Reflecting on 2025: Our Annual Report Is Here!
As we close another impactful year, we’re excited to share our 2025 Annual Report, a comprehensive look at what we achieved together, the challenges we navigated, and the meaningful progress we made toward our mission. This year’s report highlights key accomplishments, financial transparency, inspiring stories, and the strategic direction that’s guiding us into the future. […]
PIF Students Bring Magic to Music Millennium
Concert winds up GiveGuide! campaign PORTLAND – George Miller, an accomplished pianist and composer, stood on the balcony of Music Millennium, the oldest and largest record store in the Pacific Northwest, and spoke to customers throughout the store about how music education changed his life. “Access to music education can really make a child’s […]
PIF Students Play Prelude at Symphony Show
Children share guitar tunes with lobby audience PORTLAND – Prior to his performance in the lobby of the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, Sullivan Heard made sure he sported a red bowtie and a dark sport jacket. “I have to wear this for my performance,” he told his mother, Lexi Heard, as […]
Children learn how sound ‘looks’ at OMSI-PIF camp
PORTLAND – Dozens of children are learning this summer that the way they say something is more important than the fact they say it. So says Travis Johnson, Play It Forward’s Programs Manager, who is leading a “Musical Science” summer day camp at the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, 1945 SE Water Ave. Each […]
Recital ends school year on a high note!
KairosPDX community enjoys children’s music PORTLAND – Play It Forward Lead Music Instructor Supremia Bostick took a moment to sum up how she was feeling after children she had taught all year performed at a recital. “It was incredible,” she said. “The students really pulled through and showed out.” More than 150 people attended the […]
Annual Report 2024
2024 Annual Report
PIF Wraps Up Year of Growth, Prepares for 2025
Play It Forward ended 2024 on a high note, having enrolled more students than ever before as well as preparing to grow in 2025. Over the past year, PIF expanded its programming into a third Portland public school, hosted its first ever summer program at the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, and has been […]
New Student Survey: PIF Students Talk About Inspiration to Take Lessons
Play It Forward students expressed a wide range of positive reactions to their classes in a recent survey. PIF gave a list of five questions to children enrolled in lessons at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and KairosPDX schools earlier this year. The children indicated everything from a desire for fun to a desire to […]
Enrollment Efforts Bear Fruit & Student Success Survey
Play It Forward’s latest in-school enrollment figures highlight efforts to attract new students as well as establish a new school-program in the nonprofit’s newest elementary education partner. Programs Manager Travis Johnson teaches at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Portland, one of PIF’s three partner elementary schools. He notes that PIF made a concerted effort […]
