Join our Setting-the-Standard Circle

Whether in the classroom, at a shelter or on stage, Making Books Sing is deeply committed to ensuring the highest artistic and educational standards are upheld.  You can help us model excellence for our children by sponsoring one of these standards:

To learn more about “Making a Difference at Making Books Sing”, contact”
Debra Sue Lorenzen, Executive Director, at (212) 573-8791 x.244
dlorenzen@makingbookssing.org

Extended School Programs
$2,000   Underwrite a month of weekly visits by an artist to four classrooms
$2,500  Add a songwriting component to a playwriting artist residency, with a total of 24 visits by a composer/lyricist (6 visits to 4 classrooms)
$5,000  Double the number of artist visits to a class (increase from 10 to 20)
$5,000  Serve twice as many students at a school (avg. 120--with your help, 240!)

Exceptional Artists
$5,000   Help Commission New Work
$10,000  Ensure Live Music on authentic instruments at every performance

Dynamic Production Values
$  7,500  Underwrite Costumes
$10,000  Underwrite Lights
$15,000  Underwrite Sets and Multimedia

Access for All Children
$15,000  Provide A Year of Family Workshops at a Tier II Shelter* in the Bronx
$20,000  Sponsor our tour to any NYC borough or California
$25,000  Subsidize tickets to school children


*Tier II Shelters provide transitional housing for extended periods, while residents seek work, education, social services and low-income, permanent housing.