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Make-A-Wish. The Make-A-Wish Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization founded in the United States that helps fulfill the wishes of seriously ill children. [ 2] Make-A-Wish was founded in 1980 [ 3] and is headquartered in Phoenix. [ 2] The organization operates through its 59 chapters located throughout the United States.
Benefit concert. A benefit concert or charity concert is a type of musical benefit performance (e.g., concert, show, or gala) featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis . Benefit concerts can have both subjective and concrete objectives.
Music Will, formerly known as Little Kids Rock (LKR), is a nonprofit charity based in Montclair, New Jersey, that encourages and enables children to play popular music. It provides free music instruction and instruments to public school districts across the country, from kindergarten through high school. Their modern band curriculum is rooted ...
CreatiVets. CreatiVets is a United States non-profit organization that teaches United States Armed Forces veterans to use visual arts and music as a means of addressing their unseen wounds of war. CreatiVets was co-founded by Richard Casper and Linda Tarrson in July 2013 in Chicago, Illinois, to help combat the staggering number of suicides by ...
www.hungryformusic.org. Hungry for Music is a charitable nonprofit organization located in Washington, D.C., that works to support music education and cultural enrichment, [1] and acquires and provides musical instruments to underprivileged children [2] [3] around the world. [4] Hungry for Music was founded and is directed by Jeff Campbell, [5 ...
Making Music (formerly the National Federation of Music Societies) is a UK membership organisation for leisure-time music groups of all musical genres, representing over 200,000 musicians and promoters of all levels and experience. [1] Making Music provides them with practical services, guidance, artistic development opportunities and a ...
MusiCares Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 1989 and incorporated in 1993 by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.Meant for musicians to have a place to turn in times of financial, personal, or medical crisis, its primary purpose is to focus the resources and attention of the music industry on human service issues which directly impact the health and welfare ...
In 2007, more than 91 percent ($2.5 million) of MHOF's revenue was used to fund music program expenses. Management and fundraising expenditures totaled 2 percent each. Charity Navigator rates the Foundation four stars. In twenty-four years the Foundation has donated more than 33,000 instruments to over 2 million students.