GIFT DESIGNATION: MUSIC MAKING OPPORTUNITIES

Your donation to this gift category opens doors for more people of all ages and abilities to start and keep engaged with hands-on music making opportunities. It enables The NAMM Foundation to support music service organizations around the world in their work to expand access, equity and opportunity to music education for tens of thousands of individuals each year, and to provide innovative music education and hands-on music making programs.

The NAMM Foundation currently supports over twenty domestic and international music service organizations that provide access to music education. This year, following a rigorous vetting process, a total of $482,500 was awarded to twenty-three programs (seventeen domestic and six international) each strengthening access to music making for people of all ages across various communities and demographics.

The NAMM Museum of Making Music, a signature program of The NAMM Foundation and located in NAMM’s headquarters in Carlsbad, California, explores and celebrates the people and products that bring music to our world. Through unique world class exhibitions, innovative live performances, and immersive educational programming, the Museum is committed to helping everyone find—or recognize—their own unique place in the world of making music.

Community Music Making initiatives promote and support the far-reaching benefits of making music across the lifespan. Activities include global music making and learning events that are part of Make Music Day (June 21) and Make Music Winter (December 21) spreading the joys and deep impact of making music.