Nonprofit studio setup

I am staring a nonprofit recording studio for troubled youth. The goal is to curtail criminal behavior by allowing kids to record and teaching them how to record. I myself am not much of an engineer.



I am coming up with a budget based upon the equipment needed. I have no clue what I need though. My experience is in hip hop, but I want to be able to record live instruments as well as electronic.



Appearance is very important because I want the kids to feel that they are getting something better than recording at home. That's important because this is an incentive based initiative. They need to want to be in our studio so they will not want to commit crime. Over time though, I want to teach them how to do things on their own. Therefore it is important to have some sort of 24-32 channel mixing board, if not just for show, but hopefully it will be functional in the setup as well.



I pretty much need an entire studio, but don't want to have to sell the farm to get it. Though I want to impress the kids, they are still kids, do things néed to be durable and preferably not overly expensive.



Thanks for your help.

Nonprofit studio setup