Donation optionsThere are many ways to make a contribution
Your contribution will make a valuable impact on Ottawa’s youth.
You can give kids from equity-deserving Ottawa communities the opportunity to learn vital life lessons such as responsibility, teamwork, respect, and compassion through making music together.
Our Gift Acceptance Policy helps ensure that all donations align with OrKidstra’s mission and values while making a meaningful impact on the children we serve. Read the policy here
Donate Money
Your gift will help a child from an equity-deserving Ottawa area reach for success through music!
Instruments
Donations of musical instruments help OrKidstra give at-risk youth the wonderful gift of music!
Legacy Gifts
You can make a sustained impact on future generations by making a Legacy Gift to OrKidstra.
SponsorsBe recognized for building community
Be recognized for making a positive impact on the community! You can empower kids and build community and reach your community involvement goals by aligning yourself with OrKidstra. We celebrate both local and national businesses that have stepped up, on behalf of OrKidstra, to share their corporate social responsibility.
Invest for Good
When you know that 100% of OrKidstra graduates finish high school and go on to post-secondary education, you truly know that your support is making a difference.
Become A Sponsor
When you partner with OrKidstra, you empower local youth from equity-deserving communities to reach for success through the proven benefits of music education.
OrKidstra builds important life skills like teamwork and leadership…
OrKidstra graduate and Teaching Artist Declan shares how OrKidstra as given his life meaning.
OrKidstra builds important life skills like teamwork and leadership…
OrKidstra graduate Declan joined the OrKidstra family at age 11 in 2008. Ten years later, he is in his 3rd year of University and is an OrKidstra Teaching Artist.
“What I like most about OrKidstra is that kids in our community have something really constructive to do after school. Playing and singing with OrKidstra builds important life skills like teamwork and leadership, skills that are applicable to all areas of life. And the kids have a really fun time which a bonus.
I find teaching at OrKidstra really rewarding because I love seeing the kids accomplish their goals. I’m really invested myself and reaching my goals with them. I would totally teach for free if I didn’t have to eat!
I don’t even think I would be playing music if it wasn’t for OrKidstra and definitely not studying it! OrKidstra has really given my life meaning: I feel like I’m really giving back in a positive way.
Your donation goes directly to helping the kids and providing them with necessary equipment like instruments, strings, music and music stands. “When you donate to OrKidstra, you are helping to improve the quality of life for kids from under-served areas of our community AND you are sharing the precious gift of music with them. That’s an amazing gift.”
– Declan, OrKidstra graduate (2008 – 2015) & Teaching Artist
