Make it at TRC: Help Keep Boston’s Creative Workforce Here
Make it at TRC: Help Keep Boston’s Creative Workforce Here
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The Record Company Inc. · 501(c)(3) · EIN 27-1238513. Gifts are tax-deductible to the extent the law allows.
Studio hours at $10 to $40. A free 12-week Academy. A home for 400+ creative businesses.
Arts has always been advocacy, and that is why it is under constant attack. We believe deeply in this community. So we built the rooms, the training and the footing it needs to stand on.
Bobby Boyd
Executive Director, The Record Co.
A free 12-week Academy in sound engineering, music production and music business. Graduates start at $18 to $26 an hour.
960 Mass Ave has 4 recording studios, 11 rehearsal rooms, 4 production suites and a community room. $10 to $40 an hour.
88 rooms and 400+ creative businesses at 55 Morrissey, running at 95% occupancy. We are doing the planning work to give them a home that lasts.
Anupe finished TRC Academy, started his own audio production business out of our rooms, and this fall stood up in front of the new cohort to tell them how he did it.
100 graduates in year one. 40 new students started this fall.
We asked 129 businesses at 55 Morrissey. 70% are earning or building toward income. 37% would significantly scale back without TRC. Source: TRC survey, 2026.
We named the levels after the people who make a record. Each one pays for seats in a 12-week Academy class, and we run three classes a year.
Covers one student's full seat in a 12-week Academy class. You get a studio tour.
Become a ProducerCovers four seats in a class. Everything in Producer, plus a seat in a TRC Academy class.
Become an EngineerA multi-year partner who backs classes all year. We run three cohorts a year. Everything in Engineer, plus sitting in on a session.
Talk to usUse the quick-grant tool above or recommend your grant to The Record Company Inc. (not Friends of the Record Co., which is separate). EIN 27-1238513.
Email development@therecordco.org for transfer instructions.
Payable to The Record Company Inc., 960 Massachusetts Ave, Boston, MA 02118.
Email development@therecordco.org with the name.
Studio, audio or instrument gear? Tell us what you have.
Ask your HR team for a matching form. Use The Record Company Inc. and EIN 27-1238513.
Keep the rooms going for the next generation. Talk to development.
Rooms start at $10 an hour. Ask about gift cards.
Questions about a gift? Talk to Pablo Velez Jr., Director of Development, at pablo@therecordco.org.
Yes. Each class runs 12 weeks across three tracks, we run three a year, and students pay no tuition. Each seat costs us $2,500, and gifts cover it.
Yes, to the extent the law allows. The Record Company Inc. is a 501(c)(3). EIN 27-1238513.
Yes, any time. Email development@therecordco.org and we will take care of it.
Please do. 960 Mass Ave is open 10am to midnight, Tuesday to Sunday.
