Save Our Kids' Music (SOKM) is a Ventura County non-profit dedicated to keeping music education alive for children, and it’s been operating for about 20 years. But around 2008, the writing was on the wall--state funding for music education was going to be slashed, yet again. SOKM chairman Karen Gatchel decided she and the organization needed to up the ante and get better organized if they were going to meet this challenge. And through the services offered by the Ventura County Community Foundation, SOKM did just that.