From Sore to Soar

Music

Advocacy & Resources

• Alex Townsend Memorial Foundation

  • Website: http://atownfoundation.org

  • Description: helping Savannah, GA to instill self-esteem, confidence, and optimism in young creative people through the popular A-Town series of festivals for music and art

• Jubilation foundation

  • Website: https://jubilationfoundation.org

  • Description: Ended in 2023, but offered fellowship to individuals, unrestricted no-strings-attached music and movement grants

• $ MusiCares

  • Website: https://www.musicares.org

  • Description: Anyone in the music industry including musicians, songwriters, engineers, producers, live crew, tour bus drivers, managers, agents, A&R, makeup artists, costume designers, music video creator & technicians, etc can apply for mental health & addiction recovers, health services, human services assistance. This includes help paying for financial, mental health and addiction recovery assistance, emergency payments, healthcare costs, therapies, financial expenses, loss of wages, housing, legal issues, senior services, utilities. Funds can be used for counseling/therapy, outpatient programming, sober living placement and costs, smoking cessation efforts, education services and more.

• $ Pandion Music Foundation

  • Website: https://pandionmusicfoundation.org

  • Description: Making music careers more attainable, creating community and skill-building opportunities for music creaters in LA and beyond. Programs include music industry workshops, teen music mentorship, music community and networking, and music & wellness resources. Includes music making Grants support nonprofit public service organizations that expand access and opportunity to music education for thousands of individuals and provide innovative music education and hands-on music-making programs

• $ Pinetop Perkins Foundation (PAL)

  • Website: https://www.pinetopperkinsfoundation.org

  • Description: provides financial assistance to elderly musicians for medical and living expenses

• * Pianos for People

  • Website: https://pianosforpeople.org

  • Description: provides quality donated pianos to new homes, in the St. Louis Missouri area

• Reva

  • Website: https://www.revainc.org

  • Description: A jazz women’s hangout that educates, inspires, and heals people and communities

• NPR

  • Website: https://www.npr.org

  • Description: Supports national and local programming including radio, news, talk, culture, music, podcast and entertainment shows.

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