Give the Gift of Music on this fundraising season! Support the Play It Forward Music Foundation!

At Play it Forward we know music is important to our community, and this year we hope to amplify the beat. Every dollar raised in this campaign will go directly toward in-classroom music instruction or to scholarships for individual lessons. It’s simple, we believe music lessons should be made available to everyone. Please help us make this goal a reality!

Starting as a response to wildfires in Sonoma County by donating instruments to those who lost theirs in the fire, Play it Forward Music Foundation (PIFMF) has grown to offer scholarships to students who would otherwise be priced out of private music lessons. PIFMF has partnered with New Horizon School and Journey Academy to offer music lesson classes to students with disabilities, learning differences, and those who could not otherwise access music.

The benefits of music programming on developing minds are abundant: creativity, self-expression, joy! Music is a powerful outlet for processing emotions. Your support helps students learn positive coping skills for stress and trauma while building self-esteem and connection to classmates and their community.

Thanks to your generous donations partnered with grant funding, we have been able to keep our scholarship and classroom programming afloat. However, we need your help to reach more students, to put our donated instruments back into the hands of people who will play them, and to provide lessons, songwriting, and performance opportunities to learning-different and vulnerable students—to ALL students.

Please make a donation today, or visit our auction site, to help us reach our fundraising goals and move into 2023 with the funding we need to continue playing the music forward!

All donations help our community rock on stage and in life (and are tax deductible as allowable by law, EIN: 81-3472911). If you have more questions about what we do at Play it Forward, please reach out! pifsoco@gmail.com.

Winter Fundraising Auction

Help us Play the Music Forward for another year!