Our Impact

Celebrating 25 Years of Impactful Innovation

At Studio T Arts & Entertainment, we’ve spent the last 25 years transforming underserved communities through creative expression, entrepreneurship, and culturally relevant education. What began as a grassroots dance initiative has evolved into a nationally recognized arts and education powerhouse, reaching over 270,000 individuals across 326 school sites in 5 school districts and beyond.

Our Impact by the Numbers:

  • 282,000+ youth served nationwide through schools, camps, residencies, and events

  • 7,362 educators trained and supported

  • 1.8M+ online views of original, youth-produced educational content

  • 124 episodes of our digital learning platform, PassToClass.com, and 104 episodes of our award-winning TV show Get Up and Dance!

  • 82% of students reported improved grades

  • 91% of students felt increased motivation and confidence

  • 72% of teachers noted better classroom behavior

  • 63% of graduates from our first Side Hustle Academy cohort now earn more than their parents

Workforce & Community Empowerment:

  • 42 youth trained, paid, and hired through Side Hustle Academy and LVL UP

  • 27 Hollywood internships and pro opportunities secured

  • 19 minority-owned businesses supported with professional media services

  • $284,000+ in grant funding secured for youth-led and community-based projects

Legacy in Motion:
From launching successful creative careers—including alumni performing with Beyoncé, Usher, and Jennifer Lopez—to building a 44,000 sqft Innovation Factory in Sacramento, we’ve never stopped investing in the future. Our programs blend art, life skills, wellness, financial literacy, and social responsibility to break cycles of poverty and open doors for generations to come.

We’ve reached

23,000 Educators

248,602 Students

326 School Sites

Impact by the Numbers

 

10,760

Students served annually through residencies at schools, community centers, workshops and events

 

82%

Students reported improved grades, however, many are still underperforming and in need of continued support

250,000 +

Online viewership for video tutorials for academic and home environments

 

98%

Students reported greater motivation and confidence.

2,392

Students served monthly during the school and afterschool enrichment programs

 

84%

Teachers / Leaders reported better behavior classroom behavior

Dance Saves Lives

 

Our mission is to help youth develop critical creative and life skills through exposure to the arts. To inspire them to maintain a positive academic focus through partnerships with schools in resource starved communities. We seek to train youth to use the arts as an entrepreneurial tool to generate income, creativity,and healing.

 

Our program is a great motivator for kids and helps teachers get the best from even the most challenged students. We also help families with culturally relevant training to balance their budget, get out of debt, and a community favorite, 'How to Not Go Broke at Christmas'. 

We hold our programs in classrooms after school. Our kids are off the streets...not in gangs, not on drugs...physically healthy and inspired to excel. We build hope, confidence, and teach there is more to life than what they see on their 'blocks'. We are showing our kids, our families and our communities a different approach to life through the arts.

One of our boys, Leon "Kida” Burns, won the national competition 'So You Think You Can Dance'. We've won International, National, and Regional Hip Hop dance titles. We've been named 'Best of Sacramento'. Our kids are working with artists like JLO, Chris Brown, Jabbawokeez, Justin Bieber and many others. 

Through attendance tracking, relationships with academic leaders at each site, polling students, teachers and parents, and existing academic research has allowed us to identify the following core areas of measurable impact of R.E.A.C.H. programs on students.

Lastly, some call what we do innovative, but I call what we do a result of something much simpler, listening with the intent to serve. That is at the core of everything we do, and it fuels our passion to create career paths, empower our families, build up communities.

 

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