How You Can Help

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Your Financial Gift to Young Audiences of Massachusetts:

helps ensure that the next generation of MA students will experience dance, music, theater, visual and literary arts as part of their education.
enables us to reach more students in more MA communities
helps us attract and retain the region’s best performing and teaching artists as we expand our offerings to represent an even greater variety of traditional and contemporary art forms from cultures around the world.
keeps our Extended Access programming free for at risk students in under-served school districts, preschool students experiencing homelessness, and stuednts learning in hospitals and special needs settings.

Your Gift Of:

$75 brings a virtual instrument demonstration to preschool children experiencing homelessness--their first experience of a violin or a cello.
$150 helps "socially distanced" remote learners to express themselves together through movement, rhythm, or story in a YAMA expanded access residency lesson.
$600 brings three specially adapted arts workshops for physically or emotionally challenged to students learning in hospitals and special needs schools.
$1200 provides a jaw-dropping live performance to students rarely exposed to the performing arts, who are unable to leave their homes.
$2500 supports the development of new remote arts learning programs that bring new worlds into students' homes.

How Your Gift Impacts Students

Expanding Horizons Through Music

In addition to weekly lessons, each student receives a personalized bi-lingual songbook in our Expanding Horizons Through Music Program which uses music to teach foundational literacy skills to homeless preschool students.

YAMA Performances

Students listen with wonder to the classical violin of Shaw Pong Liu. YAMA performances often provide students their first encounters with an art form while providing cultural contexts and curriculum ties.

Residency Programs

Students at the Sarah Frederick School in Dorchester perform newly perfected Latin dance moves in a yearlong residency program made possible through donor support. YAMA’s residency programs enable students to express themselves while connected with culture.

Other Ways To Donate/Support

Social Media

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Employer Matching

Many companies provide matching support for charitable gifts made by their employees. Check with your Human Resources Office to see if your company has a program and what the process is. This is an easy way to maximize the impact of your gift, often times doubling your support.

Donor Advised Funds

A donor-advised fund (DAF) is a centralized charitable account. It allows charitably-inclined individual, families and businesses to make tax-deductible charitable donations of cash, publicly-traded stock and in some case, certain illiquid assets, to a public charity that sponsors a DAF program.

Transfer Stock

Transferring appreciated stock from your account to Young Audiences can reduce your capital gains tax. For more information, email Finance Manager Billy Perry.

Legacy Giving

Bequest
Life Insurance
Charitable Remainder Trust
Charitable Lead Trust
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Wishlist

MacBook Pro laptop
Adobe Suite Subscription
Professional photography services
Professional Videography services
Grocery gift card to purchase food for special events (such as family engagement events at homeless shelters for our Expanding Horizons Through Music program)
Gas gift cards to cover travel fees to events and conferences
Airplane mile gift cards to cover attendance at national arts learning conferences

To donate, email Executive Director Julie McConchie

Volunteer

Program Committee
Young Audiences of Massachusetts seeks volunteers with backgrounds as educators, school administrators, in the arts, or as school arts council or PTO representatives to join our Program Committee. A vital part of our organization, our Program Committee helps solicit, review and refine our programs and represents our organization at schools and events. For more information, email Program Manager Leah Hamilton French.

Events
YAMA can always use some helping hands at our artist showcases and at other events throughout the year. To learn more, email Program Manager Leah Hamilton French.

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Donate by Mail

Send a cheque payable to Young Audiences of Massachusetts, Inc. to:
Young Audiences of Massachusetts
89 South Street
Suite 603, Boston, MA 02111

iGive

After you install the iGive button in your web browser, each time you make a purchase at a participating retailer, a donation will be made to YAMA. We hope you will consider this new way to shop the next time you make an online purchase.

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