What should be my approach in creating my music club? Should I create a business model? Should I try to make it more sustainable by making it a social business instead of making a volunteer program?
If it were to make money, one way I can think of is using the same model as TOMs. So, for example, students can hire musicians for lessons but at the same time, some of the money would go toward music lessons for an underprivileged kid at the same time.
I can also find inspirationg for Sir Ken Robinson so I don't want to forget that but I want to focus on what already exists first, although I had previously done some research but I must continue on that. I guess that would be the marketing section of the business plan. First I must see if there is an opportunity ( idea + need).
I just read of another organization called Roots of Music that provides so many resources to help underprivileged kids learn music. Here is a description " Roots of Music is a year-round, free music education and academic mentoring program for at-risk youth aged 9-14. It provides training in both hard skills, such as music instrument proficiency, as well as soft skills, such as self- discipline and responsibility. It also serves as a prevention program, deterring participants from violence, truancy, and school failure. Students receive free transportation, hot meals, mentoring, uniforms and instruments. The program has a waiting list of over 400 students. Transportation is the organization’s biggest cost; participants attend 40 schools and are picked up at 25 locations across the area before being safely delivered at home in the evening. This grant will support transportation costs for students. "
I realize that even if something like this already exists, it's okay to create another one, because there is after all a waiting list of 400 students and it doesn't matter if there is "competition" as it's not competing for money but rather another program to serve more people out there who need it. However, I will try to see if I can create a type of network just like in my haptic headband project where it worked with blind institutes and at the same time co-existed with other substitutes and competitors.
Roots of Music actually acts as a music education for a school and is mandatory for schools. It is a marching band made up of 100 students. The program provides music education in history, theory, instrumental instruction and ensemble performance. Furthermore, academic tutoring is offered to ensure the students maintain at least a 2.5 GPA in school.
One volunteer musician to only student is too little. It should be even more. It should about 3 to 1 perhaps. And I should also gain experience first before beginning this program by teaching some students myself. I should give piano lessons at my house at Alice Harte. But, at the same time there are a lot of problems with this idea because I probably can't bring a kid to my house without any information about myself. But at the same time, there are many people who just teach kids music by paying them by the hour without many documents. I wonder if I could just do that. I got to find out about this. O gosh, this is becoming more and more complicated as I go more and more in depth into this.
This is the site where I found these types of organizations : http://www.emergingphilanthropists.org/grants/2010-recipients/.
If it were to make money, one way I can think of is using the same model as TOMs. So, for example, students can hire musicians for lessons but at the same time, some of the money would go toward music lessons for an underprivileged kid at the same time.
I can also find inspirationg for Sir Ken Robinson so I don't want to forget that but I want to focus on what already exists first, although I had previously done some research but I must continue on that. I guess that would be the marketing section of the business plan. First I must see if there is an opportunity ( idea + need).
I just read of another organization called Roots of Music that provides so many resources to help underprivileged kids learn music. Here is a description " Roots of Music is a year-round, free music education and academic mentoring program for at-risk youth aged 9-14. It provides training in both hard skills, such as music instrument proficiency, as well as soft skills, such as self- discipline and responsibility. It also serves as a prevention program, deterring participants from violence, truancy, and school failure. Students receive free transportation, hot meals, mentoring, uniforms and instruments. The program has a waiting list of over 400 students. Transportation is the organization’s biggest cost; participants attend 40 schools and are picked up at 25 locations across the area before being safely delivered at home in the evening. This grant will support transportation costs for students. "
I realize that even if something like this already exists, it's okay to create another one, because there is after all a waiting list of 400 students and it doesn't matter if there is "competition" as it's not competing for money but rather another program to serve more people out there who need it. However, I will try to see if I can create a type of network just like in my haptic headband project where it worked with blind institutes and at the same time co-existed with other substitutes and competitors.
Roots of Music actually acts as a music education for a school and is mandatory for schools. It is a marching band made up of 100 students. The program provides music education in history, theory, instrumental instruction and ensemble performance. Furthermore, academic tutoring is offered to ensure the students maintain at least a 2.5 GPA in school.
One volunteer musician to only student is too little. It should be even more. It should about 3 to 1 perhaps. And I should also gain experience first before beginning this program by teaching some students myself. I should give piano lessons at my house at Alice Harte. But, at the same time there are a lot of problems with this idea because I probably can't bring a kid to my house without any information about myself. But at the same time, there are many people who just teach kids music by paying them by the hour without many documents. I wonder if I could just do that. I got to find out about this. O gosh, this is becoming more and more complicated as I go more and more in depth into this.
This is the site where I found these types of organizations : http://www.emergingphilanthropists.org/grants/2010-recipients/.
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