marketing
getting the word out that imeetswe is a community resource is one of the biggest ways to help.
- networking (social media, connecting with parent, homeschool, and service organizations)
- color printing services
- flyering/walkabout marketing
- personal connections
instruments
donated instruments can be provided on extended loan to students with limited budgets. you can also help by purchasing instruments and materials that help keep our environments culturally relevant for the communities we serve. below is a list of the most-requested instruments, as well as instruments we would like to purchase for family environments. unfortunately, we are not able to accept pianos at this time, but we may be able to help you rehome your piano if it is in good condition.
- ukuleles
- recorders
- glockenspiels/xylophones/metallophones
- good-quality unpitched percussion instruments (triangles, shekeres, caxixis, guiros, claves, gangkoguis, ganzás, etc.)
- good-quality hand drums (tablas, darbukas, dafs, dumbeks, bodhráns, cajons, djembes, pandeiros, Remo or LP instruments, etc.)
- band instruments (flute, clarinet, oboe, saxophone, trumpet, euphonium, tuba, french horn)
- stringed instruments (violin, viola, cello, bass, guitar)
- resonator bars from west music
- darbukas from west music
organizational infrastructure
imeetswe is in the early stages of a $5 million capital campaign to establish a permanent home in South Berkeley. We are building the infrastructure to run it well—and we need people who have been here before. We are recruiting experienced volunteers to join the board in a governance and leadership capacity, and we are seeking paid campaign professionals—in major gifts, real estate acquisition, and civic partnership development—to serve on our Campaign Leadership Committee. If you have worked at this scale and believe that community music belongs in the same conversation as libraries, parks, and health clinics, we’d like to talk.
contact
reach out to let us know how you’d like to help or to get more information