DNAInfo published this story on June 2, 2017: WEST RIDGE — For the last few years, a rare after-school program at Clinton Elementary School in West Ridge has become so popular most students have been put on a waitlist. The small club centers around a...
We recently awarded the Civic Music Association of Milwaukee (CMA) an $8,000 grant in support of scholarships that will help young instrumentalists and vocalists refine their skills and practice their craft through private lessons, auditions, workshops, competition and performance. Last year, the...
Artistas Y Músicos Latino Americanos (AMLA) is a non-profit arts and artist’s organization founded in 2006 in North Philadelphia. A subsidiary of corporation of Esperanza, Inc., the mission of AMLA is to promote the development, dissemination and understanding of Latin...
The Gazette-Democrat ran this story on April 10, 2017: The Dongola School band was recently selected as a recipient of a grant from the Mockingbird Foundation for $10,000 to be used towards the purchase of new instruments. The Mockingbird...
The Mockingbird Foundation, an all-volunteer nonprofit founded and run entirely by Phish fans, has announced twelve new grants totaling $81,000 in support of music education for children. The grants come from Mockingbird’s 21st round of competitive grant-making, include support...
After receiving a surprise city/tour grant from the Mockingbird Foundtion in October, students in the Creek View Elementary music program sent scores of wonderful, creative, inspiring thank you notes. We don’t have room to post them all here, but wanted...
A group of Phish fans has sent $1,500 to Herbert Hoover High School in South Clendenin, WV. Devastating flooding in June destroyed the first floor of the school, including the Music Department, which was under seven feet of water....
In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, the Mockingbird Foundation has sent unsolicited contributions of $1,000 each to three important tribal groups: Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook Abenaki People, in New Hampshire Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, in...
The Mockingbird Foundation has announced unsolicited donations of $2000 being sent to a music education program in each of the six cities in which Phish will perform this fall. The $12,000 in new grants, including the Foundation’s first grant in...
A group of Phish fans has sent $1,000 contributions to three music programs affected by recent flooding in southern Louisiana – at Denham Springs High School (in Denham Springs), St. Amant High School (in Baton Rouge), and the East Baton Rouge Parish School System. Each...