Some of you saw my earlier diary, 11 year old starts a charity. In sum, my 11 year old son started his own nonprofit corporation, Kidstruments Fund, Inc. It started when his orchestra teacher's violin broke and he started a fundraiser to help fix it. I'll leave the rest of the story to him:
The Kidstruments Fund will make grants to schools and school districts prior to the start of every school year, to support Orchestra programs in need.Josh learned, in the process of running the first fundraiser, that there were kids who wanted to be in orchestra, but could not afford the instrument rentals. Sometimes, there were kids who couldn’t afford to rent the instrument they wanted to play. And in some places, there are schools that can’t afford to even run an orchestra program. That’s why he decided to turn his fundraiser into a permanent charity, and The Kidstruments Fund was born.
Well, now he has a new idea. As he described it to me, "it costs less than my allowance,* and it could help so many people." Take a leap below the dancing treble clefs for more.
(*It costs less than his allowance, assuming he takes out the garbage, puts away his own laundry, and does other things to help around the house. Sorry, had to be Dad here.)