Sahuaro High School Band

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The Sahuaro High School Cougar Marching Band needs your help!  We are in need of funds to help reduce the cost of Band Camp and to assist with the purchase of new instruments.  You can help us by encouraging your family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers to donate their tax credit to the Sahuaro Band. 

The State of Arizona has authorized a tax credit up to $400 for income tax payers filing jointly and a $200 tax credit for individuals filing single.   When you file your state income taxes in 2010, you will either receive a refund of your tax credit amount, or your tax bill will be reduced by the amount you paid!  This is a way for your Arizona tax funds to be paid directly to a public school of your choice.   This is a win-win program for our schools and our tax-payers. 

     If you have not already contributed your tax credit funds, please consider donating to the Sahuaro High School Band.  If you have, please help us by soliciting donations from your family and friends who do not have children in school.  We welcome ANY amount that will help defray the costs to our students.  Thank you so very much for your consideration of this request!

                                     *TUSD now accepts TAX CREDIT DONATIONS using your credit card!!!   Go to:   http://www.tusd.k12.az.us/contents/distinfo/aztaxcredit/index.html - VERY IMPORTANT! Please make sure to "check" SAHUARO/FINE ARTS/BAND/ENTER STUDENT'S FULL NAME IN COMMENT AREA.  It's very easy and you instantly get a receipt back.  Don't for get to forward your receipt to treasurer@sahuaroband.com .

If you would like to contribute via check, please staple the check made payable to Sahuaro High School—Band to this form.  Your social security number should be on the check in the memo line.  You can mail this form and your check to:                                                                                                                                                    

                             Sahuaro High School Cougar Band

                             c/o Phillip Switzer, Director

                             545 N. Camino Seco

                             Tucson,  Arizona  85710

Your 2009 tax receipt will be mailed to you. 

Please provide us with the following information:

 

Contributor’s name:   ___________________________

Student if applicable: ___________________________

Mailing address:        ___________________________

                                      ___________________________

 

The students thank you for your contribution and for making the following possible for our Sahuaro High School Students.

78% of Americans feel learning a musical instrument helps students perform better in other subjects.

88% of Americans believe participation in music helps teach children discipline.

96% of respondents believe participation in a school band is a good way for children to develop teamwork skills.

95% of Americans in a 2003 Gallup Poll believe that music is a key component in a child's well-rounded education; three quarters of those surveyed feel that schools should mandate music education.

71% of Americans surveyed by the Gallup Poll believe that teenagers who play an instrument are less likely to have disciplinary problems.

Gallup Poll, "American Attitudes Toward Music," 2003