Elevate Oakland
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Mission Statement
Elevate Oakland is a non-profit that works to bring culturally vibrant art and music programs to Oakland’s youth. Our mission to provide students with opportunities to engage in art and music programming has led Elevate Oakland to partner with public schools to meet a wide variety of needs, ranging from the provision of musical instruments to facilitating opportunities for students to perform alongside local professional musicians. To date, Elevate Oakland has successfully served over 3,000 youth at over 30 Oakland public schools. Across its programs, the focus is not on creating professional musicians, but instead on utilizing music and the arts as a conduit to get students excited about learning. Elevate Oakland supports students by using this excitement to get kids to school, engage them in learning, and support the development of skills that will help them succeed both within and outside of the classroom.
About This Cause
Ensuring access for all students. Through its work in the Oakland community, Elevate Oakland has seen firsthand the powerful impact of integrating arts into public school education. Still, today far too many schools are unable to provide music programming due to systemic and structural barriers. Even when one school within a neighborhood has the resources to provide music and arts education, this access is not consistent across the continuum of schools in the area. For example, a student who attends an elementary school that benefits from music opportunities may matriculate to middle or high schools that do not, cutting that child off from further chances to engage in arts education. Or a high school with an instrumental music class may find that its students have not had opportunities in earlier grades to learn about music basics or build foundational skills, putting them behind grade level expectations.