitar classes for disabled youth in the Orange County, CA, area;
- Our Community School, an elementary school in San Fernando Valley, CA;
- Primal Connection Troubled Teens Program, a juvenile facility in central Florida that offers a percussion program;
- TeCo Theatrical Productions, Inc., a theatre organization for children in at-risk communities in the Dallas and/or Atlanta area that is expanding to offer a piano program;
- West Valley Boys and Girls Club, an after-school club that offers rock band classes to its local youth;
- Westbury High School, a Title 1 school in the Westbury, NY, area.
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