Mid-City Community Music

Mid-City Entrepreneurs: MCCM provided 34 high school students in City Heights the chance to start their own ecommerce businesses through the Mid-City Entrepreneurs program. Students were provided tablets and other free tools to help them start their own businesses selling products that featured their original art and told their personal stories and the stories of their communities.. Venues included: 37ECB Community School (City Heights) and Hoover High (City Heights)Topics included: Arts entrepreneurship, graphic design, business management.

Program served 60 students in San Diego's Juvenile Court and Community Schools by guiding them through the process of creating their own digital designs and turning their artworks into t-shirts, mugs, and other merchandise that tell their stories and elevate the voices of their community. This was MCCMs fourth year delivering programming funded by California Art Councils JUMP StArts grant, in cooperation with JCCS, to provide arts workshops to students who are wards of the court, have been refereed by social services.

Through the organizations Mid-City Entrepreneurs program, Mid-City Community Music increased the educational equity of youth in City Heights by providing accelerated learning,social and emotional learning, and mentorship. Students provided with the tools and technology needed to create digital designs that tell their personal stories. Students turned those original designs into merchandise, which they will sell through their self-created e-commerce businesses.