Whatever winter holiday you celebrate, the countdown already underway! PIF is launching our end-of-year PEER-TO-PEER(you're hired!) fundraising campaign to exponentially magnify small, but meaningful individual efforts. Using the old holiday carol, the challenge is to motivate 12 (more or less...) family, friends, or clients/business associates to donate from $20 to $2,000 to PIF's cause to reach 10k by December 31st, 2024.

There are three ways YOU can bring the gift of music to Sonoma county residents with limited access in 2025:

Friends, family, and client easy email campaign- Take this little email footer image with its QR code and add it to your email signature with a a brief message: "Use this QR code to reach our 10k goal by December 31st!" Add your own personal request for more impact. I.E. "Friends and family, will you join me and use this QR code to donate $25 or more to this wonderful organization before December 31st?"

2. Benevity- Find out if the company where you or your family and friends works uses Benevity for employee charity contributions and employer matching funds. If so, use the link at the beginning of this sentence to connect directly to Play it Forward Music Foundation's campaign and designate it as the beneficiary of your donation!

3. Old-school, person-to-person OR social media invitation to donate- Do you have a personal story connected to PIF? Family member receiving Free Lessons, donated an instrument that got matched with an excited recipient? Did your life change when you started playing music? Use any of the below images or files to inspire your big-hearted friends via the annual holiday letter, email, social media, or just one-on-one conversations. Share a direct link to this campaign to make it easy for them, or direct them to the QR code in the image.

Add your own personal message (I.E. "Friends and family, will you join me and use this QR code to donate $25 or more to this wonderful organization before December 31st?") to the photo and this link to ask for donations(or QR code in photo). Photo file link.

Smiling boy at piano

Add your own personal message (I.E. "Friends and family, will you join me and use this QR code to donate $25 or more to this wonderful organization before December 31st?") to the photo and this link to ask for donations(or QR code in photo). Photo file link.

Teenagers with guitars

Use one, two, or all of these approaches to reach our goal. We appreciate your support in the past, and it's a great time to close up the year on a positive note knowing that in January, PIF will be ready to help bring more music to those ready to learn.

-Happy Holidays and THANK YOU from the Play it Forward Music Foundation Board and Executive Director!

The 12 Donors of Christmas Winter Fundraiser

By Play It Forward Music Foundation

The 12 Donors of Christmas Winter Fundraiser

End of Year, Peer to Peer(this means you!) fundraising for PIF

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