AMAZON SMILE
Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 8.  If you shop at smile.amazon.com then Amazon will donate to our District (Music Teachers National Association Inc OhioMTA Central Eastern District). Use the link below in your email, on your website, and in social media and you will be directed to great Mother’s Day gift ideas in support of our District.

AmazonSmile Mother’s Day Link: http://smile.amazon.com/gp/charity/homepage.html?orig=%2Fgp%2Fbrowse.html%3Fnode%3D502659011&ein=31-1590767

More information about the AmazonSmile program, and how to enroll in it, can be found here:  https://www.ceomta.org/support-us/amazon-smile

KROGER COMMUNITY REWARDS
It’s time to re-enroll for the new year of Kroger Community Rewards. You will need to re-enroll in the month of April in order to continue contributing to our organization through the May 1st 2016 to April 30th 2017 year. 1% of purchases come back to OhioMTA Central East District.  Dollars raised count towards matching funds.

Organization Name: MUSIC TEACHERS NAT’L CENTRAL E.DIST.
Organization Number: 81984

For a participant to re-enroll their card they simply go to www.krogercommunityrewards.com
· Click “sign-in”
· Put in their email address and password that they used to enroll their card.
· Click on participants name at the top right, scroll to the bottom for Community Rewards.
· Put in the group number or part of the name of the organization.
· Choose the correct organization.
· Click Enroll.
You are now enrolled for the May 1st 2016 to April 30th 2017 year of Kroger Community Rewards.
If you are having an issue with your password and or email address please 1-800-KROGERS, press 5 for customer service, press 5 to speak to a customer service representative.

If it’s the first time they are registering, the member will need to set up their account first.
· For a member to enroll their card the simply go to www.krogercommunityrewards.com
· Click “create an account”
· Put in their email address and password. Confirm their password
· Enter plus card OR alt ID number
· Go to Community Rewards (near bottom)
· Follow through the steps. (Name, address, etc.)
· Put in the group number or part of the name of the organization.
· Choose the correct organization.
· Click Enroll.
You are now enrolled for the May 1st 2016 to April 30th 2017 year of Kroger Community Reward.

We are still collecting iPods for the Forest Hills Center patients. The pink (shoe box) collection box is at Graves Music. If your students/families will be there for Piano Guild or any other event, you can email the following information to them.

As a gesture to the Forest Hills Center (75 long term Alzheimer patients), we are collecting iPods for them. They currently have 6 iPods. Could you help in this cause by donating any used iPod, iPod shuffle, nano, or mp3 players you no longer want or need? Even the 1st generation is ok! Just drop them off in the marked box at:

Graves Piano & Organ Co.
5798 Karl Road • Columbus, OH 43229
614-579-6555

The stirring documentary “Alive Inside” (see link below) follows social worker Dan Cohen, founder of the nonprofit organization Music & Memory, as he demonstrates music’s ability to combat memory loss and restore a deep sense of self to those suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Patients use iPods and enthusiastically listen to their favorite music from an earlier time in their lives.

Visit this YouTube site for a short overview of the impact music is making on residents across the country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7-owbPzKzE

http://www.aliveinside.us – Audience Award 2014 Sundance Film Festival

Miriam Brown
Out & About Chairman