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Keep the Music Playing at Columbia
Other Ways to Donate
You can donate online right now through the following convenient, secure, mainstream platforms. You will receive an acknowledgment from the plaftorm and from CHSMPA.
Donate Online
A donor advised fund (DAF), which is like a charitable savings account, gives you the flexibility to recommend how much and how often money is granted to CHSMPA and other qualified charities.
Contact your provider or Financial Adviser with a request to recommend a grant to “CHSMPA Inc” with EIN #26-0512829.
Give through a Donor Advised Fund
We love a check—fewer fees means more money goes to supporting programming at CHS. Please make your check payable to “CHSMPA, Inc.” and mail it to:
CHSMPA
PO Box 135
Maplewood, NJ 07040
Mail a Check
Becoming a member of CHSMPA allows you to stay in the loop on our activities and volunteer to staff events. CHSMPA members contribute time, supplies, food and funding to keep Columbia‘s programs running. You can do a lot or a little. Or just join and donate. We’d love to have you.
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The Need is Big, The Time is Now
Music education funding is constantly at risk and CHSMPA’s role in filling the gaps between what the budget provides and what music teachers actually need is more important than ever. We provide directed grants to educators, fund and support performances and special events, and donate funds to meet the need for everything from t-shirts to bus transportation.
We do this through direct fundraising, organizing some of the community’s favorite events and maintaining a robust and active membership. These are all ways that you can help.
All donations to CHSMPA go directly to supporting music education at CHS—we are an all-volunteer non-profit organization that exists solely for this purpose.
What Donations Make Possible
CHSMPA stands ready to help the music educators at Columbia with all kinds of needs, sometimes at a moment’s notice. These are a few examples of how CHSMPA has helped over the last few years.
Funding Masterclasses
CHS Student Musicians participate in clinics with world-class conductors and musicians, thanks to masterclasseses funded by CHSMPA.
All string musicians particpated in two separate masterclasses with three professional maestros this fall, made possible by the generosity of donors like you.
Purchasing Instruments
Instruments cost more than you think, and we firmly believe any student should be able to participate in music programming, regardless of their means.
CHSMPA has helped CHS purchase countless instruments, including string basses, horns, bows, mallets, amplifiers, microphones and other instruments, all because of its donors.
Music Tech Equipment
Columbia is proud of its Music Technology program. It offers facilities and experiences in music production typically unavailable in public education.
CHSMPA has helped outfit these facilities with critical equipment to make this education possible—from keyboards to cables and wiring. CHSMPA also supports outstanding Student-produced concerts events, featuring student performers, from funding to staffing.
Everything Else
Running a modern music program has a lot of moving parts and requires logistic support that can be both complex and costly.
In 2025, CHSMPA helped CHS purchase a truck for the marching band to transport over 80 musicians’ equipment to competitions and between the high school and Underhill Stadium, several times a week.In 2024, CHSMPA helped move a valuable piano that was donated—a donation the school otherwise would not be able to accept.
CHSMPA fills the gap between what the school budget covers and what music teachers actually need. We need your help.
Some images courtesy Julia Maloof Venderosa.