Community & care

Non-Profits

Increases attendance and engagement and delivers a tangible outcome video your funders, board and marketing team can use, driving positive youth-development outcomes.

We support youth development, attendance and engagement, positive youth outcomes, and program recruitment with the SEL books, keynotes, and the STEAM recording program.

FAQs

Straight answers.

The Psychological Effects of Music Community Resource Books and recording Programs, as engagement rather than clinical or case-managed services.

Organizations searching for youth prevention programs, at risk youth program ideas, or youth engagement activities ideas for a grant narrative should know these are the participation component. They are not registry-listed, and if your funder requires a list of evidence based programs for youth, we do not satisfy that requirement.
Yes, when materials appear in your approved budget or fit an allowable category. Private foundation grants vary by funder; federal pass-through funds require the expense to be necessary, reasonable, and allocable to the approved project. Check your award terms for the line.
Yes. Music Programs and recording, built on the Psychological Effects of Music Community Resource Books.

Cultural enrichment programs report cleanly against most youth-serving grants because attendance is countable and the activity is documentable. Ask us for a quote before you submit rather than after.
Yes. We can provide a quote for budget-building purposes, a description of the materials, and our SAM registration details for federally funded applications. Ask before the application is submitted rather than after — it is easier to build the line item correctly the first time.
Many nonprofits run a calendar fiscal year, which puts year-end purchasing in November and December rather than September. If you have funds to spend before close, tell us your deadline when you request the quote.
Yes, and it is often easier to fund than materials alone because it reads as programming with a technical skill outcome. Funders looking for STEAM, workforce exposure, or youth engagement all have a place to put it. Ask us for a programming quote before you submit, not after. Building the line item correctly the first time is far easier than amending a budget.
No. We send our own staff to run the programming. We do not train your staff to run it. Recording and production is a skill set, not a procedure. Trying to hand it off in a few hours would be like teaching a doctor to perform surgery in an afternoon — you would get a session that technically happened and a result nobody wants to hear. Budget it as contracted programming rather than as capacity building, because that is what you are buying.
No. We are supplemental. We do not replace your SEL curriculum, your trauma-informed practice, or any program you already have in place. If you run a core SEL program, keep it — ours adds a music-based component alongside it. If you have trauma-informed protocols, training, and referral pathways, those stay in force exactly as they are. Nothing in our material substitutes for them, and our facilitators are not a substitute for your clinical, counseling, or behavioral staff. Whatever program model you described to your funder stays as written. This is an added component, which is usually the easier thing to report anyway.
Yes. The Psychological Effects of Music interactive Event is built for exactly this — a family engagement event where parents and children participate together rather than sitting through a presentation. That is the difference that matters for attendance. Families come to an event where something happens; they skip an information night. The session is music-driven and participatory, so a parent who speaks little English and a fourth grader are in it on the same terms. Family engagement is fundable under most youth-serving grants and reports cleanly, because attendance is countable and the activity is documentable.
Yes. The Psychological Effects of Music interactive Event works for board meetings, donor events, staff retreats, and community programming. For fundraising events it also demonstrates the programming donors are being asked to fund, which is more persuasive than a description of it.
Contact us with your quantity and we will quote it. Class-set and multi-site quantities are priced differently from small orders.
Yes. Invoice to whichever entity holds the funds — tell us the billing entity and the ship-to separately if they differ.

How this program runs

Same SIWM work. Built for Non-Profits.

Start with the social emotional learning books. Add a keynote. Bring a recording program when you want participants writing and performing — we produce the song and video.

CASEL 5 SEL competencies; National Core Arts (Music/Media Arts); Common Core ELA writing & speaking/listening; CTE Arts/A-V pathways. Aligned with nonprofit goals for youth development, community engagement and measurable impact. The program strengthens SEL, communication, leadership, digital literacy, STEM/STEAM and workforce readiness while producing a tangible asset for grant reporting, fundraising and community outreach.

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