PHISH TO DONATE NET PROCEEDS OF ONLINE MUSIC SERVICE TO CHARITY
New York, NY — Exactly one year after launching LIVEPHISH.COM, PHISH’S groundbreaking digital download service, the Vermont band has announced that as of January 1, 2004, it will donate their net proceeds from the service to The Mockingbird Foundation, a non-profit organization founded and run by Phish fans that supports music education for children.
In its first year of operation, LIVEPHISH.COM has generated over $2 million in sales. The service offers high-quality, unedited soundboard recordings of select Phish concerts in MP3 and CD-quality FLAC files via a state-of-the-art delivery system. All shows are available to fans within 48 hours after the end of each show.
Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio said of the announcement: “Playing live music has always been a source of indescribable joy for me, and everyday I count my blessings that I’m able to make my living doing something that I so deeply love. It’s exciting then to think that a person can come to a Phish concert, and know that all the profits from the subsequent downloads of our music will go directly into children’s music programs. The fact that The Mockingbird Foundation was created by Phish fans makes it all the more inspirational to us.”
The Mockingbird Foundation, a 501(c)3 organization run entirely by a volunteer staff and with almost no overhead, has made nearly $200,000 in grants since its inception in 1997. Grants to date have come from proceeds from various projects, including The Phish Companion, a comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to Phish and their music, and “Sharin’ In The Groove,” a two-disc album of Phish covers by notable artists such as Dave Matthews and Jimmy Buffett, among others, available at record stores nationwide. A second edition of the book will be released in the spring.
Recipients of these grants have included schools, community centers, workshops, camps, and scholarship programs from Maine to California, from Appalachia to the Southwest, and from Kentucky to Kosovo. Their funding guidelines define music education for children broadly and somewhat unconventionally, and have enabled the Foundation’s efforts to go beyond schools to hospitals, shelters and foster homes.
Proceeds from LivePhish.com’s revenues are expected to dramatically increase the number of organizations that the Mockingbird Foundation is able to fund. The proceeds add an additional feedback loop into the relationship between PHISH and their fans: Revenue raised through fan purchases of LivePhish downloads is channeled to the volunteer, fan-run non-profit that funds music education for children.
The launch of this initiative coincides with PHISH’s year-end sold-out run at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida, where the band will be performing from December 28-31.
For information on The Mockingbird Foundation, including donation guidelines and lists of past grant recipients, please visit http://mockingbirdfoundation.org.
The Mockingbird Foundation acknowledges, and expresses appreciation for, the many individuals and corporations who have provided generous tax-deductible donations to support our efforts in funding music education through all-volunteer nonprofit projects. Contributions are recognized at listed giving levels.
The following made contributions during 2003:
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Supporters (up to $50)
- Barbara Ney Leimback
- Ben Upton
- Benjamin Murrill
- Benjamin Scott
- Benjamin Whitlock
- Cheryl Eichen
- Christopher Sahl
- Cindy Dossett
- Daniel Bourque
- Elizabeth Halloran
- Ellis Godard
- Eloise Mills
- Emil Hayda
- Eric Lyman
- Gregory Ewan
- Hal Waterman
- Jack R. Lebowitz
- James Moran
- Jedediah Bopp
- Jeff Hartzell
- Jerry Kilmartin
- Jonathan Coblentz
- Josephine W. Aguilar
- Kaleidoscopic Cornucopia
- Karen Mitchell
- Kate Ottersten
- Kenneth Haltman
- Laura Bolen
- Mark Walsh
- Mark Walsh
- Matthew Orchard
- Michael Dulle
- Mike Montalbano
- Nicolas Doak
- Seth Acton
- Susie Ochs
- Susie Ochs
- theRhombus.com
- Tony Irby
- William Massey
- william neill
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Sponsors (up to $100)
- Carla A. Rosen
- Gregory Taylor
- John Bergquist
- Justin Liew
- Stacey Moore
- Susan Lindsey
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Advocates (up to $250)
- (Ashley Cissell group)
- NKBA, NW States Chapter
- The Showplace
- Vicki A. Leimback
- Vicki Leimback
- Zona Piper
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Patrons (up to $5000)
- Debbi Smith
- Deirdre Mercer
- DW Reynolds Foundation
The Mockingbird Foundation acknowledges, and expresses appreciation for, the many individuals and corporations who have provided generous tax-deductible donations to support our efforts in funding music education through all-volunteer nonprofit projects. Contributions are recognized at listed giving levels.
The following made contributions during 2002:
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Supporters (up to $50)
- 123StuffForFree.com Network (Curt Kluth)
- Christopher M Francis
- Denise Okimoto
- Eric Gray
- Fran, Michael, and Courtney Brennan
- Frances Gluck
- Kim Butterfield, Michael Olson, and Isaac and Jessie Olson
- Linda M. Graham
- Mark Larkin
- Nancy Weber Truex
- Paige Clem
- Paul Buttacavoli
- Ryan Miller
- Suzanne Fay, c/o Oh! Suzannah
- The Goulette Family
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Sponsors (up to $100)
- Betty A. Catanzaro
- Bo Elder & Norcal group (Techsplanations)
- Boston University KKP
- Cheryl Eichen
- Dan Purcell and Heather Hanly
- Daniel Hegeman
- Donna and Joseph Heaney
- Joan P. Tower
- Joan S. Briggs
- Mary E. McMoyler
- Ten Ton Chicken
- Vicki Pennington
- William B. Bizzell III
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Advocates (up to $250)
- Boston Consulting Group
- Charlie Dirksen
- Cheryl Eichen
- Gary and Harriet Mace
- Kristina Pollak
- Marilyn Green & G. Larry Jones
- Moorpark Presbyterian Church
- Reverend Will Burhans
- Ten Ton Chicken
- William Abbot
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Donors (up to $1000)
- John Federico
- John Randolph Tucker High School
- Michael Shoafstall
- White Rabbit Coffeehouse
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Patrons (up to $5000)
- Andrew Goldlatt (for the Rhombus)
- The Great American Music Hall
The Mockingbird Foundation acknowledges, and expresses appreciation for, the many individuals and corporations who have provided generous tax-deductible donations to support our efforts in funding music education through all-volunteer nonprofit projects. Contributions are recognized at listed giving levels.
The following made contributions during 2001:
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Supporters (up to $50)
- Arline and Rowland Peterson
- Charlie Dirksen
- Daniel Donohue
- Elizabeth Rees
- Franziska L. Brennan
- Gordon and Karen Amidon
- Janet C. Tilley
- John and Tricia Waldron
- Kathleen Leahy
- Robert A. Denison
- Sheila M. Chappell
- Stephen M.J.Carey
- Suzanne Fay (Oh! Suzannah)
- Zachary J. Nola
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Sponsors (up to $100)
- Allen, Marti, Jonathan, and Sarah Webster
- Bryan Shipman
- Elizabeth Rosa
- James and Jill Coffrin
- James B Stillman Jr
- Nancy Morse
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Advocates (up to $250)
- Ellis Godard
- James and Lynn Stillman
- Jean K. Bernstein
- Katherine and Edward Van Woert
- Kenneth Haltman
- Stevenson and Lynda Waltien
- Vermont Oxford Network, Inc.
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Donors (up to $1000)
- Trevor Norris
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Patrons (up to $5000)
- Great American Music Hall
- Kristen Briggs
The Mockingbird Foundation acknowledges, and expresses appreciation for, the many individuals and corporations who have provided generous tax-deductible donations to support our efforts in funding music education through all-volunteer nonprofit projects. Contributions are recognized at listed giving levels.
The following made contributions during 2000:
- Donors (under $50)
- Supporters ($50 to $99)
- Advocates ($100 to $250)
- Sponsors ($250 to $999)
- Patrons ($1000 to $4,999)
- Grantors (at or above our maximum grant size of $5,000)
MOCKINGBIRD FOUNDATION TOPS $500,000, ANNOUNCES 14 SPECIAL GRANTS
[Saratoga Springs, NY] – The Mockingbird Foundation today announced that its fundraising has surpassed the half-million-dollar mark. Coinciding with that milestone, the Foundation announced fourteen new grants, totaling $63,420, to support diverse programs in music education across the U.S. The recipients of these grants are:
A Place Called Home (Los Angeles, CA)- Academy of Charter Schools (Denver, CO)
- ACCHORD Music Mentorship Program (Eugene, OR)
- Arthur Ashe School (New Orleans, LA)
- Burlington School District (Burlington, VT)
- Center for Traditional Music and Dance (New York, New York)
- Central Washington University Foundation (Ellenbsurg, WA)
- Govans Economic Management Senate (Baltimore, MD)
- Louisville Deaf Oral School (Louisville, KY)
- Memorial Middle School (Albany, OR)
- Rock School (Kirkland, WA)
- Rosie’s House (Phoenix, AZ)
- Songcatchers (New Rochelle, NY)
- Youth Rap 2001 (Belchertown, WA)
These grants are in addition to the Foundation’s regular schedule, of two grant cycles per year. These recipients were not funded in earlier cycles due to limited resources. They are funded now due to a generous donation from Phish, who contribute their net proceeds from LivePhish.com to the Mockingbird Foundation. Due to the size of the most recent proceeds donation, the Foundation board elected to fund these programs immediately, rather than wait for the next round of grants, which will be announced in early 2005.
The Mockingbird Foundation is the leading provider of historical information about the band Phish and its music. The Foundation has been operated entirely by volunteer fans of the band, without any salaries or paid staff, since its inception in 1996. It fundraises for music education for children by celebrating the music of Phish through comprehensive books, innovative recordings, creative donation premiums,
and special events for the Phish fan community. The second edition of The Phish Companion – the Foundation’s 900-page authoritative encyclopedia – is available from major book outlets as well
as through www.mbird.org. Phish was a rock band that started in 1983 and performed its final show in August 2004. LivePhish.com continues to be one of the most successful single-band music download services online.
