Another way you can help Sounds of Hope Project without spending a dime is by using Amazon Smile. As you do your holiday shopping this year please sign up for AmazonSmile so that Sounds of Hope Project can receive donations from your eligible Amazon purchases at no extra cost you. If you shop on Amazon, please go to smile.amazon.com and select Sounds of Hope Project from the list of participating charities. The AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases to Sounds of Hope Project. You will see eligible products marked “Eligible for AmazonSmile donation” on their product detail pages.

You pay nothing extra, and SOHP gets help with our mission.

If you’ve already signed up for AmazonSmile, you can change your charitable organization to Sounds of Hope Project by signing into smile.amazon.com, going to your account, and selecting the option to change your charity using the navigation at the top of the page.

Thanks for using this easy and painless way to help us bring hope to others!

GivingTuesday.org will donate to organizations participating in their My Giving Story event. To read the story of our founder, Mary Lou Lydecker. and vote for her entry please go to .http//goo.gl/qHGXex. That will take you directly to Mary Lou’s picture and story on the GivingTuesday, MyGivingStory site. You will be asked to check “I am not a robot” then enter your email address. Mary Lou’s story will appear. Click on “vote”in the upper left corner.

Thank you for supporting SOHP and its mission. Please vote once a day from now until December 7.

Sounds of Hope Project has released its new CD, Rays of Hope. Previous blog posts explained the process of developing, recording, and producing our newest CD. It is finally here!

This CD of piano music combines the talents of our founder, Mary Lou Lydecker, and Mark Graham, pianist and piano technician at Baldwin Wallace University.

The music has a flavor of “classical meets turn of the century popular program music,” with selections ranging from upbeat to lilting, from love songs to contemplative songs. The classical genre on this CD includes Debussy’s Two Arabesques, Reverie, and Clare de lune. The more popular pieces range from Hawthorne’s Whispering Hope to Nevin’s Un Giotto in Venezia (a four song set).

To donate a CD to the organization of your choice and receive a copy for yourself as SOHP’s thank you, please call Mary Lou at 440-582-4350 or email us at soundsofhopeproj@aol.com to request more information.