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The Encore Fund

Designed to Promote Student Success

For nearly 80 years, San Diego Youth Symphony (SDYS) has invested in the future of thousands of young people through the study and performance of music. Through our Youth Orchestra program in historic Balboa Park, community outreach programs across San Diego County, and early childhood music curriculum, we are San Diego’s most comprehensive provider of cradle-to-college music education. At SDYS, we serve thousands of student musicians and their families every year, using music as a vehicle to give young people the social, emotional, and academic skills that prepare them to enter a 21st-century workforce. No qualified student is ever turned away for financial reasons: families who cannot afford to pay are given comprehensive support through The Encore Fund.

 

What is the Encore Fund?

The Encore Fund goes even further by providing more comprehensive assistance designed to promote student success.                                                                                                             In addition to direct tuition assistance, your investment in the Encore Fund provides:

• Group or private lessons free of charge
• Instrument loans to students who need them
• Free instrumental supplies, cases and repairs
• Performance clothing to students who don’t have formal wear
• Free concert tickets to scholarship families
• Parent engagement programs and a parent liaison position
• Community-based programs that bring music into our schools

 

How does this help?


• Students who receive assistance through the Encore Fund have a better chance
of advancing through our program at the same or similar rate as their peers.
• It makes SDYS more reflective of the communities we serve and builds bridges
between our programs.

 

For more information, contact SDYS Individual Giving Manager Terry Williams, at twilliams@sdys.org or call 619-233-3232 x116.

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