Sponsor A School
Advance Equity in Arts Education
ABOUT
Third Street Partners
For 130 years, Third Street has been guided by the belief that arts education is a right, not a privilege.
Our Third Street Partners program furthers our goal to ensure equitable access by placing highly trained teaching artists in NYC public schools to provide music and dance instruction to students across the five boroughs.
Why Third Street Partners is Unique
- Programs are offered throughout the full school year.
- Instruction is customized for each school to provide classes in a discipline of interest (i.e. rock band, violin, dance, chorus, percussion) and align with academic goals.
- Professional musicians and dancers present concerts for students in their schools. For many students, these concerts are their first exposure to professional productions.
- Programs culminate in opportunities for students to perform for their communities.
- Students are invited to enroll in two years of FREE music and dance instruction at Third Street Music School.
WHO WE SERVE
25+
Public Schools across NYC
4,000+
Students
75%
Live at or below the poverty line
78%
Of students served are BIPOC
THIRD STREET PARTNERS NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT
To address unprecedented public and private cuts to arts education funding, Third Street underwrites an average of 57% of the costs of programming to ensure that NYC public school students do not lose access to the transformative benefits or arts education.
Sponsor-a-School Today!
Gifts at every level include support for a year-long arts education program, offered once a week, and a culminating performance in your sponsored school:
$10,000
will provide instruction for 100 students.
$20,000
will provide instruction for 200 students AND a class set of instruments such as violins, ukuleles, of Orff instruments for students to practice with at school.
$30,000
will provide instruction for 300 students AND free instrument loans that students may take home to practice with outside of the classroom.
OUR PARTNER SCHOOLS
Bard High School Early College Bronx
Brooklyn Landmark Elementary School
Cascades High School
Children's Workshop
The Earth School
Kappa International High School
MS 131 Dr. Sun Yat Sen Middle School
The neighborhood School
PS 1 Alfred E. Smith
PS 2 Meyer London
PS 3 Charrette School
PS 15 Roberto Clemente School
PS 19 at East Village Community School
PS 20 Anna Silver
PS 33 Chelsea Prep
PS 42 Benjamin Altman
PS 99 Kew Gardens
PS 110 Florence Nightingale School
PS 130 Hernando De Soto
PS 134 Henrietta Szold
PS 142 Amalis Castro
PS 145K Magnet School for Leadership
PS 171 Peter G. Van Alst
PS 267 East Side Elementary School
(list as of January 2024)
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Thank you for your support!
General Information
Building Hours
Monday-Friday: 8:30am-9:00pm
Saturday: 8:30am-5:30pm
Sunday: 8:30am-5:00pm
Third Street Programs
Giving
Contact
Society of the Third Street
Music School Settlement
is a registered 501(c)(3)
EIN 13-5596825
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