Great stuff. As an arts educator, I can speak first hand to the power and importance of a healthy arts program in school. A student who takes an art class 4 years has a 94 percent chance of graduating on time. Schools with art programs have 72 percent less graffiti and property destruction. Attendance rates of school with art programs have a much higher average than those without.

To anyone who has benefited from the arts in school, we are preaching to the choir. Those who do not subscribe to the power of art in schools, I find them often missing something in their soul that I pity more than get angry at.

This organization is the vanguard for maintaining that idea and I am proud to give what I can to help support it. Thank you for everything you do.