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Band Service Projects

There are several projects you can do with your band program. *NOTE: Many of these lists are featured in our organizations' Guide to Memberships.*

• Provide sweatshirts, gloves, T-shirts, etc. to band members
• Provide water and Popsicle during practices
• Polish shoes before performances
• Distribute uniforms and do repairs on them when needed
• Host social events
• Provide orange juice and donuts on Parents Day
• Provide a reception for parents
• Institute a Band Buddy program
• Prepare lunches for away trips
• Repair instruments
• Clean band room
• Repaint practice field yard markers
• Work registration and housing tables during band camp
• Build podium for director or drum major(s)
• Offer band scholarships
• Move equipment
• Host Alumni reception during Homecoming weekend
• Help freshmen move into their dorms
• Institute and recruit for an indoor guard program
• Clean trash the band has left behind
• Provide drinks and apples for home and away games
• Bring hospital kids to football games
• Have sectional competition during band camp with prizes
• Host a semi-formal for the band
• Clean uniforms regularly
• Provide an escort service after band at night (walking to dorms, cars, etc. for safety)
• Commission works
• Build shadow boxes for jazz band
• Clean up the music building
• Set up stage for rehearsals and breakdowns
• Host blood drives
• Offer babysitting services for children of band members
• Offer student-tutoring services for members of the band
• Provide refreshments for intermissions of concerts
• Establish band store for reeds, valve oil, etc.
• Tape concerts
• Host MENC conferences
• Raise money for band tours
• Establish band rosters and/or telephone directories
• Donate money to replenish music library
• Build music cabinets
• Conduct color guard clinics
• Move equipment for pep band
• Paint filing cabinets
• Do press releases for concerts
• Paint practice rooms
• Have after school programs for community
• Hold public concerts at area mall
• Collect food for community
• Have march-a-thons
• Help at homeless shelters
• Keep school instrument inventory
• Help with indoor guard shows
• Clean and repair instrument room
• Have members work in the band office for an hour a week
• Participate in the Adapt-a-Highway program
• Clean instruments
• Offer lessons to high school students
• Work stage crew
• Sell tickets at band performances
• Host receptions
• Do publicity for concerts
• Warm up the band for the director
• Paint faces for pep band
• Bake cookies for trips
• Have pep band for Special Olympics
• Host guest bands
• Organize pep rallies
• Offer scholarships for the music department
• Provide drinks for the pep band
• Serenade at dorms for people
• Clean the music department truck
• Purchase new band folders
• Build steps for tuba loading
• Arrange and compose new songs
• Send out flyers and posters for senior recitals
• Make flowers for the director
• Hold Band Banquets
• Provide pep band to greet teams after a trip
• Keep band records i.e. photos, VCR tapes
• Provide moral support for bands through attendance at performances
• Send needs to nursing homes and orphanages
• Purchase new equipment or instruments
• Recycle
• Produce a Band Newsletter
• Provide transportation to social events

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