The D’Addario Foundation is a unique non-profit grant-making organization providing monetary and product support to high-quality sustainable music instruction programs on the frontline to improve access to music education. We support programs that bring music back into communities and schools and get kids playing as early and as frequently as possible. The D'Addario Foundation believes in the transformative power of music and that mentoring and building communities through music can positively affect social change.
Congratulations to D’Addario Foundation grantee, Musicambia, on their spotlight on NY1!
Musicambia uses the power of music to build supportive communities where incarcerated individuals can build human connections, engage in learning and rebuild their lives. Learn more on their website at musicambia.org.
The D’Addario Foundation has provided in-kind product donations to Instruments for Africa since 2015. The organization collects musical instruments of all kinds, stands, accessories, sheet music, and instructional material, then evaluates and services the donations before distributing them to students and schools in need across Africa.
“I’d like to take a moment to personally thank everyone at The D’Addario Foundation for the several generous product donations you have donated to our project. We recently returned from our first trip to Ghana where we distributed over 250 instruments and another 300 recorders among thirteen schools and the Ghanaian National Orchestra, and I can’t tell you how pleased I was to add vast amounts of reeds and strings to these donations. A few years ago I visited a school in Zambia that was in possession of just two reeds for their pair of clarinets that the students had been sharing for more than ten years; so you see how desperate it can get. I left them with two boxes of your donated Rico reeds, which got a heck of a joyous response!” – Todd Snelgrove, Founder
Click here to learn more about their recent trip to deliver instruments to Ghana.
On July 29th, in partnership with Hungry for Music we held our fourth instrument drive to date – this time on the West Coast! Big thanks to the Ace Hotel DTLA for hosting our event, to the students in LA grantees Young Musicians Foundation and Neighborhood Music School for performing, and of course to all of the generous instrument donors.
Instruments received are currently being evaluated, repaired, and will ultimately be distributed to programs and students in need.
