Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form

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Organization Name: Cherry Children’s Music Outreach 
Legal Name (if Different): A D Cherry Early Childhood Music Outreach Program, Inc
Also Known As:
Mailing Address: 8702 Riverscape Court
City: Odenton
State: Maryland
Postal Code: 21113
Main Phone: (301) 775-4319
Main Fax:
Organization Website: https://www.cherrymusicoutreach.org/
Employer ID Number: 20-1903033
Organization Tax Status: 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization

Proposal Information

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Today’s Date: 3-29-2023
Requested Amount: $10,000

Project Title: Lights, Camera, Music Class!!
Project Description:

Cherry Children’s Music Outreach (CCMO) was established in 2005 to address inequity in music education for young children living in disadvantaged communities throughout Maryland and Washington DC. Our dynamic curriculum gets young children engaged with music, building their confidence and the skills necessary for learning and growing. Cherry Children’s Music Outreach respectfully requests the support of the Charles and Joan Hermanowski Family Foundation for the development and launch of a new music education video series for our partner centers serving low-income children.

Our team is continually thinking of new strategies to enrich our classroom experiences and make our programs even more accessible and impactful for the young children that we serve. With our current structure and capacities, CCMO can only visit partner centers once per month to hold in-person classes. The Foundation’s investment will provide critical support for CCMO to curate a new researched-based music education video series, enabling over 1,500 children to have music education accessible to them all year long, even when CCMO is not conducting in-person classes. The video series will kick off in the fall and will feature themed music education content developed by experienced educators that engages the children through lessons organized around seasonal topics. This exciting new series will be made available in all 19 of our partner centers across five counties in Maryland and Washington DC and will run through the summer of 2024. The videos will serve as a supplemental tool for partner center teachers. CCMO will also share the videos with the children and their families for viewing outside of class time. As an additional component of the series, CCMO will create and publish two publicly available music education videos. These will be posted to CCMO’s Youtube channel and will be accessible to hundreds of families nationwide.

Total Project Budget: $22,100

Other Funding
Sources For The Project (Committed & Potential): Cherry Children’s Music Outreach is currently soliciting support for this project. No other funding sources have been secured at this time.

Project Duration: 8/1/2023- 7/31/2024
Geographical Area Served: Maryland- Anne Arundel county, Howard county, Montgomery county and Baltimore county- and Washington DC
Age Group To Be Served: 20 months to 6 years

Contact Information

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Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.):
Contact First Name: Claire
Contact Last Name: Cherry
Contact Title: Executive Director
Contact Phone: (301) 775-4319
Contact Email: info@cherrymusicoutreach.org