The Children’s Trust, our main sponsor, reports stellar results for ACOP Music Programs:

• School Year Music Sessions: Score of 296.3%
• Musical Performances/ Parents for ACOP: Score of 681.8%
• Summer Music Sessions: Score of 837.0%

The American Children’s Orchestras for Peace has received recognition for achievement from local, national and international media. The American Children’s Orchestras for Peace was featured on the NBC Network News Special "Making a Difference” for our creative music programs which are making a difference in the lives of underprivileged children in the poorest communities throughout Miami-Dade County.

NBC’s Mark Potter visited several times and interviewed; children, parents, school principals and the American Children’s Orchestras for Peace staff, and was aired on NBC’s "Making A Difference" Click To Watch Video.

Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has been quoted in saying “ACOP makes the world a better place…” Click To Watch Video

The American Children’s Orchestras for Peace was recently recognized as a "2010 Top-Rated Arts Nonprofit" in the nation by "Great Non-Profits" and has a five star rating with Guidestar.org. ACOP has been awarded a 2011 Exemplary Dade Partner by Miami-Dade County Public Schools.

ACOP’s Music Festival "Children for Peace" is one of the most visible successes of the program. Parents, Children and supporters all come out in large number.  The Music Festival is a showcase for the children to shine. This extraordinary event signifies the peace and friendship between children from different ethnic and religious backgrounds.

ACOP’s Music Festival "Children for Peace" has been performed for two years and gathers around 2,000 people and artists from the community and is covered by more than 35 international publications, national radio and TV shows and other local sources.

Furthermore, ACOP has created employment in the community of parents, who are thus able to contribute more to the success of the program. Working on common goals creates a sense of belonging and reinforces bonds between parents and children as well as between families and the community they live in. Children and parents are given an environment free of violence in which to flourish.

ACOP was created by a concept that music is one of the most powerful forms of communication, and can be utilized as a tool for peace and social change, and has grown organically with real children and parents in the most diverse and poorest communities of our city.  ACOP set out to change the lives of children and have found along the way that what we do creates and transforms communities.  We have found that not only do parents get involved and attend child performances – but so do many extended family members, friends and neighbors, especially among Latin/ Hispanic participants.