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Mission
To provide long term musical training to promising children in financial need across the country by linking them with qualified music teachers willing to teach at a reduced rate.
Key Facts
Geographic areas served:
Nation-wide
Target demographics:
Low-income children nationwide from early childhood through age 18.
Results to date:
We have reached 3,000 disadvantaged children nationwide with active students in over 40 states. Our dedicated and caring teachers have logged over 200,000 hours of instruction time which equates to over $4 milllion in in-kind donation.
Direct beneficiaries per year: There are approximately 1,000 students actively involved in lessons at any one time throughout the year.
Indirect beneficiaries per year: Parents, teachers, families
Obstacles:
We are in need of more funding from corporate and individual donors for staffing of coordinators to link teachers and qualifying students.
We are need of marketing to get our name before the public
We are in need of volunteers to help coordinators link students
What your donation will allow us to do:
Purchase music & materials, move, tune and/or repair instruments, provide music camp scholarships, pay travel stipends for teachers, and reimburse teachers for out-of-pocket expenses incurred on behalf of their MusicLink students.
Your donation of $50 enables us to:
provide music and materials to a student for a year
Your donation of $250 enables us to:
send a student to Summer Music Camp.
Your donation of $300
provide a start-up grant for a new MusicLink program.
Board Members and Affiliation:
Martha Smith, MTNA Certified Independent Music Teacher
William Haroutounian, National Symphony Orchestra
Charles Kinney, Attorney--Winston & Strawn Wash D.C.
Grace Jean, Music Critic for the Wahington Post
Julie Romeo, President, Romeo Music
Virginia Guttierez, Director Community Relations, Miami Convention Bureau
Nancy Carter, Visual Artist
Sue Wege, Independent Music Teacher
ADVISORY BOARD
Scott McBride Smith, Director of the Intn’l Institute for Young Musicians, Director of the Royal American Conservatory Examinations
Doug Schmitt, VP of Schmitt Music Co.
Carolyn Callahan, Dir. of the Nat’l Research Center on the Gifted & Talented
Verdine White, Guitarist with Earth,Wind & Fire Founder & Director of the Verdine White Foundation & Wright Center
Andre Watts, Internationally known concert pianist
Marvin Hamlisch, composer & conductor
Past and Current Funders:
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
Weissberg Foundation
Travelers Company
Sprenger Lang Foundation
Harmon Family Foundation
Dimick Foundation
Alfred Publishing
Key Staff
Dr. Joanne Haroutounian, Executive Director and Founder of the MusicLink Foundation--specialist in music talent development.