Funding for Children’s Music Education

Posted by on January 24, 2003

[RFP Bulletin]

Mockingbird Foundation Offers Funding for Children’s Music Education Programs
Deadline: February 1 and August 1, 2003

The Mockingbird Foundation, Inc. (http://www.mockingbirdfoundation.org/), a nonprofit organization that generates charitable proceeds from fans of the band Phish, offers competitive grants to schools and nonprofit organizations with a programmatic focus on music education for children.

While MFI seeks to fund projects that encourage and foster creative expression in any musical form (including composition, instrumentation, vocalization, or improvisation), it also recognizes broader and more basic needs within conventional instruction. MFI encourages applications associated with diverse or unusual musical styles, genres, forms, and philosophies. For the purposes of this grant program, “education” may include the provision of instruments, texts, and office materials, and the support of learning space, practice space, performance space, and instructors/instruction.

MFI is interested in targeting children and youth eighteen years of age or younger, but will consider projects that benefit college students, teachers, instructors, or adult students. The organization is particularly interested in programs that benefit disenfranchised groups, including those with low skill levels, income, or education; with disabilities or terminal illnesses; and in foster homes, shelters, hospitals, prisons, or other remote or isolated situations.

Grants of up to $5,000 are made on a one-time basis are made within the United State to nonprofit organizations with tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the IRS code, or to organizations that have a sponsoring agency with 501(c)(3) status. Public schools are also eligible for funding.

For complete funding guidelines, see the Mockingbird Foundation Web site.
RFP Link: http://www.mockingbirdfoundation.org/funding/

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