KUSF Community Crusade
THE KUSF COMMUNITY CRUSADE offers community organizations support through daily, on-air public service announcements (PSAs).
September 2004 :
- Music in Schools Today
- LEAP - Imagination in Learning
September 2004 Community Crusade - Music in Schools TodayThis month's KUSF's Community Crusade focuses on Music in Schools Today. For twenty years, Music in Schools Today has been answering the call to counter the Bay Area's music education crisis.
Music nurtures the human spirit, promotes personal development, and is central to learning and the creative process. Music and the arts are as essential to a well-rounded education as literacy, math and science. In and out of the classroom, music promotes physical well-being, social understanding and helps build bridges within local and global communities.
But, despite extensive research showing that music instruction supplies critical tools for child development, music and arts programs are consistently the first victims of budget cuts.
Music in Schools Today combats this trend with a comprehensive set of programs that serve more than 10,000 children annually in schools and community centers. Music in Schools Today is also a leading advocate to restore music as an essential principle of education, from Kindergarten through High School.
Music in Schools Today is always looking for volunteers and donations. To get in touch with Music in Schools Today, call them at (415) 392-9010 or visit www.mustcreate.org.
September 2004 Community Crusade - LEAP - Imagination in LearningThis September, KUSF's Community Crusade highlights a group called "LEAP - Imagination in Learning." LEAP is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1979 as a response to severe cuts in the arts budgets in California schools.
For 25 years, LEAP has enriched the lives of children throughout the Bay Area and encouraged creativity by bringing architects and visual and performing artists into the classroom for grades 1 through 8.
On October 2nd, LEAP is holding its 21st Annual Sand Castle Classic at Ocean Beach near the Cliff House from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. This year's theme is "Race to the finish."
Each year, the LEAP Sand Castle Classic turns San Francisco's Ocean Beach into an outdoor gallery of amazing creativity. Teams of architects and developers, building and design firms, join together with Bay Area children to create towering castles, formidable and fantastic creatures, and giant historic monuments, all with sand as their only medium.
The October 2nd event will draw more than 7,000 people and help LEAP to raise most of the funds it needs to continue supporting arts in the schools this year.
If you want to volunteer for the Sand Castle Classic or to help LEAP support school art programs, call (415) 512-1899 or visit www.leap4kids.org.
ARCHIVED CRUSADES 2004
August, 2004: Shaping San Francisco; SF Neighborhood Theater Foundation
July, 2004: ZEUM; Youth Speaks
June, 2004: SPCARE; Healing Muses
May, 2004: Cartoon Art Museum & Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
April, 2004: San Francisco Media Archive & Bay Area Video CoalitionARCHIVED CRUSADES 2003
March, 2003: Cartoon Art Museum & Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
January, 2003: Friends of the Urban Forest & Save the Bay
February, 2003: Hospice by the Bay & Lyon-Martin Women's Health ServicesARCHIVED CRUSADES 2002
December, 2002: San Francisco Rescue Mission & San Francisco Food Bank
November, 2002: San Francisco City Carshare & San Francisco Bicycle Coalition