Who We’ve Helped

Donated

Millions

Donated

Music Drives Us has provided millions in funding to teachers and schools in need.

Schools Supported

300+

Schools & Organizations

Supported institutions across New England

Instruments Donated

1000's

Of Instruments Donated

Quality instruments placed in young hands

Years of Impact

19+

Years of Impact

Nearly 2 decades of transforming communities through music

Vermont Grant Success Story

Celebrating the incredible impact of our partnership with Vermont schools, supporting music education across the Green Mountain State.

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MDU Grant Recipients
  • 3rd EyE Youth Empowerment, Inc.

  • A Show of Strengths

  • Acadia Community

  • Autism Higher Education Foundation (AHEF)​

  • Bakersfield Elementary School

  • Balch School

  • Barbieri Elementary School

  • Barnstable County Jail

  • Barnstable Public Schools

  • BCOPE

  • Beauport Chamber Players

  • Bedford Education Foundation

  • Berkshire Children & Families

  • Biddeford School Department

  • Block Island School

  • Blues Trust Productions

  • BMC Durfee Marching Band

  • Boom VSA Vermont / Drum Festival

  • Boroughs Family YMCA

  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation

  • Boston City Singers

  • Boston Classical Orchestra

  • Boston Higashi School, Inc

  • Boston Music Project

  • Boston Public Quartet

  • Boston Public Schools

  • Boston Theater Critics Association

  • Boys & Girls Club of Boston

  • Boys and Girls Club of Boston / Sumner Club

  • Boys and Girls Club of Dorchester• Boys & Girls Club of Greater Westfield

  • Boys and Girls Club of New Bedford

  • Bristol Consolidated School

  • Building Bridges Through Music

  • Camp Sunshine

  • Carleton Project

  • Castle of our Skin

  • Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston

  • Chop Point

  • ​Collaborative for Education Services

  • Community Association

  • Community Day Care Center of Lawrence

  • Community Music School of Springfield

  • Community Music Works

  • Community Strings

  • Connecticut Children’s Medical Center

  • Creative Cultural Arts

  • Dayton School

  • Dedham Duffy Health Center

  • Dedham Public Schools

  • E.N White School

  • East Bridgewater Music Parents Association

  • East Middle School

  • East Millinocket School Department

  • Enfield Station School

  • Epiphany School

  • Esek Hopkins Middle School

  • Essex Chamber Music Players

  • Everett High School ’Crimson Tide’ Percussion Ensemble

  • Foxboro Music Association

  • Franciscan Children’s Hospital

  • Friends of Brattleboro Music Center - Windham Orchestra

  • Friends of Music Matters

  • Friendship Home

  • Fuller Middle School Band/General Music

  • Georgetown Music Parents, Inc.

  • Germantown Neighborhood Center

  • Global Learning Charter School

  • Gloucester Education Foundation

  • Gloucester Public Schools

  • Goddard House

  • Good Art Series

  • Gorham School District

  • Guitar for Everyone

  • Handi Kids

  • Hanover Public Schools

  • High Horses Therapy

  • Hit Streak Music Group

  • HMEA, Inc 2015

  • Hobomock Elementary School

  • Holliston Public Schools

  • Home for Little Wanderers

  • Home Health & Hospice Care

  • Horizons Program at DCD/ Enrichment Program

  • Hyde Square Task Force

  • Inter-Actions

  • International House of Blues

  • J. G. Pyne Arts Magnet School

  • Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly

  • Joseph Case High School

  • Joseph Jenks, Jr. High School

  • Kate’s Voice

  • Keys For Kids

  • Kids’ Corner

  • Kool Kids Project

  • Lake Region Middle School

  • Lavazza Chamber Ensemble

  • Lexington Public Schools

  • Lynn YMCA

  • Lyseth Elementary School

  • M.E. Small Elementary School

  • Maine Academy of Modern Music

  • Maine RSU10

  • Make-A-Wish

  • Making Music Matters

  • Mario Umana Academy

  • Marion Institute

  • Mashpee Public Schools

  • McLaughlin Foundation

  • Medfield Music Association

  • Medford High School Alumni Band

  • Melrose Veteran memorial Middle School

  • Memorial Highschool

  • Mendon-Upton Regional School District

  • Merrimack Valley YMCA

  • Metropolitan Wind Symphony

  • Millis School Committee

  • Minuteman Tech High School

  • MSAD 32

  • Music Access Group, Inc

  • Music Association of Dedham High School, inc.

  • Music at Eden’s Edge

  • Music Forward Foundation

  • Music Haven

  • Music Museum of New England, Inc.

  • Nashoba Valley Regional School

  • Natick High School Band

  • Nativity School of Worcester​

  • Nettle Middle School

  • New Bedford Dakota Foundation d.b.a. Urban Fusion

  • New Bedford Symphony Orchestra

  • New England Dream Center Adult Healthcare

  • New Philharmonia Orchestra

  • Newburyport Chamber Music Festival

  • Nipmuc High School Music Department

  • ​Norfolk County Correctional Facility

  • Northbridge High School

  • Norwood Parents Association

  • Old Sturbridge Academy

  • One Mission

  • Orpheum Theatre, Foxboro

  • Our Sisters’ School​

  • Parker Middle School

  • Parker Middle School

  • Passim Folk Center​​

  • Patrick Lyndon School ​

  • Patrick O’Hearn School

  • Pawtucket Urban Music Project

  • Peebles Elementary School

  • Pelham High School

  • Plummer House for Boys, Inc.

  • Plymouth County Correctional Facility

  • Point Webster Middle School

  • Professional Center for Child Development

  • Project Rise Performing Arts Center

  • Project Step

  • Quartet of Happiness

  • Quincy Band Boosters

  • Quincy Public Schools

  • Reading Public Schools

  • Rhode Island Philharmonic

  • Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra & Music School

  • Richmond School Department

  • River's Edge Alliance

  • Riverside Family Center

  • Roberts Elementary School

  • Rockland Public Schools

  • Roxbury Community College

  • RSU 50 - Southern Aroostook Community School

  • S.A.D. #14 East Grand School

  • Salem Academy Charter School

  • Salem Jazz and Soul Festival, Inc.

  • Salem Philharmonic Orchestra

  • Salemwood Elementary School

  • Sandwich Middle High School

  • Sanford School Department- Carl J. Lamb Elementary School

  • Saugus Public Schools

  • Seacoast Charter Middle

  • Searsport Middle School

  • Soldiers’ Home

  • Songbird Sings, Inc.

  • Sophia Academy

  • South Portland School Department

  • Southeastern Massachusetts Arts Collaborative

  • Special Children's Friends

  • Spurwink School

  • St. Mary’s Women & Children - GRLZ Radio

  • Stephen Camello Music Scholarship Foundation

  • Stow Friends of Music

  • Suzuki Institute of Boston

  • Swampscott High School

  • Tantasqua Regional School

  • Tewksbury Public School​

  • The Arts and Business Council

  • The Boston Minstrel Company Charitable Trust

  • The Genesis Fund

  • The Makanda Project

  • The Mile Wide Project

  • The Muchachos, Inc

  • The Music Revitalization Project

  • The Palace Academy

  • The Parents and Community Build Group

  • The Sharon Academy

  • The Town of Wrentham

  • The Warren-Prescott Foundation

  • Tones In Motion

  • Trenton Elementary School

  • Tunefoolery/North Charles Inc.

  • United Teen Equality Center

  • Up With Music

  • Urban Improv

  • VA Brockton

  • Vermont Agency of Education

  • VH1 Save The Music Foundation

  • Villa Victoria Center for the Arts Latino Performance Series

  • Wachusett Reg. School District

  • Wachusett Regional School District- Chocksett Middle School

  • Walpole Public Schools

  • Waltham American Legion Band

  • Waltham Public McDevitt Middle School

  • Watertown High School

  • Waterville Senior High School

  • Waterville Valley High School

  • West Boylston Arts Foundation, Inc.

  • Westford Public Schools

  • Weymouth Band Parents Association

  • ​Weymouth Public Schools

  • Whitman-Hanson Regional School District

  • Whittemore Elementary School

  • Whittier Street Health Center

  • Windham Middle School, RSU 14

  • Woonsocket Middle School

  • Worcester Chamber Music Society

  • Worcester Community Action Council

  • Worcester Public Schools

  • Yale New Haven Hospital

  • Young Audiences of Massachusetts

  • Youth & Family Enrichment Services

  • Zumix