Music Production student Kamari Carter works on a project at GRAMMY Camp 2008.
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Music is a gift whose value is magnified most in the giving. Musicians share their talents with us, and in passing them on, create something larger that brings people together in a way nothing else has the power to do.
In 1989, The Recording Academy® established The GRAMMY Foundation® to sustain music and its makers — past, present and future — as a force in all of our lives.
The GRAMMY Foundation influences the lives of young people by opening the windows of opportunity that music can provide for their futures. We also lead the efforts to ensure that the contributions made by our musical icons live on in our cultural heritage.
The GRAMMY Foundation was established in 1989 to cultivate the understanding, appreciation and advancement of the contribution of recorded music to American culture — from the artistic and technical legends of the past to the still unimagined musical breakthroughs of future generations of music professionals.
American Idol's musical director Rickey Minor leads a workshop with GRAMMY Campers.
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Under the banner of GRAMMY in the Schools®, the GRAMMY Foundation produces and supports music education programs for high schools students across the country throughout the year.
Held on university campuses, GRAMMY® Career Day provides students with insight into careers in music through daylong conferences offering workshops with artists and industry professionals. The 2008 GRAMMY® Career Day season represented the program's 20th year, and since the program’s inception, more than 7,500 industry professionals and more than 200,700 students have participated in GRAMMY Career Day. GRAMMY Career Day events occurred in 13 cities and 11 states in 2008.
GRAMMY Career Day is presented by the Gibson Foundation with support from the Starkey Hearing Foundation.
Click here for a complete list of 2008 GRAMMY Career Days.
GRAMMY SoundChecks allow students to attend professional soundchecks of a broad range of emerging and established touring artists. In 2008, 38 artists, along with technical and industry professionals, gave young people perspectives on music careers through conversations about the specifics of their jobs and the necessary tools and education required for success.
Click here for a complete list of 2008 GRAMMY SoundChecks.
2008 Jazz Ensembles drummer Brian Carter at Capitol Recording Studio.
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Just as the GRAMMY Award recognizes excellence in recording, the GRAMMY Signature Schools program, presented by the Gibson Foundation, honors top public high school music programs with cash grants. The Foundation established the Enterprise Award in 2004 for needs-based applicants in underserved communities. Since the program's inception, 662 public high schools were selected as GRAMMY Signature Schools and awarded $852,000 in grants. In 2008, 14 public high schools representing 13 cities and 10 states were selected as GRAMMY Signature Schools. GRAMMY Signature Schools is approved by the National Association of Secondary School Principals and MENC: The National Association for Music Education.
Click here for a complete list of the 2008 GRAMMY Signature Schools.
The GRAMMY Jazz Ensembles program selects top high school instrumentalists and singers and brings them to the host city of the GRAMMY Awards for a once-in-a-lifetime experience where they rehearse, perform and record together — often with GRAMMY Award-winning guest artists — at a series of high profile GRAMMY Week events. The program, in its 16th year, selected 30 high school singers and instrumentalists representing 26 cities and 14 states. In addition, nearly $2 million in scholarships is offered to many ensemble members by Berklee College of Music, Manhattan School of Music, New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, and USC Thornton School of Music.
The program is sponsored by Gibson/Baldwin with additional support by Capitol Recording Studios, the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, Guitar Center Hollywood, the International Association for Jazz Education, SmartMusic and Zildjian, and is approved by the National Association of Secondary School Principals.
Click here for a complete list of the 2008 GRAMMY Jazz Ensembles performances.
Edwin Carranza performs at the Salvation Army Red Shield Youth and Community Center during the camp's Community Service Day.
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GRAMMY Camp is an interactive residential summer program for students that focuses on all aspects of the commercial music industry. The curriculum is led by core faculty and guest artists and music professionals, and it emphasizes new music technologies across a range of career tracks. GRAMMY Camp covers all aspects of creating, performing and recording, and it culminates in media projects, CD recordings and/or showcase performances.
Approximately 80 percent of 62 Campers who applied for financial aid received scholarship assistance based on need, and 27 percent of GRAMMY Campers who applied for financial aid received full scholarships (click here for a complete list).
The program offered 12 music career tracks, including Audio Engineering, DJ-Remixing, Music Journalism, Music Production, and performance tracks in Keyboard, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Saxophone, Trumpet, Trombone and Singing/Songwriting. Learning opportunities were enhanced by field trips from AEG Live and CNN to Flyte Tyme Studios and the Hollywood Bowl, industry panels and a broad range of guest artists.
I don't know how to begin to say THANK YOU for the most wonderful, exciting, and educational two weeks of GRAMMY Camp. Before camp, I had only some idea about the various career opportunities in the music business world. I now understand how the different areas of the business work and mesh together.
— Music Journalism/Concert Promotion GRAMMY Camper
The program is hosted by the University of Southern California (USC) Thornton School of Music and sponsored in part by Epiphone.
The GRAMMY Foundation's Web site — grammyintheschools.com — provides comprehensive information about careers in the music industry and applications for GRAMMY in the Schools programs.
Maybelle Carter and Mike Seeger perform at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival
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The GRAMMY Foundation's preservation and advancement initiatives foster dialogue about the compelling issues facing the music industry, support projects that increase the understanding of music and its role in society and raise public awareness of the urgent need to preserve our nation's recorded sound legacy.
The Grant Program, with funding generously provided by The Recording Academy, awards grants annually to organizations and individuals in two categories: scientific research studies that advance our knowledge of the impact of music on the human condition, and archiving projects that implement or plan the preservation of the music and recorded sound heritage of the Americas for future generations. In 2008, the GRAMMY Foundation® Grant Program awarded $600,000 in grants for music research and sound preservation to 22 recipients across the United States and Canada.
Funds were granted to help facilitate an extraordinary range of research, archiving and preservation projects on a variety of subjects, including: understanding the brain systems involved in emotional music perception in typically-developing and autistic adolescents; preserving and organizing Herman Leonard's large, historically significant archive of 65,000 negatives; and prioritizing and stabilizing materials in the Moog archives, which represent pivotal works in synthesis. Click here for a complete list of grant awards and projects.
The Living Histories program preserves on visual media the life stories of key recording industry professionals and visionaries who helped create the history of recorded sound. Footage is used by the GRAMMY Foundation and partner organizations to develop educational programs that tell the unique stories of our musical history. To date, the Foundation has completed nearly 200 interviews with artists, producers, executives and technology pioneers.
Ryan Shaw and Musiq Soulchild perform at the 10th Annual Music Preservation Project
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The Music Preservation Project partners with organizations and archives to chronicle and preserve historic music performances and materials. The project has collaborated with organizations and archives such as the Louis Armstrong House and Archives, Leonard Bernstein estate, Country Music Hall of Fame, Woody Guthrie Archives, Historic New Orleans Collection, Library of Congress, Louisiana State Museum, and the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies. Each year during GRAMMY Week, the GRAMMY Foundation produces a preservation-themed event designed to heighten public awareness of the program.
The GRAMMY Foundation was instrumental in writing and successfully passing the National Recording Preservation Act. This legislation created a National Recording Preservation Board that works with the Librarian of Congress and the public to select entries for the National Recording Registry, ensuring the preservation of these designated historic recordings. Since passage of the act in 2000, more than 200 recordings have been added to the registry.
The Entertainment Law Initiative® (ELI) is comprised of three components: a legal seminar series, a national scholarship essay competition for law students and a high-profile luncheon during GRAMMY Week that is attended by students, music attorneys, executives and members of The Recording Academy. Since its inception in 1999, The Entertainment Law Initiative has granted close to $100,000 in scholarships to aspiring law students. In 2008, the winning paper was " New Year, New Catch-22: Why The RIAA’s Proposed Partnership With Isps Will Not Significantly Decrease The Prevalence Of P2P Music File Sharing" by David A. McGill of University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law.
The 2008 ELI Luncheon was the highest grossing in the event's history and also set an attendance record with 548 people on hand. In addition, ELI expanded its panel presentation activities by adding panels at the University of Miami and St. John's University School of Law.
Yoko Ono, Sir George Martin, and Olivia Harrison
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The GRAMMY Foundation produces fundraising events throughout the year to provide resources for our programs.
The GRAMMY Foundation organizes its annual signature Starry Night gala — presented by the Gibson Foundation — to honor noteworthy humanitarians whose charitable work and contributions align with our mission.
Throughout the year, the Foundation benefits from our GRAMMY® Charity Online Auctions, which feature exclusive VIP experiences and memorabilia presented in partnership with Kompolt at www.ebay.com/grammy.
As our industry responds to current technological and economic shifts, the need to broaden and sustain our mission increases. Your help is more important now than ever. When considering a charity for your personal contribution or corporate affiliation, please remember that you can make a real difference in the lives of the people we serve through support of the GRAMMY Foundation. Donate now.
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