OUR $1,000,000 COMMITMENT TO THE ARTS The Young Americans believe in the power of music and the impact it has throughout the world. We use music as a tool to help students believe in themselves. This powerful mission is being accomplished through our 3-day signature workshops.

After more than 20 years of experience, we’ve worked with over 750,000 students throughout more than 2,500 schools to shine a light on music education.

Each 3-day tour stop brings directly to you an incredible combination of high-energy, team-building, confidence- boosting FUN! Using music as the tool, our cast of specially trained college age performer/teachers provides a safe and fun atmosphere for your students to learn, explore, create, and GROW! All participants are encouraged to be themselves and will learn an hour-long variety show to perform for their family and friends. The final experience on stage alongside The Young Americans will last a lifetime.

What is Turn Up The Music? It’s a campaign to bring our Outreach Tour to students in schools throughout the country. Based upon registration, Turn Up The Music donates money back to the school’s fine arts programs in addition to multiple scholarships for the workshop.

What can your students look forward to?

The Workshop & Finale Show: The comprehensive performance workshops cover everything from vocal techniques, dance, and comedy improvisation, to stage movement, sound, lighting, and more. Hundreds of students learn to work together, to respect each other’s strengths, and to discover their own potential.

Classes to boost Self-Confidence, & Leadership: In addition, the students will take classes in the areas of voice, dance, songwriting, and performance (acting and improv). Throughout the entire three days, we’ll focus on the students as individuals. Our goal is to encourage every student we meet to become more self-confident. Music is our tool to help them dream and focus on their individual goals for the future.

Common Core Elements: This program helps students develop the soft skills needed for college and career readiness while utilizing inquiry learning to provide a unique real world experience which connects to each student’s education. Further examples and information are available.

After three days of intensive performance instruction, it’s show time! The Young Americans perform the first act, and then to the astonishment of parents, friends, teachers, and administrators, the participating students perform the second act with The Young Americans. Yes, The Young Americans will be performing alongside the participants, but the students will be the ones in front singing, dancing, and performing the variety show and solos they’ve learned.

What are people saying?

CELEBRITY SHOUT-OUTS: www.youngamericans.org/shoutout

• Walk the Moon | “We think it’s so important to keep music in schools. Let’s do this Young Americans!” • Paramore | “Rock On Young Americans, let’s keep music in schools where it belongs!” • Jason Mraz | “Thank you for doing what you do. Keep music in schools... keep rock’in!”

PARENTS, TEACHERS, ORGANIZATION SHOUT-OUTS: www.youngamericans.org/references

• Teacher | “After hosting this program four times, they prove time and time again, that this benefits both schools without great programs and schools with incredible programs. It’s great to take a break in our annual events to host a program that helps our students grow and work together as a team.” • Parent | “I never realized this program would be as incredible as it was. My children absolutely loved it.” • Organization | “Each student walks away with a new sense of self, relationship building, and personal accomplishment.”

Videos • The Young Americans® | Turn Up The Music | View what students learn in just 3 days!

Turn Up The Music Donation Levels | Turn Up The Music will donate money back to your programs based on the level of students registered for the workshop.

• 50 STUDENTS...... $250 • 100 STUDENTS...... $500 • 150 STUDENTS...... $750 • 200 STUDENTS...... $1,500 • 250 STUDENTS...... $1,750 + $1 / SHOW TICKET • 300 STUDENTS...... $2,000 + $1 / SHOW TICKET + CHANCE TO WIN $8,000 • 350 STUDENTS...... $3,000 + $1 / SHOW TICKET + CHANCE TO WIN $8,000

Once you’ve hosted a workshop, you are now eligible to host a Summer Camp, in which schools, on average, can raise $6,500 - $15,000.

STEP ONE • UNDERSTANDING WHAT’S A PART OF HOSTING THE TOUR

Delegate Status & Promotion: As a delegate, you’d host The Young Americans and Turn Up The Music. We’d provide a high-quality music education workshop for your students in 3rd-12th grades. The workshop culminates in a terrific two-hour show of your students performing with The Young Americans. You’ll be listed as a Gold Record school on our website and facebook. This list promotes and signifies schools going above and beyond to bring quality music education to their students as well as valuing how their students feel about themselves amongst their peers.

Money Donated: As the host school, you have the preference of where the Turn Up The Music donation funds go. It’s up to you, and we can provide scenarios from what other schools have chosen to do for their music programs.

Student Scholarships: You’ll have first access to the scholarship money from Turn Up The Music for your workshop. This money is used for students that cannot afford to take the workshop. We’ll provide a scholarship application that will then be passed onto you to determine which students you’d like to receive help. We can send out notifications to them for you thereafter.

Host Families & Food: Our cast will need food and housing for the duration of the event. We’ve been staying in families across the world since the Outreach Tours began in 1992. As one of our favorite aspects about tour, the relationships that are made last a lifetime. At least two Young Americans stay in each family (est. 19-20 families per tour cast). We provide tools to help your coordinator collect information for the volunteer families. Each family will receive complimentary tickets in our VIP seating for the final performance as a thank-you. In most scenarios, you’d only need to provide two meals out of the entire stay, because host families can help provide the rest through packed lunches. Schools have been able to provide those two cast meals through community restaurants they have a relationship with or potlucks with parents/music booster clubs.

Facility Space: The host is responsible for providing a facility for the event. Start with deciding what the main venue for the performance would be. Gym or Theatre? Can we have access to it for all three days? Additional teaching spaces? (e.g. choir room, band room, small theatre, wrestling room) We only need two of these additional spaces during Day One and Two when we split up to teach different groups at the same time.

Registration: There is no fee to the school for the workshop or fundraiser. Instead, we charge $59 to students who’d like to participate. This includes registration for all three days and a Young Americans t-shirt. Students wear this as their costume for the show. It has become a memento for students; many choose to have it signed by The Young Americans and their friends after the show. Our online registration site can help with any parent

who’d like to pay via credit card. Parents that would like to pay by cash or check can do so with your school. Our business manager can then invoice the school for any funds collected.

Show Tickets: Tickets for the final performance are sold by The Young Americans: $10/adult and $8/student. Our staff will take care of this upon arrival.

STEP TWO • RESERVE & CONFIRM YOUR DATE

• Submit your contact information to our Booking Director: www.youngamericans.org/booknow • Download and view Tools for Schools. Tools for Schools is an informational guide of materials to host The Young Americans and Turn Up The Music: www.youngamericans.org/resources • Check out these references & celebrity shout-outs: www.youngamericans.org/references • Find dates that may work for your school. Most take place on either a Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday (show night) or a Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (show night). Download the sample schedule for both options: www.youngamericans.org/schedules

Upcoming Tour Schedules

Fall Tour 2015 | Sept – Nov • Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Missouri, and Wyoming

Spring Tour 2016 | Jan – March • Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Missouri, Montana, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and Western Canada

Fall Tour 2016 | Sept – Nov • Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Central Canada

Spring Tour 2017 | Jan – March • Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Central Canada

Fall Tour 2017 | Sept – Nov • Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia

Spring Tour 2018 | Jan – March • Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, South Carolina, and North Carolina

Things to think about when checking with your school: What is the main venue? Gym or Theatre? Can we have access to it for all three days? Additional teaching spaces? We only need two more spaces during Day One and Two (e.g. choir room, band room, small theatre, wrestling room).

Successful schools have focused on collaborating (i.e. schools inside and outside of their district, dance studios, performing arts academies). Try to find a date that works with their students’ schedules as well. When your date is solidified, we’ll begin creating custom online registration, posters, and flyers for you.

STEP THREE • ASSEMBLE YOUR TEAM

Here are positions that we recommend you delegating to parents/teachers who are a part of your team. As a thank you, we can provide free student registration and show tickets for your team members.

Elementary School Promo Middle School Promo This team is responsible for distributing High School Promo posters/flyers/emails to each school's students.

Specialty Organizations Responsible for distributing posters/flyers/ emails to all other organizations (e.g. radio commercials, TV specials, press release, dance studios, performing arts academies).

Host Family Coordinator Responsible for coordinating families that would like to be a host family for 2 or more YAs during the event.

Sponsors & Parent Volunteers Responsible for coordinating parent volunteers for the workshop (parents that can help check-in students or monitor meal breaks). Responsible for utilizing connections with local sponsors to raise funds towards the student scholarship fund.

Some of these positions can be combined, but our most successful workshops have someone in each of these roles.

STEP FOUR • PROMOTE & FOLLOW UP

Promote: Student Registration drives the success of your fundraiser. Think about what marketing works best for your community. If it’s not something we’ve done before, we’re open to taking your direction and providing support. We’ll provide videos, registration flyers, and posters to distribute to classrooms and organizations.

Advance Promotion Tour: About 2-4 weeks prior to your workshop date, a small team of YAs will come visit your community for one day. They can speak with classes, conduct assembly shows, radio spots, or ideas you have that would help spread the word.

Local Sponsorship: Find sponsors for YA meals and student scholarships. Our scholarship money, notated above in Step One, is the groundwork for you to challenge local businesses to jump in. We are more than willing to provide advertising opportunities to them on our projection screens during the show and in the program we hand out to every audience member.

Follow Up: Follow up with every school to help you advertise. School life can get busy and everyone needs a nice reminder when deadlines are coming up.

STEP FIVE • THE EVENT BEGINS. ENJOY!

Don’t forget that this three-day event can go by fast. As a new member of our family, we want you to feel comfortable to be involved as little or as much as you’d like during the workshop. We'd like to introduce you to the cast and thank you for believing in the power of music. You work all year to provide so many amazing opportunities for your students, and that needs to be congratulated.

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