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Turkey and Syria need our help! Inspiring Hope! March 2023 PLEASE DONATE TO HELP TURKEY AND SYRIA ♩ Director’s Corner The great nations of Turkey and Syria rest heavily on our hearts and minds. Some of our Tacy Foundation families originated from these countries. We bear their sadness and loss as our own. We are swinging into action to send funds to these nations. With the generosity, resourcefulness, and knowledge of our community, we are organizing a benefit concert. United Church of Christ of Seneca Valley has offered its entire church for a Tacy Youth Benefit Concert on March 5th...

** Inspiring Hope! February 2023 WOW! ORIGINAL MUSIC AND PERFORMANCES BY OUR TACY KIDS! ♩ Director’s Corner You may well remember Nancy Bo Flood’s book I Will Dance. For an early Piano Pals session, the kids were restless while waiting for their lessons. I read that book, and you could have heard a pin drop as the story progressed about a child, confined to a wheelchair, who wanted to dance. A beautiful message. Nancy’s new book, Walking Grandma Home, tackles an extremely difficult subject: how a child can deal with a close family member passing away. (See the box below.) Nancy...

*January Tacy Foundation News!* View this email in your browser Inspiring Hope! January 2022 WOW ORIGINAL MUSIC AND PERFORMANCES BY OUR TACY KIDS! ♩ Director’s Corner HAPPY NEW YEAR We are still in holiday mode here, recovering from the flurry of activity in December. Our student volunteers made beautiful cards for five hospitals and 27 seniors’ facilities, performed in 34 Live Music events (learning holiday music for this special time of the year), taught five Piano/Guitar Pals classes each week, sent in music videos for the standard YouTube Playlist and for the Holiday YouTube Playlist, and composed music compositions for...

Tacy Foundation Inspiring Hope December 2022 *Happy December from the Tacy Foundation* Inspiring Hope! December 2022 LISTEN TO NEW PERFORMANCES AND ORIGINAL MUSIC HERE ♩ Director’s Corner Happy holidays to everyone! Volunteers are preparing 4,500 cards. These will be homemade as well as pre-printed cards designed by Ana Eastep and printed by MCPADNET. They will go to 2,000 seniors, 1,000 hospital staff, many patients, 100 children in Title 1 schools, 700 military families in 68 U.S. Fisher Houses, and 500 First Responders Children. Our volunteers send their brightest holiday wishes with each card. Included in the envelope will be a...

Inspiring Hope! November 2022 LISTEN TO NEW PERFORMANCES AND ORIGINAL MUSIC HERE ♩ Director’s Corner We are launching Piano Pals in five schools! There is a huge demand for mentors who can volunteer to teach two students per week at the children's school. To support all the children whose parents want them to study music, we would need coverage for:  •    91 children at Clopper Mill,  •    60 children at Gaithersburg ES (and counting),  •    70 children at Fox Chapel,  •    96 children at Brown Station   •    an unknown number of at applicants Great Seneca Creek.   Title 1...