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Project STEP must raise 84% of its budget from individuals and foundations. We welcome your contributions.
Support our childrens' achievements, their poise, their joy!
Attend a Performance
Volunteer at a Performance
Underwrite a Performance
Donate an Instrument
Wish List
Support Project STEP with a Donation
Sponsors and Institutional Support
Music + Art + Teenagers – underwritten by the
Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Foundation
Attend a Performance
 Project STEP's calendar is filled with performances
held in a variety of venues in and
around Boston. A great way to get to know the program is to attend one of them - at
Boston's
Museum of Fine Arts, Symphony Hall's Cabot-Cahners Room or Higginson Hall, or the Hall of Ideas in the Christian Science Church.
 Master classes
provide unique opportunities
to see and hear well known performers off the concert stage,
where they meet
with our students as they guide and teach them on techniques and strategies to enhance the students' performances. Held twice a year,
master classes
offer a close-up look at the delicate
and demanding
work that goes into mastering a musical instrument, and performing a piece of music.
Renowned
artists such as Mstislav Rostropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, Jaime Laredo, Lucia Lin, and Marcus Thompson have lead
these extraordinary
classes.
Volunteer at a Performance
Project STEP has a substantial performance calendar and welcomes volunteers to assist with
these events.
Volunteers help arrange refreshments, welcome guests at the door, and
hand
out programs and other materials.
There are also volunteer opportunities behind the scenes, helping with activities such as getting
out
large mailings out and readying files to be moved to deep storage.
For volunteer opportunities, contact Javier R. Caballero, Program and Development Coordinator, by phone at 617-267-5777, or click here.
Underwrite a Performance
Project STEP
students
perform in rooms at Symphony Hall and other
Boston
locations throughout the year. Each
performance
requires rehearsal space, music, transportation of students and music stands, and coaching sessions. Costs vary, beginning at $300.
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Gregory E. Bulger |
On Sunday, June 10, 2007, at 3 p.m . , Project STEP celebrated its 25th Anniversary on stage at historic Symphony Hall. It was a gala event featuring Project STEP alumni and the Eroica Trio, along with other outstanding performances.
We are grateful to the Gregory E. Bulger Foundation for its lead gift and to other sponsors in support of this celebratory event.
To underwrite a performance, contact Mary Jaffee, Executive Director, by phone at 617-267-5777, or click here.
Donate an Instrument
Project STEP has an
impressive
instrument collection of 268 violins, violas, cellos, and double basses. We are always looking for quality fractional-sized instruments - half-sized violins, and small violas and cellos. Your donation is tax-deductible up to the value of the instrument, and we will obtain a verbal estimate on the value if you deliver it without a written appraisal.
To donate an instrument or an item on the wish list, contact Javier R. Caballero, Program and Development Coordinator, by phone at 617-267-5777, or click here.
Please check our Wish List
Can you help
make
a Project STEP wish come true?
- Ergonomic computer keyboards and chairs
- Laptop computer with Windows XP operating system
SUPPORT PROJECT STEP WITH A DONATION
8% of our revenue comes from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New England Conservatory.
8% comes from our endowment and other sources of earned revenue.
Every year we must raise 84% of our revenue from individuals and foundations.
Project STEP accepts credit cards (MC, Visa, and AMEX), checks, and securities.
To contribute to Project STEP, contact Mary Jaffee, Executive Director, by phone at 617-267-5777, or click here.
Thank You to our Sponsors and Institutional Supporters
OUR 25th year anniversary has been filled with milestones and achievements, and you can read all about them in our NEWS. There are hundreds of individuals who have contributed to our ability to provide the best instruction available to our hard-working students. Your commitment to Project STEP helps us deliver a complete music education to each of our students, making their achievements possible.
Our campaign to secure and expand Project STEP is meeting early, strong success, and an announcement will be made in February regarding a new scholarship.
We hope that our institutional, foundation, and government supporters take pride in STEP's achievements. None of this would be possible without the extraordinary support from our dedicated individual donors, and from the corporations listed below. All of your gifts are vital to the accomplishments of the program.
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Winsor Music Benefit Concert for Project STEP |
Artistic Support
Winsor Music
Thank you!
Project STEP teenagers will gather with the Museum of Fine Arts Teen Council to share their experiences in art and music, and to talk about why it is important to engage young people in artistic matters. Their first meeting was in the MFA’s Impressionism gallery, where STEP students performed Ravel sitting amidst masterpieces painted in his era. Then the MFA’s teens gave our students a personal and informative tour of their favorite paintings in the gallery. Thanks to Susan Kaplan and the Kaplan Foundation, the teens will explore the appeal and importance of fine art and music for the next three years.
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