Mission
We believe that music is critical for our cultural heritage. Many children are losing music class in school and they cannot fight themselves to keep those classes running. At Keep Children Rockin, we provide donations to underfunded elementary and middle school music programs.
Ruling year
2015
Principal Officer
Paul Sokol
Main address
124 N California St Unit 22
Chandler, AZ 85225 USA
EIN
47-3439084
NTEE code
(Music) (A68)
IRS filing requirement
This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990-N.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
There is a SERIOUS problem in the world these days: public school budgets are being cut which is forcing cornered administrators to drop arts programs; particularly the music programs. If we let this continue, in a few decades there will be fewer and fewer inspired young musicians and radio will be dominated by talk programming.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Keep Children Rockin
We provide music equipment donations and repairs across the state of Arizona (for now).
Where we work
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Our results
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Number of groups/individuals benefiting from tools/resources/education materials provided
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Keep Children Rockin
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
These are the number of youth music programs each year that received any music equipment donations or repairs.
Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We imagine a future where one can turn on the radio and still hear music.
We formed Keep Children Rockin to take an official stand for youth music programs in schools. The charity provides donations to underfunded elementary and middle school music classes.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We have an annual multi-city music festival to drive donations. From there, we reach out to school's individually and get their music equipment/repair needs. Then, we buy what we can for them!
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We've been doing this annual festival and resulting round of donations successfully since 2015, impacting more and more schools in more cities every year. Our founder has been a small business owner since 2008, so those skills are absolutely used for Keep Children Rockin.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Since 2015, we have donated over $10,000 worth of music equipment and repairs to over 15 different schools across Arizona.
For each city we have the festival in, we try to make more and more of an impact each year.
1st year: 1 school
2nd year: 3 schools
3rd year: 5+ schools
4th year: 10+ schools
5th year and beyond: 20+ schools
Eventually, we will have to leave Arizona and take our program to other states, which we are excited for :)
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Keep Children Rockin
Board of directorsas of 09/09/2021
Paul Sokol
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