Tech for Teens
E-Waste Recycling & Technology Access.
Repurposing e-waste into functional tools for learning and creativity, and closing the digital divide for the students who need access most.
Initiatives
Big ideas. Built for impact.
Programs are repeatable learning experiences. Initiatives are the larger strategies, partnerships, campaigns, and systems built to address a community or industry opportunity.
Access. Opportunity. Real-World Impact.
Where learning meets opportunity.
Music to the Ears Initiatives expand learning beyond the classroom by connecting students to technology, culture, entrepreneurship, and community engagement. These initiatives create real-world ecosystems where students can apply their creativity, build skills, and access opportunities that shape their future.
One Nation Under a Groove
Global Music & Arts Cultural Exchange.
A global cultural exchange connecting students through music, arts, and creative expression across cities, states, and countries.
Student Merch & Brand Lab
School-Based Creative Entrepreneurship.
Students design, develop, and launch official school merchandise and brand identities, turning campuses into real-world creative labs.
Project Engage LA
Civic & Community Engagement Initiative.
Empowering students to actively participate in their communities through creative projects, public service, and local partnerships.
Creative Pathways Into the Automotive Industry
Where Creativity Meets Mobility.
Year-round education, field trips, media, and career exploration across the automotive ecosystem.
See Sound
Making Music Education More Inclusive.
A scalable inclusive music education initiative for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students.
Creative Pathways Fund
Investing in Creative Potential.
Expanding access to experiences, education, training, and opportunities that connect young people to the careers shaping the creative economy.
Creative Economy Hubs
Building Opportunity Where People Live.
Place-based ecosystems joining education, workforce, arts, culture, technology, and entrepreneurship.
Together, these initiatives ensure students don't just learn. They participate, create, and lead in the world around them.
Featured initiative
Creative Pathways Into the Automotive Industry
Where Creativity Meets Mobility.
Automotive reads to most young people as engineering or nothing. The industry actually runs on design, media, marketing, music, events, technology, and entrepreneurship - and almost no student is shown that.
Partnership model
How an initiative gets built.
Every initiative here started as one organization with a commitment and no route to a classroom. These are the shapes those partnerships take.
Program sponsorship
Fund a signature program into a school, library, or community setting for a defined period.
Industry activation
Host students in your workplace, send practitioners into classrooms, or build an experience around what your organization does.
Technology and equipment
Put tools, software, or hardware into students' hands, paired with the instruction that makes them usable.
Initiative partnership
Join a multi-year initiative - automotive, inclusive music education, creative economy hubs - as a strategic partner.
Citywide implementation
Work with Music to the Ears on a coordinated Creative Pathways initiative across a city, county, or district.
Partner with Music to the Ears
Bring an initiative to your city, district, or industry.
Initiatives start with a partner who has a commitment and needs an implementation partner to make it real.