{"id":5608,"date":"2010-12-01T09:36:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T17:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=5608"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:34:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:34:03","slug":"25k-for-portland-public-schools-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/01\/25k-for-portland-public-schools-music\/","title":{"rendered":"$25K for portland public schools music"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peggy Swafford, former OSO violist and indefatigable champion of music education, has set up a project through the Music Education Assistance Project<\/a> (a program of Local 99, American Federation of Musicians) to provide $25,000 to get much needed instruments for instrumental music instructors in the Portland Public Schools.\u00a0 The programs are chosen by popular vote on Pepsi’s Refresh Everything website, which allows for people to set up projects online and use social media to rally people to their cause.\u00a0 This is one case where the need is dire – please click over to Peggy’s project page<\/a> and get her closer to her worth goal of providing Portland children with a musical education.\u00a0 You can vote for the project once each day, and for nine other projects each day, so keep clicking and spread the word!<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.refresheverything.com\/peggyswafford<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peggy Swafford, former OSO violist and indefatigable champion of music education, has set up a project through the Music Education Assistance Project (a program of Local 99, American Federation of Musicians) to provide $25,000 to get much needed instruments for instrumental music instructors in the Portland Public Schools.\u00a0 The programs are chosen by popular vote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[247,103],"tags":[3667,3679,3669,2451,2452,2450],"class_list":["post-5608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-fundraising","tag-fundraising","tag-instruments","tag-music","tag-pepsi","tag-portland-public-schools","tag-refresh-everything"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1ss","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3231,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/08\/building-the-future\/","url_meta":{"origin":5608,"position":0},"title":"building the future","author":"Charles Noble","date":"October 8, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The first three days of this week were spent with my colleagues Shin-young Kwon, Sarah Roth, Trevor Fitzpatrick, and Jason Schooler, playing Kinderkonzerts in three different area elementary schools: Lents Elementary in outer SE Portland, Penisula Elementary in North Portland, and Lincoln Street School in Hillsboro. 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