Music Partners

Northshore Music Partners

“Music can unlock a creative potential that a student did not even know they had. Our goal is to help students unlock their potential by making sure every child has a ready-to-play instrument.” – Patsy Treece, Founder Northshore Music Partners

Foundation donors can support school programs, grants, and opportunities to perform through Northwest Music Partners.

Northshore Music Partners is a group of parents, teachers, and community members dedicated to celebrating, promoting, and advocating for music in the Northshore School District schools by:

Arranging for music at school board meetings, city and community-wide events, and Foundation events. (These activities were pre-COVID, will resume when able)
Facilitating booster training for both music and athletic booster clubs so groups can better understand best practices.
Funding musical instruments for class use with the support of the Foundation.
Providing instruments for students in need. This makes it possible for any area elementary school student to have access to a new or used musical instrument.

View our 2019 Cloud Concert

You can support student music education by:
1.) Donating gently used instruments. Donations are tax-deductible. Contact Patsy@nsdfoundation.org

2.) Make a donation to fund the repair and refurbishment of donated instruments.

3) Attend and support school-based performances by our talented musicians.

The reason we are so passionate about music education is because of the following findings and also because it can be a natural source of joy and comfort when a student loses themselves in their music.

Students who were exposed to music-based lessons scored a full 100% higher on fractions tests than those who learned in a conventional manner. –Neurological Research, March 15, 1999
High school music students have been shown to hold higher grade point averages (GPA) than non-musicians in the same school. –National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988
Middle school and high school students who participated in instrumental music performances scored significantly higher than their non-band peers in standardized tests. –University of Sarasota Study, Jeffrey Lynn Kluball; East Texas State University Study, Daryl Erick Trent
The College Entrance Examination Board found that students in music appreciation scored 63 points higher on verbal and 44 points higher on math than students with no arts participation. –College-Bound Seniors National Report. “Profile of SAT Program Test Takers. Princeton, NJ.” The College Entrance Examination Board, 2001
Music integrated into seventh- and eighth-grade social studies result in better subject performance and better social behaviors and attitudes. -National Educational Longitudinal Study, 1988.