Deadline: 1/15/22 for LOI; 4/15/22 for Grant Application
Amount: Up to $10,000
Website: https://mbird.org/grants/apply/
Description:
The Mockingbird Foundation is offering competitive grants to nonprofit organizations and schools for programs that provide music education to children and youth. Applicants must submit a letter of inquiry prior to applying. Particular interest is given to programs serving disenfranchised groups, including those with disabilities or terminal illnesses; low-skilled, low-skilled, low-income, and low-education populations; and those in foster homes, shelters, hospitals, prisons, or other remote or isolated situations.
Its programmatic focus is music education for children, defined as follows:
Music: The Mockingbird Foundation recognizes broad and basic needs within conventional instruction, though is particularly interested in projects that foster creative expression (whether in instrumentation, vocalization, composition, or improvisation) and encourage applications associated with diverse or unusual musical styles, genres, forms, and philosophies.
Education: Education may include the provision of instruments, texts, office materials, or equipment; the support of learning, practice, and performance spaces; and the provision of instructors or instruction. The Mockingbird Foundation appreciates the fostering of self-esteem and free expression but has never funded music therapy separate from education nor music appreciation which does not include participation.
Children: The Mockingbird Foundation primarily funds programs serving children eighteen years of age or younger, but will consider projects which benefit college students, teachers, instructors, or adult students.
Eligible applicants:
Grants are made only to nonprofit organizations with tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service code, or which have a sponsoring agency with this status, or which are government entities, such as a public elementary school. (Public schools are tax-exempt and thus eligible for funding, although school-based grantees cannot be independent of the school, must take place at the school, and must be supervised by the applicable municipality.) Organizations selected to submit a full proposal will be required to submit documentation of their status as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt institution, a sponsored institution, or a public school.
PROGRAM CONTACT
Ellis Godard, Executive Director