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Help bring young musicians, poets and artists together.

Celebrate MAPS and become a Supporter!

MAPS is dedicated to Inspiring Social Justice through Artistic Collaboration, empowering students to create music, poetry, and visual art that reflect their voices and experiences. If you’re interested in donating to a specific MAPS program, please contact one of the individuals listed on our Contact or Meet the Team pages for their information. Your generosity helps sustain these impactful programs and ensures that students continue to engage in meaningful artistic collaboration, motivating a generation of future changemakers. Thank you for your support!

Ambassador Sponsor – $500

You can help spread the word about MAPS by spending a day with the students both on stage and in the classroom and learning how MAPS works; you become a MAPS Ambassador. You will get to know the way the poets, songwriters, and artists create their work. You will learn about their lives and how they build bridges across life’s many obstacles. Your support can make it possible for us to expand the programming to new schools in new locations.

Visual Storyteller Sponsor – $250

You can help make the story of MAPS students go viral. Each MAPS concert is recorded, showing the poets reading their work, the musicians performing the corresponding compositions, and the artwork inspired by the poetry and music; filming these events opens up MAPS students to a broader community of people who may not have been able to attend the concert in person. Your support can help MAPS share the deep mutual respect that is built amongst the students from urban and rural schools with countless viewers.

Recording and Production Sponsor – $200

You can help the music students capture their songs forever. Recording the MAPS songs involves having the right equipment and engineering to record the different instruments and voices. Your support can make it possible for MAPS to provide studio time to its students to record their songs in a professional studio to add to their portfolio and share with the world.

Transportation Sponsor – $100

You can help make it possible for the students to travel to each other’s schools, across state lines, to spend valuable time together building relationships, while creating and sharing life experiences. Your support can help fund the all-important bus and meal costs.

MAPS Poetry and Music Friend – $50

You can help MAPS expand its efforts to bring middle and high school students together from urban and rural settings to create poetry, music, and visual art. Your MAPS friendship can make it possible for more students to experience this great program!

Anyone giving $150 or more will receive a rockin’ MAPS T-shirt and a MAPS Poetry/Music Book and anyone giving $250 or more will also be named on the MAPS website and social media as a MAPS supporter.  

Donate Online

               

Mail a Donation

Music and Poetry Synchronized, Inc
39 Massasoit Street
Northampton, MA 01060

Foundations

Whether you are a private or community foundation, we welcome your support.  We are happy to submit a grant application and provide any information necessary. Please contact Tom Willits, Executive Director

Matching Gifts

Many corporations and companies will match a charitable gift.  In many cases, they will double the original donation. Please consider speaking to your company about their program as it is usually a simple process to access.

 

MAPS Supporters

Foundations and Organizations

Robert and Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation

The Richard P. Garmany Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts

The J. Walton Bissell Foundation

Anne Woodhull Fund

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Budd Family Fund

Beveridge Family Foundation
 

Business Sponsors

Keiter Builders

Daily Operation

Downtown Sounds Workers Co-op

One Way Screen Printers

Friends of MAPS ($500 and above)

Bob Fazzi and Diane Buckley

Nancy Deren

Mary and Chris Fournier

Jenni French

Lynn Matteson and John Hoops

Rebecca Calahan Klein

Martin Wohl and Marisa Labozzetta

Enid Rey

Bob Brick and Janet Shepherd

Debra Pemstein and Dean Vallas

Thalia Venerable

Cynthia Warshaw

Nadine Francis West and Arnold West

Donald Wiggin

Roy Willits

Tom Willits and Nancy Wheeler

Pedro Zayas

Individual Donors ($250 – $499)

Ted and Barbara Sergi

Jeff Rosen

Kevin McDonald

Peter and Sheila Post

Jeanie Forray

Maurille and Janice Fournier

Linda Hoer

Eric Becker

Jenny Ladd

Chuck Will

Nancy and Eric Reeves

Don Wiggin and Kay Lynn Kretchmar

Lynn Matteson and John Hoops

MAPS Motivators – Building the Next Generation of MAPS Supporters

Lindsay Fogg-Willits and Zack Forray

Nina Wheeler Roberts

Lisanne Wheeler and Fred Weaver

Leah and Anthony Butler