Our Story:
We created the
Prelude Music Foundation to offer children in underserved communities the opportunity to experience, create, heal, and learn from the power of music. We do this by bringing
Music Together, a research-based music and movement program, to children in need throughout the greater Houston area.
Why music?
*** Music is essential to every child's development.
*** Music helps language, cognitive, language, social, and emotional development.
*** Music helps creative minds grow.
Our Project:
Your support will bring much-needed joy and laughter as we bring music, dance, and play to children who would not be able to afford the marvelous Music Together program.
*** Each week, the Prelude Music Foundation sends trained Music Together teachers into the classrooms of underserved schools across the greater Houston area.
*** Every child in the program receives a songbook and CD to bring home and share. These materials provide the opportunity for increased family participation and allow parents to create strong, positive bonds with their children through music making.
*** Parents receive educational materials to deepen their understanding of their children's developmental needs.
*** Our music specialists also mentor classroom teachers about how music can support all learning.
*** Every semester, families, teachers, and all participating children come together at a family musical event where we all make music as one community.
Our goal is to bring this program to more than 800 children during the 2015–16 academic year. We know we can do it — with your help!
Please support our mission by making a donation of any amount today, and by sharing our mission with your communities via Facebook, Twitter, and email.
Our current efforts during this academic year will cost nearly $60,000. Thanks to some generous donations, we have already raised more than $11,000.
Please give generously and help us build happier, healthier communities across the Houston area … one child at a time.