Why these children?
- Agnes Little Elementary School serves students from a neighborhood with limited resources, but
boundless aspirational capital
- Pawtucket’s childhood poverty rate is 12% higher than the state average; we recognize that access
to
affordable afterschool childcare and high quality, enriching programming presents a significant
barrier
to families in areas of concentrated poverty, resulting in an arts opportunity gap
- Agnes Little is a designated community school and has the infrastructure to create deeper, more
impactful programming for students and their families
- Pawtucket public schools are proven, dedicated partners of the RI Philharmonic Music Education
Programs
- Proximity to and enrollment within the RI Philharmonic Music School will help to ensure success
- JMW Arts High School, the district’s performing arts school with auditioned-based enrollment,
shares
facilities with Jenks Jr. High School and is next door to the Agnes Little Elementary School. JMW
graduates 98% of its students (compared to the state average of 85%)
How can you support the dream?
Your support of Victoria’s Dream Project will enable over 50 children to build a foundation of
achievement through the support of an entire musical community that believes in them and nurtures their
aspirations.
What is Victoria’s Dream Project?
Comprehensive String Program
Agnes Little Elementary, Pawtucket
- Over 85 children in grades 3, 4, 5 have participated
- 3 hours of group lessons each week
- Beginner classes for 3rd grade
- Intermediate ensemble for 4th and 5th grade
- An optional mentor program for returning 6th and 7th grade students
- Instrument provided at no cost to school or students and their families
- Free participation in Pawtucket’s Childhood Opportunity Zone (COZ), providing 4 days of safe
afterschool care, along with a small meal
- Over 340 combined hours of instrumental instruction and academic support annually
- Guaranteed free participation in the RI Philharmonic Youth Orchestra programming for all
students
who pass their audition
Strategic Goals
- Respond to the cultural and educational needs of our community to establish a strong musical
future
for our organization and overall landscape
- Promote community actualization in our music school through intentional diversification of the
student body by developing a comprehensive instrumental feeder program
- Ensure expanded learning time with quality afterschool instruction and performance
opportunities
and continue to provide free private study and youth orchestra all the way through 12th grade
- Provide a pathway to students for acceptance into the Jacqueline M. Walsh School for the
Performing
Arts (JMW) in Pawtucket, R.I.
Initial Sucesses
- More than 44% of students from our first three years of programming have passed auditions for RI
Philharmonic
Youth Orchestra Beginner Strings Ensemble. 20% of those students have since passed auditions for the next level Intermediate Strings Ensemble.
- Over 50% of our students in our first three years of programming have been offered full or partial scholarships to study at our Community Music School
- As of 2019, students in the Victoria’s Dream Project have performed nearly 30 times for
thousands of community members; students have even performed the National Anthem for a Pawtucket Red Sox
game
Benefits of Music Education
Prepare students to learn
- Enhances fine motor skills
- Prepares the brain for achievement
- Fosters superior working memory
- Cultivates better critical thinking skills
Facilitate academic achievement
- Improves analytical and evaluative skills
- Boosts literacy and English Language Arts (ELA) skills
- Advances math achievement
- Improves average SAT scores
Develop creative capacities for lifelong success
- Promotes intrinsic motivation
- Sharpens student attentiveness
- Strengthens perseverance
- Equips student with skills to be creative problem solvers
- Supports self-esteem and better study habits
About Victoria Alviti
A vibrant, larger-than-life twenty-two-year-old, Victoria quite literally lived for music. Just weeks
before she passed away, she shared her vision to create a foundation committed to keeping music programs in
schools. She wanted students to learn the value and beauty of music – and for teachers to have the
tools to teach them. She felt that when creativity has the means to thrive, the world can be a more
positive, harmonious place. IT was her belief that every student should have the opportunity to experience
the positive benefits music can bring.
VICTORIA ALVITI FOUNDATION
victoriaalviti.org • 401.374.5778 •
[email protected]
RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL
667 WATERMAN AVENUE, EAST PROVIDENCE, 02914 • riphil.org • 401.248.7001