The Music Booster Manual

Your Step-by-Step Guide to Launching a Music Booster Group in Your School

By: Elisa Janson Jones

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Your school music program should be 100% funded by the school, the district, and the state. Unfortunately, for most of us that simply isn’t the case. Our programs are running on bare-boned budgets and as music educators and parents we often find ourselves over-worked trying to raise funding to establish a thriving music program. Fortunately, the best music programs never fail to attract supportive parents, alumni, administration, and community members at large. This makes creating and managing a booster program a particularly easy and attractive way to gain essential funding for establishing programs, and for providing the financial resources to enhance the learning of students while increasing their opportunities to perform, travel, and experience music on a deeper level. This manual is set out for the music director looking to start a booster program, and the director that already has one but wants to increase its effectiveness and efficiency. But this manual is also for the boosters themselves, to help guide the organizations motivations, actions, and legal compliance. Book includes links to valuable resources to help launch your booster group: sample organization bylaws, meeting agendas, media contact templates, how to craft your marketing message blueprint, and more!