Make a Tax Deductible Donation and Change Lives In 2022
With your help we can make a small corner of our world a better place. Please join us changing students lives and build stronger communities.
The Benkadi program puts West African drum, dance and culture classes into inner city schools in need at no cost to the schools. We supply world class educators, authentic and well maintained instruments and curriculum. The schools supply the students and the location.
What Benkadi does is simple but profound. It truly changes the trajectory of a student's performance and life and does it at scale in full classrooms.
In the six months since this started we have run two summer camps, taught 125 kids a week in two inner city schools and given the finale performance for a TEDX event in Los Angeles. We also have USC's Creativity and Brain unit wanting to develop long term research with us as a follow on project to their work with the LA Philharmonic's El Sistema program.
The expression "it takes a village" is true about many things. As my friends, family and members of my village I am asking you to help fund our activities in 2022.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support.
Benkadi is a fiscally sponsored project of Community Partners, a nonprofit charity exempt from Federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service Code. Your donation receipt for tax purposes will list your donation in the name of Network For Good. If you have access to a corporate matching gift program please submit your donation to double your impact.