Music For Everyone (MFE) has announced that $153,003 in grants has been awarded to more than 50 schools and community organizations. Through its annual Instrument Grant Program and Well-Being Grants, MFE has provided direct financial support and will distribute over 1,000 instruments to enrich music education across Lancaster County at an event at Benchmark Construction on Thursday, July 31.

The 2025 Instrument Grant recipients are Abraham Lincoln Middle School, Bear Creek School, Brecknock Elementary School, Brownstown Elementary School, Burrowes Elementary School, Carter and MacRae Elementary School, Centerville Middle School, Central Manor Elementary School, Donegal Primary School, E.R. Martin Middle School, East Petersburg Elementary School, Elizabethtown Area High School, Elizabethtown Area Middle School, Farmdale Elementary School, Fritz Elementary School, Garden Spot High School, George Washington Elementary School, Gerald G. Huesken Middle School, Hans Herr Elementary School, Hazel I. Jackson Middle School, Hempfield High School, Highland Elementary School, John Beck Elementary School, John Bonfield Elementary School, J.P. McCaskey High School, Kissel Hill Elementary School, Lafayette Elementary School, Lampeter Elementary School, Lampeter-Strasburg High School, Landisville Intermediate School, Landisville Middle School, Lititz Elementary School, M.L.K. Elementary School, Paradise Elementary School, Price Elementary School, Reynolds Middle School, Salisbury Elementary School, Smith Middle School, Smith-Wade-El Elementary School, Smoketown Elementary School, Taylor Middle School, Warwick High School, Warwick Middle School, Wharton Elementary School, Wheatland Middle School, and Wickersham Elementary School.

The Well-Being Grant recipients are Aaron's Acres; African Young Men's Program; Boys & Girls Club of Lancaster; United Disabilities Services Foundation; SWAN - Scaling Walls, A Note at a Time; Lancaster Recreation Commission; Lancaster-Lebanon IU13; and Schreiber Center for Pediatric Development.

2025 marks the 19th consecutive year that MFE has awarded grants. Since its inception in 2006, the organization has invested more than $1.57 million in local music initiatives through grant awards. Grants are awarded to support programs that increase access to music, typically for underserved populations in Lancaster County as well as programs that introduce children and youths to music. Since 2006, all of Lancaster's 16 school districts have received a portion of the grants that MFE has awarded.

Music For Everyone is a Lancaster-based charitable benefit organization that exists to cultivate the power of music as an educational and community well-being tool to transform lives, schools, and communities in Lancaster County.

For more information, visit http://www.musicforeveryone.org.