A word from our sponsor:

As noted in The Lawn Boys blog post today, it's very likely that The Mockingbird Foundation will also be donating money collected at that show and online now to the Sandy relief efforts (a little later than the immediate needs for warm clothes and food the Red Cross is seeking donations for).

As in the recent disasters from floods and tornadoes in the past several years, we will be granting "emergency" grants to public schools and music education charities to replace musical instruments lost in natural disasters.

One of the benefits to donating to Mockingbird, as opposed to the huge national charities, is that loss of kid's musical instruments is very much on our radar screen as our main mission and that the size of the grant requests we can fund is much smaller than the large charities can deal with. However, it usually takes several months for schools and programs to assess disaster losses and for us to get in touch with institutions in the affected areas to assess their needs for replacement instruments.