The Mockingbird Foundation is an independent not-for-profit corporation that is otherwise not connected officially with Phish, Inc. or funded by Phish other than the LivePhish.com downloads mentioned above. Phish has its own charitable organization, Waterwheel, and we likewise have no official connection with them. The Mockingbird Foundation and this website have always been an unofficial organization run and managed entirely by Phish fans for the benefit of charity and "giving back" what Phish has given to us.

So why should I care so much about this group if they're not Phish? Forgive me for being honest, but I go to Phish shows to listen to the music Phish plays. I don't go to save the trees, save the whales, save the children, or save my soul. I go for Phish. Any person or group who attempts to insert themselves into that activity in a distracting manner is going to draw my ire. These people are making money from selling glowsticks and they want to exploit a Phish concert to increase their sales. If the Mockingbird Foundation was selling the glowsticks directly to the phans will ALL profits going to their work then I wouldn't have much of an argument here. If someone paid to advertise on phish.net to sell glowsticks for any occasion I wouldn't have much of an argument, but manufacturing a predetermined glowstick orgy that interferes with a Phish concert for the purpose of making more money is what is upsetting. And it isn't interfering, for me, because of the glowsticks themselves but because of the intentions. This prearranged, commercialized "glowstick war" is not an honest creation of phans. I'm sure Phish will be really impressed with how many sticks you sell.