Taylor Swift is known to be incredibly generous with her money, and her most recent actions prove this, once again, to be true. Swift committed to giving the proceeds from her hit single “Welcome to New York” to NY public schools when she first released it in October of 2014.
She is putting the money into the already existing program called SING, which enables high school kids to put on annual musical productions in a competition between schools. Her $50,000 donation will allow ten more schools to join in the program in 2016, bringing the number of schools to 20.
As city Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña said, “This is a wonderful program for developing passions in the arts and for building school and community spirit. The SING students are going to gain skills … that they can use in college and throughout their lives.”