Through numerous programs, performances and outreach initiatives, Boyer continues to make a difference in the community.  What follows is a list of Boyer community initiatives, followed by detailed descriptions:

• Temple Music Preparatory Division
• Community Music Scholars Program
• Arts & Quality of Life Research Center
• Music Therapy Club, in which students volunteer to work with seniors and special needs communities
• Instrument Drive to benefit Temple partnership schools
• Community concert series at Temple Ambler
• 200+ free public concerts each year
• Essentially Ellington High School jazz competition.  Held annually at Temple and hosted by Boyer's Department of Jazz Studies
• MENC-sponsored arts camp
• Annual High School Choral Festival
• Student exchange program with the Hanoi Conservatory
• Student volunteer, dedicating their time to numerous causes, from Katrina rescue efforts to Susan. G. Komen Race for the Cure
• Subsidized tickets and transportation to Carnegie Hall, Lincoln and Kimmel Centers for Boyer performances

TEMPLE MUSIC PREPARATORY DIVISION

For more than three decades, Temple Music Prep, a nationally recognized flagship program for arts education, has offered a myriad of learning opportunities in music and dance for both young people and adults.

• The Community Music Scholars Program provides individual instrumental instruction, music theory lessons and dance classes to Philadelphia Title I elementary school students, for which85% of costs are subsidized

• Center for Gifted Young Musicians provides classes in musicianship and ensemble opportunities for students of exceptional promise.  Several students were selected to participate in National Public Radio’s top-rated From the Top radio program in 2007 & 2009

• Early Childhood Music Foundation and Music Therapy Clinic programs serve as direct conduits between the community and Boyer's research and curriculum resources

ARTS & QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH CENTER

Under the leadership of Boyer’s Dean, Dr. Robert T. Stroker, The Arts and Quality of Life Research Center was established in 2004 to promote multidisciplinary research, training and innovative programs that demonstrate the unique role of the arts in enhancing human well-being.  The Center’s research findings will effect policy changes on institutional, state and national levels and is quickly becoming an international model for arts and quality of life research, education and information.

Arts at Your Side, the community service program of the Arts and Quality of Life Research Center, serves as a distinctive model for outreach initiatives, providing arts experiences to disenfranchised local populations, including:

The Arts and Quality of Life Research Center is garnering national attention.  Recent grants have been awarded by the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Music Therapy Association and Johnson & Johnson/Society for the Arts in Healthcare.

Instrument Drive to benefit Philadelphia public schools

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity is sponsoring an instrument drive to benefit students at Temple's public partnership schools.  If you have an old instrument, and would like to donate it, contact instruments@temple.edu to arrange pick up and drop off.  To receive a form for tax purposes, contact David Brown at dpbrown@temple.edu.