Global Arts’ mission is to contribute to educational equity by providing exceptional music classes for underserved youth and continual professional development for educators. FOR STUDENTS We cultivate a nurturing learning environment for youth who come from underfunded neighborhoods; this learning environment is intentionally centered around music, community, and personal growth. FOR EDUCATORS We believe that students are more successful if their teachers are inspired and well prepared. To ensure that youth are receiving high-quality education, we provide teachers with innovative professional development, helping them to advance their teaching and build engaging environments for their students.

Global Arts’ vision is to empower both students and educators to achieve their full potential and positively change their local and global community through music.

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Goal One: To build and sustain Global Arts' Music Program so that all students in the community of Pico Union have equitable access to free music education.

Goal Type: New program(s) based on observed changes in needs among our constituencies/communities served.

Goal Two: To grow Global Arts' Progressional Development program into a series of conversations and workshops that support local teachers, parents, and community leaders.

Goal Type: New program(s) based on observed changes in needs among our constituencies/communities served.

Goal Three: To expand Global Arts' presence in the community as we support our partners in their advocacy work in Pico Union both within and outside the music classroom.

Goal Type: This goal reflects our commitment to further our advocacy work for our organization and or cause area.

Describe an investment in leadership

Global Arts provides monthly professional development training for all faculty and teachers that ranges from awareness, advocacy, and racial justice to best student and musical practices. Global Arts also sends (and covers the cost) of all directors to attend monthly workshops and seminars on development, fundraising, and financial planning.

This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:

• Strategic Partnerships

• Raising Awareness

• Community Building

What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?

Global Arts' prioritizes maintaining an active presence in our community both with our direct community partners as well as other local organizations. We engage in and organize events that support multiple community organizations and directly affect and support all local community members.

While entering the pandemic, our mission was to provide free music education in an orchestral setting to underserved youth in the Pico Union neighborhood of Los Angeles. When the pandemic hit, all of our students were learning virtually, and many of these instruments are extremely difficult to succeed at with out in-person support. In order to keep students active, but not disheartened, we purchased every student a ukulele so that they could continue to work on an instrument that would allow them to feel a level of success without in-person lessons. Once we came back to in-person learning, this also served us very well because the students can all be properly masked and distant and still rehearse ukuleles safely and inside. Fall 2022, we look forward to safely bringing back our winds, brass, and full orchestra instruments.