Branching Out 2025 - 2026 - Music Making a Difference
With so much need and want in our world these days, it is especially important for our students to feel empowered to be game changers. The Music Making A Difference Branching Out initiative will encourage music students across the country to raise money by playing concerts to benefit a local need. Some recital targets could be:
- Your Community’s Food Bank
- SPCA
- Refugee sponsorship organizations
- Hospice programs
- A particular project such as providing socks for the homeless.
- A local environmental issue
With this public outreach, local students, branches, and provincial organizations can truly make a difference in their community. An engaging option would be to pair the donation recipient with the concert theme, i.e. a fundraiser for the SPCA could be a concert of animal-themed music; refugee fundraiser could feature music written by refuges or from parts of the world where there are many refuges.
Events may be live in-person, live-streamed, or pre-recorded.
Branching Out donations of $100.00 each will be distributed by random draw to participating Branches after March 31, 2026. All submissions will be acknowledged in the CMT Year in Review.
Applications are to be submitted online at www.cfmta.org and must include a write-up of the event, a photo, and a completed photo release form. The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2026.
For more information: Heather Fyffe admin@cfmta.org