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With a large clinical staff, Backline provides mental health and wellness resources for music industry professionals and their families.
CMAF focuses on improving and sustaining music education programs everywhere while supporting worthwhile causes important to the Country Music Association.
ETM is the largest non-profit provider of direct and comprehensive music education as a core subject in New York City schools, including music instruments and teacher training.
The Museum’s Campaign for Education aims to eliminate the financial burden to access music education and foster the next generation of music’s creators and leaders.
GNG provides guitars and lessons to foster children and at-risk youth in a classroom setting with qualified teachers as an alternative to violence.
HFM is a charitable nonprofit supporting music education and cultural enrichment, and acquires and provides musical instruments to underprivileged children around the world.
“Saving jazz, blues and roots one musician at a time,” JFoA is a nonprofit that helps musicians in need through emergency funds, housing assistance, medical care, disaster relief, education and performance opportunities.
M&F provides high-quality sequential music education to students in grades pre-K-12 in more than 70 New York City schools who have little or no access to the arts.
The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation keeps music alive in our schools by providing vital support services to school districts, and musical instruments to underfunded music programs nationwide, giving under-represented youth access to the many benefits of music education, leading them to success in school, and inspiring creativity and expression through playing music.
Operated by The Recording Academy, MusiCares provides a safety net of critical health and welfare services to the music community in three key areas: Mental Health & Addiction Recovery Services, Health Services and Human Services.
Music for Youth (Connecticut)
Music for Youth (U.K.)
MFY is a U.K.-based charity providing free access to educational and performance opportunities for musicians aged 25 and under via large youth music festivals and concerts throughout the country including at Royal Albert Hall.
MHA provides access to healthcare by removing barriers, finding solutions and restoring health and hope for music industry professionals nationwide.
Music Will equips educators to teach, students to learn, and lives to be transformed through music education by teaching students to play, perform, improvise and compose using popular music students select.
National Association for Music Education
NAfME supports nearly 58,000 current, retired, and future music educators with the resources they need to succeed in the challenging and changing landscape of music education.
NFF supports musicians and music education across the country in order to continue the legacies of the Newport Jazz and Newport Folk Festivals.
TRoM provides music history and theory as well as instrumental instruction and ensemble performance preparation for kids ages 9-14 from low-income households, including academic tutoring, hot meals and roundtrip transportation.
STMF helps students, schools and communities, donating instruments and music technology, providing support services for teachers and advocating for music education.
Todd Rundgren’s nonprofit organization raises awareness and supports the benefits of instrument-based music education and music performance for youth, working directly with established music programs.
W.O. Smith Music School, Nashville
The W.O. Smith Music School makes affordable, quality music instruction available to children ages 8-18 from low-income Nashville families, providing students with an instrument of their choosing, a volunteer teaching artist, study materials and classes and lessons for 50 cents.
YM is a national charity supporting those 25 and under with investment and influence in grassroots organizations and directly with young people interested in making, learning and earning in music.