Foundations and Associations

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Society

• Chopin Foundation of the United States
• Foundation for Baroque Music
• Fundación de Etnomusicología y folklore (FUNDEF)
• Fundación Takian Cay (Córdoba, Argentina)
• Fundación Vicente E. Sojo (Caracas, Venezuela)
• The Foundation Center
• The International Society for the Performing Arts Foundation (ISPA)
• The International Association of Jazz Educators
• National Science Foundation: www.nsf.gov/home/grants.htm or   www.nsf.gov
• Lotte Lehmann Foundation
• George Lucas Educational Foundation: improve teaching and learning via multimedia technology: www.glef.org
• Music Centers and Nonprofit Organizations
• Council of Foundations: www.cof.org
• Living Music Foundation (promoting new music by contemporary classical composers)
• MENC: The National Association for Music Education
• The Music Teachers National Association
• National Endowment for the Arts
• National Music Foundation (Lenox, MA)
• Nimbus Foundation for the Performing Arts
• Kurt Weill Foundation for Music
• Van Cliburn Foundation (Fort Worth, TX)
• Vienna International Pianists
• The William Lincer Foundation - a not-for-profit Corporation,was founded in August 1999 by former students and friends as a way to honor the life and career of one of this century's outstanding viola teachers and performers. The WLF seeks to expand the current repertoire for the viola and sponsors an annual composer competition.

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• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• Grants and grant-writing info: http://www.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/
• Distance Learning Funding Sourcebook: www.technogrants.com
• Federal Information Exchange: research grants for minority colleges: www.fie.com
• Information on federal programs, interest rates, deferments, etc. www.tgslc.org
• Mini grants: http://www.learner.org/sami/
• Music Centers and Nonprofit Organizations: http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/centers.html
• Educational Technology grants and grant writing: www.netc.org/grants/index.html
• The Carnegie Corporation of New York (a grant organization): www.carnegie.org
• The George Lucas Education Foundation: http://glef.org/
• Computers $ Kids. Individuals and organizations donate computers that can be used by schools: www.c4k.org
• The Rural Challenge provides grants to rural schools striving for educational reform: www.ruralchallenge.org

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• Music Centers and Nonprofit Organizations

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• Virtu Foundation, Inc.
• Omaha Symphony Musicians Organization
• The International Manuel Ponce Society, Inc.
• American Music Conference Internet Service
• Pathways to School Improvement (technology planning and implementation guide):
• The National Association of Performing Arts Managers and Agents
• Newtown Friends of Music
• MBIRA, the Non-Profit Organization - Shona mbira music of Zimbabwe: educational info, calendar of concerts and workshops, field recordings available for purchase and more.

Society

• International Bach Society of Artwhistling - The International Bach Society of Artwhistling: Founded "to explore the human whistle's applications in Western classical music and establish genuine artistic standards of whistling performance, education, and literature consistent with those of other instrumental traditions." Our focus is transcriptional Kunstpfeifen / artwhistling / instrumental whistling throughout all classical literature.

• The College Music Society

• Chinese Music Society

• The Film Music Society

• Arizona Irish Music Society

• The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

• Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society

• Canadian University Music Society