Donate to the John Payne Music Center
The Covid Era has brought new challenges to the John Payne Music Center. In mid-March 2020, when we had to shut down our physical location, we were fortunately able to transfer successfully almost all our private lesson students to an online format.
Our large adult ensemble program, nearly 90 students in 17 different small bands, was not so fortunate. This program could not be continued online and so the Center suddenly lost $12,000 of monthly revenue and the ensemble teachers lost their jobs and their paychecks while the Center was still legally obligated to pay over $5,000 in monthly rent for rooms we could not use.
Back in March we heard that a few ensemble students valued their ensemble programs so much that they were planning to continue paying for their ensemble classes even though they were not meeting! We reached out to all our ensemble students and asked if any of them would be willing and able to do the same. And over HALF of them were! Quite a few donated even more than the amount of their ensemble fees, to make up for the fact that not all ensemble members were contributing. The resulting income, including a few quite large one time contributions, has successfully closed most of the financial gap through September.
But the Covid Era is still not over—and is looking less like a sprint and more like a marathon these days. Current donations from ensemble students, though still substantial (thank you so much, generous ensemble students!), are now covering only about half to two thirds of our income shortfall. So it is time for us to broaden our support. We have been serving the greater Brookline area with lessons and ensembles, spreading the joy of music making, for forty-one years—-since Jimmy Carter was president! With your help we can continue to do so through the Covid Era and beyond.
“John Payne Music Center” is the current operating name of Arts for All Incorporated, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. All contributions are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.
General JPMC Donation Fund
The John Payne Music Center is a non-profit organization. Help us continue to fulfil our mission of providing high-quality, affordable music lessons and ensemble groups taught by patient, expert teachers, by donating to our general fund to help keep the JPMC running. Monthly donations help us the most!
Ensemble Member Donation Fund
Our ensemble program is relying on the generosity of our students to make it through the pandemic. Help keep our ensembles alive by splitting your donation between the JPMC and your ensemble teacher.
If you would like to make a large contribution (over $1,000) please mail us a check made out to “Arts for All Inc” to John Payne Music Center, 9A Station St Brookline, MA 02445. We would prefer to avoid credit card fees for large donations so that we can direct all of the contribution to keeping the Center alive. Thank you!