Get Matched! Help Educators and Support Providers Receive Musical Training Now!
Times are changing, and support is needed to make summer programs for educators available. All gifts under $50 will be matched by our Board members dollar for dollar while matching funds last!
Educators are hard at work.
Your gift provides them
with a way to keep going &
make a musical difference
for students of all ages and abilities.
Summer is their easiest time to learn. Please support GITC to provide for them
during this time of Federal, State,
and local budget cuts to the Arts.
Your tax-deductible gift this month will empower our nonprofit to provide free inclusive, creative, strategic, and highly effective
musical training for every kind of educator.
GITC inspires, equips, and supports teachers and specialists
to infuse academic and social emotional learning
with the joy of making music and the power of song each day.
Since 2000, over 20,000 educators have taken our free
sequential, ongoing classes to bring singing, guitar, ukulele, and collaborative student songwriting to their students
as a regular part of cross-curricular learning
both during the school day, and after school.
Through participating educators and support providers,
this work reaches all learners
including students in special day programs, unhoused youth, and medically homebound and hospitalized children.
Your donation can help GITC reach out
"from sea to shining sea"
with this gift of a lifetime that instills hope, improves learning,
and creates creative and caring classroom communities.
Source: Nonprofits Source, 2024
About our mission
Guitars and Ukes in the Classroom (a.k.a. "git-sy") empowers educators and students of all ages and abilities to make music that strengthens learning, belonging, and well-being. Through training in hands-on, inclusive music that enhances teaching any subject, GITC builds caring classrooms where every learner can engage, create, and thrive.
Gifts from donors like you
260,000
Students reached for the first time last school year
We provide immediate support to families facing crises, ensuring they have access to food, shelter, and basic necessities.
152
Classses, workshops & residencies delivered in 2025
Lunches provided to students across 4 schools—ensuring kids had the fuel they needed to learn and thrive.
3000
Instruments provided for teachers, children & youth
Toys during the holiday season, bringing joy and a sense of normalcy to families facing tough times.
"GITC is a brilliant program. They have a 'big picture' approach; they train educators to lead music with songs for learning in their own classrooms, and once successful, these people go on to train others. With this approach, there is exponential growth that doesn't cost too much. The instruments are either donated or deeply discounted, and GITC's open-tuning method makes it easy fo beginners of all ages to learn, and to teach. Everyone can do it. The program is proven, far-reaching, and it naturally sustains itself."
Bruce Robbins, M.D.
Donor & Fingerstyle Guitarist