Tom John For Guitars Over Guns

Guitars Over Guns (GOGO) offers students from our most vulnerable communities a powerful combination of music education and mentorship with professional musicians to help them overcome hardship, find their voice and reach their potential as tomorrow’s leaders.

Since launching in 2008, GOGO has served more than 8,000 students nationwide, shifting how young people think about the world and their place in it. By sharing skills and experience, rooted in a common passion for music, GOGO inspires students to see a future that’s filled with potential.

Through after-school, community- based programs and trauma-informed mental health support services embedded alongside mentorship, Guitars Over Guns is not only providing quality arts programs and the opportunity to develop creative skills to populations that would not otherwise have access, but also personalized care by adults who are there solely to support their mentees' advancement and development as creative, self-directed, responsible and engaged individuals who are not only on the path to completing their high school education, but also have the capacity to be economically independent and socially, civically engaged leaders far beyond their secondary school education.