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TRC Academy Open Enrollment launches August 24th!

The Record Co. Community Framework — Goal Met Celebration

Sustaining Boston's Music Ecosystem

🎉 Campaign goal met. Thank you, Boston.

We hit the goal.
Thank you for standing with us.

As we close out the fiscal year, we're grateful for every gift that came in to support this work. Because of this community, the space stays open, the rates stay low, and we're ready for what comes next. Hitting the goal isn't the finish line. It's the proof. The model works, the building is full, and the next thing we build is permanence. If you're just getting here, there's still a real way to be part of what's next.

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Why community space matters

Every month, 3,000 people come through our doors. Some are cutting their first track. Some are running a business out of a room down the hall. Anupe is one of them.

After finishing TRC Academy, Anupe didn't just walk away with a certificate. He stayed to build his business. Today, he books his own studio time, brings in his own clients, and runs his audio production business straight out of our rooms.

This is what happens when the infrastructure holds. Affordable space, real training, and a room full of other people doing the work. Your gift is what keeps it standing, and keeps the next Anupe from being priced out before they start.

Anupe TRC Academy Graduate

Where Your Support Goes

Three places it builds something
that lasts.

94% Completion

Expand the Academy

Fund free training that leads straight to work. The Academy teaches people how to run themselves like a business and how to earn from their craft, and because our studios are affordable enough to work out of, graduates can get going the day they finish. A hundred people graduated in the first year alone.

20 Open Studios

Invest in the Spaces

Keep the gear working and the rates low. Your support helps hold professional studios at $10–40 an hour in a market that charges over a hundred, and protects that price from the commercial pressure that pushes artists out of the city.

400+ Active Spaces

Secure Permanence

55 Morrissey is home to more than 400 creative businesses at 95% occupancy. We're organizing to make that permanent, and this community will be the first to hear when the next milestone lands.

Look at what we built with very little support.
Now imagine a unified front.

Bobby Boyd · Executive Director, The Record Co.

3,000+ Artists Monthly From 131 Greater Boston communities

400+ Creative Businesses Under one roof at 95% full

15 yrs Running And never closed the doors

Common questions

Understanding Your Impact.

How are gifts used across the year?

We work on a steady cycle. Gifts that come in near the close of our fiscal year go straight to holding entry-level rates and funding Academy scholarships, so the next round of artists can walk in and get to work.

Where does my money go?

Into the things that keep this real: affordable space, free training, and the long-term work of securing permanent creative space in Boston. We keep our numbers clean, and we don't claim what we can't point to.

Is 55 Morrissey secure?

While the building itself isn't a permanent solution, we are in the final lap of negotiating an extension to keep this community exactly where it is. Four hundred businesses have proven what this hub can be. We're fighting to secure its future, and when there's news, our community hears it first.

Is my donation tax-deductible?

Yes. The Record Co. is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. All donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.

What's Next: Amplify Boston

We proved the model.
Now we build permanence.

Amplify Boston is the next chapter, and there will be real ways to be part of it. If you want in early, here's where the biggest partners fit:

Organizational Partnership

Bring your community programs into our buildings at partner rates, and put your participants inside Boston's largest creative community.

Real Estate & Development

We're in active conversations about the long-term future of our space. TRC brings 95% occupancy and 15 years of operating proof to the table.

Endowment & Legacy Giving

Help secure the permanent future of TRC. A legacy gift keeps this infrastructure open and affordable for the next generation of creators. We're not asking you to fund a year. We're asking you to fund a hundred.

Academy Scholarships

Name a scholarship or fund a full cohort. It's about as direct as an investment in local creative careers gets.

Building the path forward,
together.

Your support keeps professional creative space open at $10–40 an hour across Greater Boston, and helps us make it permanent.

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We hit the goal. Thank you for standing with us.

Three places it builds somethingthat lasts.