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Funding

State Arts Agencies/Regional Arts Organizations
Funding for individuals and organizations.

Foundation Center
The leading web site on philanthropy serving grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public.

Nonprofit Finance Fund
Loans for facilities projects and for other growth-related needs and planning assistance.

NYFA Source
The largest national database of information on grants, awards, services, and publications for artists in all disciplines.

VHI Save the Music Foundation
A nonprofit initiative with two primary missions: to restore music education programs that had been cut due to budget reductions in the past or to save programs at risk of elimination due to lack of instruments. The foundation also conducts awareness campaigns, musical instrument drives and fundraising events.

Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation
15125 Ventura Blvd., Suite 204
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
818/784-6787
818/784-6788 (fax)
Provides musical instruments to elementary, secondary, and community music programs across the country.

Service Organizations

American Choral Directors' Association
545 Couch Drive
Oklahoma City OK 73102
405.232.8161
405.232.8162 (fax)
www.acdaonline.org

American Composers Alliance
648 Broadway, Room 803
New York, NY 10012
212.362.8900
212.925.0458
212.925.6798 (fax)
www.composers.com

American Composers Forum
332 Minnesota Street, Suite 145
St. Paul, MN 55101-1300
651.228.1407
651.291.7978 (fax)
www.composersforum.org

American Guild of Organists
475 Riverside Drive, Suite 1260
New York, NY  10115-0055
212.870.2310
212.870.2163 (fax)
www.agohq.org

American Music Center, Inc.
30 West 26th Street, Suite 1001
New York, NY 10010-2011
212.366.5260
212.366.5625 (fax)
www.amc.net

American Symphony Orchestra League
New York Headquarters
33 West 60th Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10023-7905
212.262.5161
212.262.5198 (fax)
Washington Office
910 17th Street N.W., Suite 800
Washington, DC 20006
202.776.0215
202.776.0224 (fax)
www.symphony.org

Association of California Symphony Orchestras
2755 Cottage Way, Suite 3
Sacramento, CA 95825
916.484.6744
916.484.0503 (fax)
www.acso.org

Association of Performing Arts Presenters
1112 16th Street, NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036
202.833.2787
202.833.1543 (fax)
www.artspresenters.org

Chamber Music America
305 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10001
212.242.2022
212.242.7955 (fax)
www.chamber-music.org

Chorus America
1156 15th Street, NW, Suite 310
Washington, DC 20005
202.331.7577
202.331.7599 (fax)
www.chorusamerica.org

Conductors Guild, Inc.
North Lakeside Cultural Center
6219 N. Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60660
773.764.7563
773.764.7564 (fax)
www.conductorsguild.org

Country Music Foundation
22 Fifth Avenue South
Nashville, Tennessee 37203
615.416.2001
www.countrymusichalloffame.com/

Early Music America
2366 Eastlake Avenue E. #429
Seattle, WA 98102, USA
206.720.6270 or 888.SACKBUT
206.720.6290 (fax)
www.earlymusic.org/

International Association of Jazz Educators
P.O. Box 724
Manhattan, KS 65505-0724
785.776.8744
785.776.6190 (fax)
www.iaje.org

International Society for the Performing Arts Foundation
17 Purdy Avenue
P.O. Box 909
Rye, NY
914.921.1550
914.921.1593 (fax)
www.ispa.org

Meet the Composer, Inc.
75 Ninth Avenue
floor 3R, suite C
New York, NY 10011
212.645.6949
212.645.9669 (fax)
www.meetthecomposer.org

Music Critics Association of North America
7 Pine Court
Westfield, NJ 07090
908.BEETHOV
www.mcana.org/

Music Educators National Conference
1806 Robert Fulton Drive
Reston, VA 20191
800.336.3768 (toll-free, general inquiries)
800.828.0229 (toll-free, member services)
703.860.4000 (local and international)
703.860.1531 (local fax)
www.menc.org

National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences
3402 Pico Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90405
310.392.3777
310.392.2778 (fax)
grammy.org

National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc.
1151 S. Laflin Street
Chicago, IL 60643
773.568.3818
773.779.1325 (fax)
www.nanm.org

National Association of Schools of Music
11250 Roger Bacon Drive, Suite 21
Reston, VA 20190
703.437.0700
703.437.6312 (fax)
nasm.arts-accredit.org

National Music Council
Dr. David Sanders, Director
425 Park Street
Montclair, NJ 07043
www.musiccouncil.org

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
5225 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Suite 605
Washington, DC 20015
202.364.7272
202.364.0176 (fax)
www.monkinstitute.com

World Music Institute
49 West 27th Street, Suite 930
New York, NY 10001
212/545-7536
212/889-2771 (fax)
www.HearTheWorld.org

Online Resources

Music Education Search System
The system currently contains two databases: the music journal database of 12,000+ entries and the Poland-Cady Abstract Collection of 4,500+ entries on pre-1966 references important to music teaching and learning. The music journal database contains the bibliographic information for the articles contained in: Choral Journal, Council for Research in Music Education Bulletin, Dialogue in Instrumental Music Education, Instrumentalist, Jazz Educators Journal, Journal of Music Teacher Education, Journal of Research in Music Education, Music Educators Journal, Philosophy of Music Education Review, Psychomusicology, Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning, Southeastern Journal of Music Education, and Update: Applications of Research in Music Education.

Musical America
Musical America, a subscription site, provides listings of artists and managers, press releases, and industry news articles updated daily.

NewMusicJukebox
Online library and listening room that provides immediate access to scores, streaming audio, and vital information about music by American composers.

NewMusicBox
A web magazine from the American Music Center focusing on American new music. Includes feature articles, new music selections, news, and a nationwide performance calendar.

new music now
new music now is designed both for music professionals and for music lovers who have an interest in learning about and programming new music. The site identifies seminal works written in the last thirty years, and includes an analysis of the piece, composer biographies and interviews, discussions with conductors and presenters about performing the work, and sound files. Several new works and composers are added each month. The site also touches on keys to performing new works and links to other new music resources on the web.


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