$20k In Summer Tour Grants
In celebration of Phish’s current summer tour (June 20 to July 27), the all-volunteer and fan-run Mockingbird Foundation has announced that it is sending unsolicited $2,000 Tour Grants to a music program in each of the ten cities in which the band is performing, for a total of $20,000. This group of grants includes Mockingbird's 236th Tour Grant and 350th non-competitive grant! It is the 32nd group of Tour Grants, an effort that now totals $320,999.99 (~$321K), which is 11.5% of all disbursements made by the Foundation.
The ten grantees for this tour are Manchester High School, Carrick High School (in Pittsburgh), Ann Richards School Foundation (in Austin), Boulder MUSE, We Amplify Voices (in Columbus), Northwoods Middle School (in North Charleston), Lewis C. Cassidy Academic Plus School (in Philadelphia), Prosser Career Academy (in Chicago), Garden Players (in Forest Hills), and the Skidmore Jazz Institute. Complete details are on the Mockingbird site.
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$321K distributed through these Tour Grants shows the real impact that passionate fans can have when they come together for a cause. These unsolicited grants must be such wonderful surprises for the schools and organizations receiving them, giving them resources to nurture the next generation of musicians!
Here's to many more tour grants & the continued growth of music education! 🎵
Music education - important today, because someone's gonna have to get me onto my feet in 2042.
:-)