At RPM, we know that TIME continues to be one of the biggest obstacles to incorporating activism and philanthropy into your work. And while we can’t add more hours to your day—we can help maximize the time you do have.

Here are a few of RPM’s top tips and tricks for saving time and having a bigger impact. Some tips are specific to activism and philanthropy, and others are intended to make your day-to-day job easier so you have more time for all of the other work.

Be in touch if you have additional tips to add or if you want to talk to one of RPM’s staff members for as-needed strategic advice. We are here to help.

THE 2 EASIEST WAYS ANY ARTIST CAN HAVE A BIG IMPACT IN LESS THAN 5  MINUTES:

• Make Every Show a Benefit: By adding a micro-donation to every ticket sold on your tours, you can raise loads of money for the causes you care about. We can implement this for you! If every ticket sold to concerts in North America had a $1 add-on attached to it, we could raise $40 million every year.
• Encourage Fans to Go Green: Add a sentence about public transit and carpooling to all of your tour announcement pages. See here for sample language. If just 10% of the concert goers who normally drive didn’t because they took public transit or carpooled, we would save 35 million pounds of carbon from entering the atmosphere per year. (It would take 800,000 trees being planted every year to scrub that much carbon.)

Download our handbook for more on these and other ideas.

SAVE TIME

• Create a Charity Request Form: Customize these questions (and add canned email responses) to cut down on the amount of time you spend responding to requests from charities. The form also makes your decision-making more strategic! Here’s how to use to use it.
• Use your calendar to block out “to dos” in order to get your things done. This means that you actually schedule the task like a meeting onto your calendar. It ensures there is enough time in the day to do what you think you need to do. Plus it reserves time. More info on this can be found here.
• Work smarter not just harder: 21 time management tips to hack productivity.
• Make an anxiety list: Write down the 3-5 things—and no more—that are making you anxious or causing stress. Ask yourself if your day would be dramatically better if you got it done. Then spend 2 hours doing it. More here.

TRAVEL

• Get travel insurance. About $300/year but covers most things weather related, lost baggage, medical, etc. As travel becomes more challenging, this is a must have. (Especially because most plans cover any health care needs outside of a 100 mile radius from your home.)
• Organize your travel itineraries. Trip-it costs $49/year for individuals. Group plans exists as well. You can email any itinerary and it gets automatically organized, calendared (syncs with google), and also invites others to view your travels. It is well-organized, often notifies you via text before the airline when delays and cancellations are happening (and shows you other available travel options), etc.
• Save money with new cell phone plans for international travel—free texting, unlimited data, etc.

FINANCIAL

• Are you registered with SoundExchange?–The agency that collects digital royalties. Each year we comb the database of artists who have not collected their earnings and every year we find several dozen artists that we work with, who have not registered with them, and have money waiting for them. In one case, we found an artist who had tens of thousand dollars in royalties!! Another one to check is the Film Musicians Secondary Market Fund (FMSMF)—think SoundExchange but for film.
• Local Banks & National Touring: It’s not easy to use smaller banks when you tour. Here is a work-around that we’ve found works for some artists:
  • Find a Credit Union that is part of the Credit Union Network so that you can make cash deposits at ATMs of others in the network when you tour. The downside of this is that you have to carry the cash between locations, and that you can’t easily deposit all of those pennies that people pay for merchandise with.
  • Open a “deposit” account at a bigger bank, but only use it to accept the money and then transfer it to your local, small, homespun bank. You should choose the account that you have to have the lowest possible minimum balance and the lowest possible fees. Then just put the money in and have your business person get the money out asap. This means that the big bad bank doesn’t get to make money from your money.

OTHER FAVORITE RPM TIPS & RESOURCES:

• The Management Center: these folks specialize in helping nonprofits be more productive, but much of their advice could be used by anyone.
• Lifehacker: this website is full of helpful (and sometimes ridiculous) short cuts and life tricks.

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Trump plays Neil Young and R.E.M., and then Kim Davis & Mike Huckabee play Survivor–all without permission from the artists or rights holders. Will politicians ever learn to ask first? Probably not. So here’s what artists can do.

FOR CAMPAIGNS THAT YOU OPPOSE

How much recourse you have over unwanted use of your music can vary widely based on how it’s used and where.

If a campaign or organization that you oppose uses your song at a campaign event—an announcement, a rally, a fundraiser, etc:

Anytime a campaign plays a song at a rally, they must ensure that they have a public performance license covering the song’s use. Most major public venues such as convention centers and arenas typically purchase blanket licenses from performance rights organizations (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC) allowing campaigns to “publicly perform” any song in their repertoire, which includes the vast majority of compositions. These licenses may not cover all uses, so most national campaigns also purchase their own blanket licenses covering all campaign events; so if they have a whistlestop event on the campaign trail at a factory or in a park, they’d still be covered.

• If the campaign does not have such a license, you can contact the campaign, or have the PRO contact the campaign, and demand that they stop using your song.

• Even if the campaign does have a proper license to play your song at the campaign’s events, you may still be able to assert a legal claim that use of your name infringes your right of privacy/publicity; infringes or dilute trademark rights that you or your band may have in the band’s name or your name; or falsely implies that you have endorsed the candidate.  Contact your agent or attorney about making these claims if the PRO says the campaign appears to have a proper license and you still want to shut down the campaign’s use of your song.

If a campaign or organization (SuperPAC, nonprofit, etc.) that you oppose is using your music in a tv or radio commercial or an online video:

• If it’s your song and your recording of it, the campaign would likely need a synch license from your PRO and a master recording license from your label. Check both. If the campaign doesn’t have these licenses, you can have either the PRO or label or both contact the campaign and demand that they cease and desist from using your music.

• If it’s a cover of your song, the campaign still needs a synch license from the PRO—so  if the campaign didn’t have a license, have the PRO contact the campaign and make the same demand.

• If it’s your cover of someone else’s song, the record label can make that demand.

• If it’s your song, and it’s on a campaign or organization’s website, that campaign or organization also needs a performance license from the PRO—so if they don’t have it, the PRO can demand that the campaign or website stop showing the video or playing the recording.

Making a statement in media

Legal representation is expensive, and whether on copyright infringement or other grounds, these sorts of cases rarely make it to court. A less expensive and potentially more effective tactic for musicians is to release a simple statement to news media and/or music press disagreeing with the use of your work. A good example of this was Neil Young’s management’s response to Donald Trump’s use of “Rockin’ In The Free World.”

“Donald Trump was not authorized to use “Rockin’ In The Free World” in his presidential candidacy announcement. Neil Young, a Canadian citizen, is a supporter of Bernie Sanders for President of the United States of America.”

It can be as simple as that to send a clear message. Usually campaigns will cease use of your work to avoid further embarrassment.

FOR CAMPAIGNS THAT YOU SUPPORT

If you get advance notice that a campaign will be using your musical work as part of a campaign, you should make sure that all rightsholders and partners you work with including labels, distributors, and publishers are aware of your support of the candidate and have cleared the work to be used. You don’t want your record label reflexively having your video taken down from YouTube because they don’t know permission was arranged, for example.  Additionally, if the campaign is a smaller/local race where the candidate hasn’t purchased a blanket license, you will want to contact your PRO and let them know that you’ve granted permission and waive your public performance royalties for that use.

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RPM is excited to announce a transition in staff leadership. Jessica George –– who has been running addRPM, our signature artist philanthropy program — has been named Executive Director effective January 1.

Both Erin Potts and Deyden Tethong are segueing from their staff positions. For over ten years, they have worked to establish and serve our fine network of artists and managers. It is with an enduring commitment to the organization’s mission that they will remain deeply involved with RPM. Erin has been named to RPM’s board of directors and Deyden to RPM’s advisory board.

Jess is the next generation of leader that we have been hoping would take RPM into its next decade of work, and we are thrilled to welcome and support her in her new role. Jess is a fierce organizer and passionate advocate. With ten years of experience in fundraising and organizing, she is able to support the development, management and implementation of campaigns with artists and their teams. In her role at RPM, Jess has accelerated our ticket add-on program, working with artists on tour to raise awareness and much-needed funds for important social and environmental justice causes.

Since our launch, RPM has supported artists and their teams to make an impact on the issues that they care about by using innovative philanthropic strategies, artist-focused workshops, DIY tools and resources for artist activism and individual advising. As a result, we have raised over $2 million for important social change work.

From ticket add-ons to social media partnerships, RPM will continue to provide customized charitable campaign advising in support of some of the most effective nonprofits working today.

Contact us if you are an artist or artists’ team and looking for more information about how we can help you engage with the issues you care most deeply about.

Jessica George
jessica@revolutionsperminute.net

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Whether you’re playing clubs, theaters, or stadiums, there are ways that you can make your tour more eco-friendly. Here are some best practices and resources, including a recorded webinar with industry leaders, sample green riders and links to more information. As always, RPM is always ready to help you implement any of these strategies.

The EnviroRider– Designed to help agents and production managers communicate with venues on sustainable action items.

The EnviroTour Guide– A guide for artists and managers who want to implement sustainable production for their shows.

(send a request to jessica@revolutionsperminute.net for an editable version of the EnviroRider or EnviroTour Guide)

photo credit: Danny Clinch

Talking Climate Change & Sustainable Touring Recorded Webinar

Hosted by Deyden Tethong and Jessica George with guest speakers:

Alison Tickell
Founder and CEO of Julie’s Bicycle

Resources:

• Resources section including practical guides for e.g. touring, sustainable audience travel, communicating sustainability, and also (for festivals and venues you might be working with) waste and water management at outdoor events, energy and waste management in buildings and many more. Some of them will be written more from a UK perspective but the core principles are universally relevant.  
• Case studies
• Julie’s Bicycle version of a Green Rider

Contact:

www.juliesbicycle.com
www.facebook.com/juliesbicycle
www.twitter.com/juliesbicycle

alison@juliesbicycle.com, @jb_alison
chiara@juliesbicycle.com, @jbgreenmusic

Kim Johnson & Jessica Scheeter
Kim is Manager of Jack Johnson and the co-founder of Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation and Kōkua Hawaiʻi Foundation.

Jessica Scheeter serves as Non-Profit Coordinator for Jack Johnson’s All At Once Community and is the Executive Director of Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation.

Resources:

• Jack Johnson Greening & Impact Results.
• Best Practices for tour greening from Jack Johnson.
• All At Once Non-Profit Partners.
• Reverb Farm Programs.
• Plastic Pollution Coalition “Tour Plastic Free” guide.

Contact:

Jack Johnson, @Jackjohnson
All At Once, @Allatonce_org
jessica@jackjohnsonmusic.com

Mike Martin & David Lewis
Mike is Founder & CEO of EFFECT Partners, and David serves as the Chief Operating Officer.

Resources:

• GreenNotes: Cutting edge resources for musicians and nonprofits to promote change in four core areas: the environment, food, homelessness, and hunger. @gogreennotes | gogreennotes.com

Contact:

Effect Partners | @effectpartners | effectpartners.com
Michael Martin | mm@effectpartners.com | @mminmm
David Lewis | david@effectpartners.com |  @davidtlewis

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Artists and managers have worked with RPM to raise over $450k in 2015.  From adding a donation to every ticket sold on tour to special merchandise items or dedicating the proceeds from a song release, artists were on the forefront of the most pressing issues today. Together, artists, managers and fans supported issues ranging from racial justice, music education, environmental justice, sexual assault, health care, homelessness, issues affecting women of color, queer and trans people, gun violence prevention, poverty, refugee relief and civic engagement and participation. For more information about how you can incorporate the causes you care about into your next tour, contact Jessica George at jessica@revolutionsperminute.net. 

RPM Artists of 2015 include:

Alice Glass
Bassnectar
Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn
Death Cab For Cutie
Hurray For The Riff Raff
Little Dragon
Ms Mr
My Morning Jacket, The Waterfall Project
Rise Against
Speedy Ortiz
The Decemberists
The Head & The Heart
The War on Drugs
Treasure Island Music Festival
Tune-Yards, The Water Fountain

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In response to North Carolina’s HB2 (aka the “bathroom bill”), Death Cab for Cutie and Chrvches are donating all proceeds from their NC dates to the Freedom Center for Social Justice and Southerners On New Ground (SONG), two organizations rooted in North Carolina working to support LGBTQ folks standing up against HB2.

“We are incredibly distressed by HB2 and all that has been happening in North Carolina, but are also heartened to hear about so many people fighting to create positive change,” stated Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry. “I know that our fans will join us and Death Cab in promoting equality, empathy and understanding between people, and we are proud to be supporting Freedom Center for Social Justice and Southerners On New Ground at this show.”

Since the passage of HB2, musicians have been an important partner to organizations. They are bringing much needed attention through boycotts, donation of essential funds to organizations working on the ground and supporting their fans to be an important part of the resistance.

“We know that all of us have a role to play in creating a world free from fear where attacks like HB2 are no longer feasible,” says Elias Lyles of Southerners On New Ground. “Death Cab for Cutie and Chvrches are acting in solidarity by using their concerts in North Carolina to lift up the voices and work of southern LGBTQ people of color, immigrants, and working class folks.”

For support connecting with organizations working in North Carolina, send an email with the subject “NC: HELP!” to jessica@revolutionsperminute.net

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Started in conjunction with Secretly Group and 30 Songs, 30 Days, Our First 100 Days is a subscription compilation that raises funds and awareness for organizations resisting proposed policies of a Trump administration.

Our First 100 Days offers one previously unreleased song per day throughout Trump’s first 100 days in office. Artists contributing to the compilation include Angel Olsen, Mitski, Whitney, Toro Y Moi, the Range, Tim Heidecker, Will Oldham, the Mountain Goats, Avey Tare, Jens Lekman, Cherry Glazerr, How to Dress Well, and many more. Beneficiary organizations include: All Above All, Cosecha, Hoosier Action, People’s Climate Movement, and Southerners On New Ground.

To learn more about the project and its beneficiaries, head here.

To preview or buy the compilation, go here.

“Not only is [Our First 100 Days] a collection of great music, it is the music community coming together, supporting many important organizations, who will be the first line of defense against the policies of the new administration. We hope that people not only love the music, and discover some new things with this collection, but they see it as an easy way to make a contribution to a cross section of organizations that need the support right now.” — Phil Waldorf, Secretly Group

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Since 2009, My Morning Jacket have worked with RPM to add $1 for nonprofits to the cost of every ticket sold. As a result of these ticket add-on tours, over $500,000 has been donated to 97 organizations across the US & Canada working on issues including: arts and music education, criminal justice, disaster response, environment, economic justice, health care, media justice, women’s rights, and more.

In 2015, MMJ established the Waterfall Project. Dedicated to promoting actions, big and small, for positive change, the project supports organizations working on the frontlines of climate change. In addition to the $1 per ticket, fans hosted fundraisers along the tour route to raise money for the project.

“What’s great about a liaison like [Revolutions Per Minute] is that they know what is needed in each area [so] we can be more effective with our philanthropy.” — Patrick Hallahan (My Morning Jacket)

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During his 2016 tour, Andrew Bird worked to raise awareness and funds for gun violence prevention in partnership with Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund.

With RPM’s help, Andrew Bird implemented a ticket add-on, special merch item, and guest list donations to support the group. Fans were prompted to take action and support the movement to end gun violence throughout the tour via social media.

Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund seeks to improve our understanding of the causes of gun violence and the means to reduce it – by conducting groundbreaking original research, developing evidence-based policies, and communicating this knowledge to the American public. Learn more at www.EverytownResearch.org.

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In late 2016, The Orwells released a song, “They Put A Body In The Bayou,” and announced that they would be supporting Off The Street Club, Chicago’s oldest boys and girls club.

“When we were growing up we spent hours upon countless hours listening to, learning, and writing music together. We were spoiled to have access to instruments and a computer that came with a home recording program. Spoiled to have a community that let us fumble our way through the same three chords on a stage – whether that be in our high school’s gymnasium or our buddy’s living room. Without the benefits of growing up in the community we did we can confidently say that we would not be the band we are today. This is why we’re teaming up with Off The Street Club. An organization aimed to give people that live in one of the more dangerous neighborhoods in the country a fair opportunity to become what they strive to be. Whether it be a studio, a stage, a gym, a field, et cetera, this organization will help give the youth a program where they can show and grow their talents. Something everyone should be spoiled enough to get.”. – The Orwells

Located in West Garfield Park, Off The Street Club supports more than 3,000 kids to participate in afterschool programs, tutoring and mentorship opportunities. They dedicated a portion of the proceeds from both tickets and merch toward Off The Street Club.

Living in Chicago? Find more information about how to get involved with Off The Street at www.offthestreetclub.com.

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In just one week, Hurray for the Riff Raff raised more than $7,000 for Third Wave Fund and Radical Monarchs to support their work to advance political power, well- being, and self determination. More than 450 t-shirts were sold, designed by Ricardo Alessio, featuring a quote by Audre Lorde: “Women are powerful and dangerous.”  

“This quote by Audre Lorde has kept me strong in my most fragile moments. When the outside world told me that I was weak, I remembered that I am strong. When I was told I was powerless, I remembered I am powerful.

Everywhere female identified people are connecting with their inner resource of strength. Most of us went through a long road of suffering, isolation without the community and living mentors we craved. I hope this campaign can contribute much needed funds to these organizations that are supplying the youth with much needed resources and encouragement they need. So as these young people navigate our society and our world they know they are powerful beings. We are birthed by powerful beings.” – Alynda Segarra

The shirt was promoted widely on social media by the band, beneficiary organizations and fans. 

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Pitchfork talks to Hurray for the Riff Raff, tUnE-YaRds, and more about how Revolutions Per Minute has helped them connect with charitable and political causes they care about.

Since 2005 Revolutions Per Minute has helped artists raise important funds and engage their fans around issues they care about. Right now, as we wonder how to sustain the heightened engagement across issues since Trump’s election, the role of artists is clear and essential. Artists in RPM’s base are traveling to people’s hometowns, or otherwise engaging their fans across the country, and connecting with them about topics that are relevant, urgent and solvable. Perhaps there isn’t a better partner.

Here when you need us.

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RPM is proud to partner with Hurray For The Riff Raff on another special merch item. The limited edition “No Human Is Illegal” shirt was designed by the band and is being sold in support of Mijente, a national political home for Latinx and Chicanx organizing in the US. By selling 500 shirts, we will raise the resources to help one community to draft legislation and create a local campaign to pass sanctuary city policy.

“We teamed up with Mijente to create the ‘No Human Is Illegal’ campaign because I believe it is an artist’s duty to remind us of our shared humanity. Mijente is creating an intersectional culture of resistance that is desperately needed. Right now, we must stand together and fight for the rights of immigrant people in this country. We must do it for our neighbors, our grandparents, our children and ourselves. Immigrant people have made this country great, and our future depends on us refusing to be turned against each other.” – Hurray for the Riff Raff

Learn more about the campaign here.

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The Front Bottoms release “Get Numb” as a digital download with a corresponding exclusive t-shirt to support Make the Road New Jersey, powered by RPM.

“It’s hard to be a musician today and ignore everything that is going on. “Get Numb” was born from that frustration. We’re partnering with Make the Road New Jersey to help as much as we can. Make The Road New Jersey are helping make it possible for those who are often left out of the process to have a stronger, more unified voice and be part of the decision making process.By supporting them, we are investing in an organization that is responding to issues related to immigrants and working class communities.” – The Front Bottoms

More about the campaign can be found here.

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Deerhoof made their new album Mountain Moves available ten days prior to its official release via Bandcamp on a pay-what-you-wish basis with proceeds going to The Emergent Fund.

Emergent focuses on organizations addressing immediate threats to a wide range of communities including immigrants, women, Muslim and Arab-American communities, Black people, LGBTQ communities, and all people of color.

Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier says, “You could say we’re giving our Bandcamp proceeds to charity, but we don’t really see The Emergent Fund as a charity. Isn’t charity another way of maintaining hierarchy, instead of undermining it? The Emergent Fund is a pooling of resources among equals for the purpose of mutual aid. Their mission and reputation impressed us enough to entrust them with deciding where need is greatest at any moment, in this time of ever-shifting threats…We believe in it as a long-term model of empowerment of people against those who subjugate them through institutional power, wealth, race, religion, or gender.”

In just ten days the band was able to raise over $9,000 for grassroots organizations in communities that are facing injustice based on racial, ethnic, religious and other forms of discrimination.

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As an extension of her activism and philanthropic work aimed at supporting the self-proclaimed misfits, survivors, and dreamers of the world, MILCK officially launched the #ICantKeepQuiet Fund, powered by Revolutions Per Minute.

In the coming year, #ICantKeepQuiet Fund will support Joyful Heart Foundation, Step Up, and Tuesday Night Project in their work on programs fighting domestic violence, creating mentorship for girls in under-resourced communities and providing opportunities for artistic expression. The Fund is supported by donations from the #ICantKeepQuiet global community, portions of MILCK’s ticket sales, proceeds from special merchandise items, and more.

For more information about the fund, visit icantkeepquiet.org/fund    

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Research confirms our beliefs. Artists are not only important influencers and connectors, but music and comedy activate the part of the brain that governs optimism, gives hope and shifts perspectives.

To learn more about how RPM can help, contact us.

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The Amity Affliction is selling a limited run t-shirt to support Hope For The Day, an organization that achieves proactive suicide prevention through outreach and mental health education.

The shirt is only available for a limited time preorder, ending June 8^th. More about the limited run campaign can be found here.

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Jim James is embarking on a unique, career-spanning solo-acoustic tour, visiting historic theatres and performing arts centers across the United States.

One dollar per ticket purchased will go to My Morning Jacket’s branded fund called The Waterfall Project, whose current beneficiaries are United for A Fair Economy and National Bail Fund Network.

United for a Fair Economy challenges the concentration of wealth and power that corrupts democracy, deepens the racial divide and tears communities apart. They use popular economics education, trainings, and creative communications to support social movements working for a resilient, sustainable, and equitable economy.

The National Bail Fund Network is made up of over forty community bail funds who pool resources to free members of their community from pretrial incarceration. In addition to their day-to-day work of freeing people and upholding the presumption of innocence, community bail funds are part of local and national campaigns to end money bail and pretrial detention. The Waterfall Project will be supporting local community bail funds along the tour route that are part of the National Bail Fund Network.

For more information about the tour, go here.
For more information about The Waterfall Project, go here.
For more information about ticket add-ons, head here.

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Headliners Music Hall is celebrating 20 years as Louisville’s premier independent music venue with an eclectic four-day anniversary concert. The celebration is a thank you to the community for 20 years of overwhelming support as Louisville’s go-to locally-owned and locally-operated music hall.

The venue has partnered with RPM to donate a portion of the proceeds from ticket sales and merch sales to benefit some of Louisville’s most deserving, music-based charities: Amped, Girls Rock and MERF. More about the charities is below.

Girl’s Rock: Girls Rock Louisville empowers girls and gender non-conforming youth from all backgrounds by exploring music creation in a supportive, inclusive environment. We view music as a force for change and community building and as an opportunity to develop self-confidence, self-expression, and involvement in social justice.

AMPED: To put kindness, guidance, and support into practice with the use of music education, music creation, and performance that will help our youth to become caring, career minded, and community focused citizens who will impact their environment in a positive way.

MERF: The giving spirit is what has kept Musician’s Emergency Resource Foundation (MERF) funded since their very first benefit for Marvin Maxwell. At first, it was a collective fund that musicians could pay into and count on in times of need, but has since become a legal non-profit in 2004 with a dedicated board of directors who vet and vote on aid requests, helping working music industry professionals in times of crisis.

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