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29 Glassdoor Helps Kick Off Fundraising Campaign for Marin City Kids; Benefit Concert On 8/29 Music is a useful asset many use to communicate, however for understudies at Bayside MLK Jr. Institute in Marin City it's been a to a great extent inaccessible fine art, with a little expressions program that is ruined by absence of assets. Marin City is a unincorporated piece of Marin County, where 95% of understudies fit the bill for lunch help because of salary levels. Plant Valley-based Glassdoor, one of the biggest tech organizations in Marin County, is assisting with commencing a 60-day raising money battle to help the recently made not-for-profit for Bayside MLK, The Center for Excellence , accomplish their objective of setting an instrument in each understudy's hand (third grade or more) by 2018. It's an aspiring, however not feasible, objective. Coordinators gauge they'll have to bring generally $70,000 up in gifts and instruments so as to give whatever number kids as would be prudent an opportunity to play an instrument. As a feature of the battle, there will be a one-night-just advantage show at the celebrated Sweetwater Music Hall on Tuesday, August 29, 2017. Straightforwardness, Glassdoor' s house band of capable workers and volunteers, will perform to help rustle up fiscal and instrument gifts for Bayside MLK understudies. Entryways open at 5:30 pm, with the band making that big appearance at 6:00 pm. The family-accommodating show is available to people in general, with a $20 recommended gift at the entryway or an instrument gift, all assessment deductable. Financial and instrument gifts can be made all through the battle. Assortment receptacles are situated at Glassdoor (100 Shoreline Hwy) in Mill Valley and Bayside MLK Jr. Foundation (200 Phillips Dr) in Sausalito. Gifts will likewise be gathered at Sweetwater Music Hall the evening of the show, and online gifts can be made through the battle's GoFundMe page: Help Bring Music to Marin City . Jonnette Newton, resigned head and now a music educator at Bayside MLK, knows direct how music can modify your life, and needs to ensure her understudies have a similar chance. Music kept me in school. At the point when I found the music room and went gaga for the instruments, it was a vital second that put me on a track to graduate, one I would not have been on in any case without music's impact, Jonnette said. This early presentation to music rouses understudy's own innovativeness and articulation, yet empowers them to take an interest in band and symphony groups once they arrive at secondary school. Glassdoor workers are collaborating together inside to drive assets and gather instruments as well, and Glassdoor's Community Door program will coordinate representative gifts. Being a decent neighbor is a significant piece of our DNA at Glassdoor and our representatives are focused on helping the children in Marin City, said Dawn Lyon, Glassdoor SVP and Chief Reputation Officer. Our expectation is through gathering pledges and chipping in, we can give access to significant projects, such as coding, expressions and music, that can have enduring advantages for these understudies. The coordinated effort between the school's staff and Glassdoor, an association that started a year ago, has just had an effect on understudies said Barb Killey, a Center for Excellence board part. Glassdoor's help has changed our objective from overpowering to totally feasible! Barb said. Their energy for aiding BMLK kids get the advantages of expressions training that are accessible to other Marin County younger students is authentic, and their eagerness is infectious. For more data about the advantage show at Sweetwater Music Hall on Tuesday, August 29, 2017 at 6 pm, or for inquiries on the most proficient method to give, email pr @glassdoor.com or call 415-339-9105