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Purple Silk Music Education Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization | Tax ID (EIN): 94-3319190

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Purple Silk Music Education Foundation

Address

Purple Silk Music Education Foundation
484 Lake Park Ave.  Suite #366
Oakland, CA 94610

Thank you for supporting our students!

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Your financial support helps us hire and develop our music teachers, create costumes, purchase and repair instruments, subsidize a student’s educational experience, and bring in guest artists to develop new repertoires.

Special recognition

We are grateful for the generous support of everyone who has contributed to our mission, including:

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  • National Endowment for the Arts

  • California Arts Council

  • Oakland Cultural Funding Program

  • The San Francisco Foundation

  • Alliance for California Traditional Arts

  • Alameda County Arts Commission

  • Bill and Margaret Ong Seah

  • UC Berkeley Chinese Alumni Foundation

  • Guang-Yu Chinese Culture and Art Center

  • Friends of the Purple Silk Music Education Foundation