The ASCAP Foundation -- Making a Difference

The ASCAP Foundation, established in 1975, is a publicly supported charitable organization, dedicated to supporting American music creators and encouraging their careers through music education and talent development programs.

Maurice Brown and Quamon Fowler are two of sixteen recipients of the first annual ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards, which encourages jazz composition. Gabriella Frank, a recipient of the Morton Gould Young Composer Awards performs "Finale Saqsampillo" from her multi-movement work for solo piano. Lori McKenna, recipient of The ASCAP Foundation Sammy Cahn Award, presented annually to a promising lyricist, performs her song "Hardly Speaking A Word."

The ASCAP Foundation supports programs in all musical genres that are national or regional in scope. These programs comprise songwriting workshops, scholarships, awards and recognition programs, music education initiatives, public service projects for senior composers and lyricists and grants to other 501(c)(3) organizations engaged in educational programs for aspiring songwriters and composers. Thousands of music creators benefit annually from programs of The ASCAP Foundation.

The ASCAP Foundation is proud of its many efforts to bring music into the public schools and summer camps. Some examples are ASCAP Foundation programs at the Fresh Air Fund Camps in upstate New York, the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts Camp in Colorado, the International Music Camp in North Dakota, the Walden School in New Hampshire. Just four years ago, we launched a ground-breaking music education project: the very first summer music camp in New York City, in partnership with the New York City Board of Education and the Manhattan School of Music.

The ASCAP Foundation also joined forces with VH1 Save the Music Foundation (which donates instruments to public schools nationwide) by supplying sheet music, method books and band arrangements (in partnership with Warner Bros. Publications) so the students in these schools will have quality music to play as they learn their instruments.

In addition, The ASCAP Foundation is collaborating with The National Association for Music Education and The National School Boards Association, among others, to ensure that decision makers in educational communities are aware of the importance of ongoing music programs in their schools and are encouraged to integrate music education into the core curriculum.

The ASCAP Foundation is particularly proud of its award recipients who have recently achieved outstanding success and recognition in their respective musical fields. They include: Grammy Award winner, John Mayer; Golden Globe and Academy Award winner, Elliot Goldenthal; and Lawrence O'Keefe, whose musical Bat Boy, was a recent off-Broadway hit.

GIVING

The ASCAP Foundation is supported by contributions, bequests and grants from ASCAP members, other foundations and the general public. For the year ended December 31, 2002, The ASCAP Foundation received $2.3 million in direct public support, which includes a generous bequest from the Irving Caesar Trust. For the same time period, The ASCAP Foundation spent $622,000 on program services reflecting 81% of total expenses. Contributions to The ASCAP Foundation are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law.

LEADERSHIP

The ASCAP Foundation would like to thank all of our donors, especially those identified below: Richard Adler, The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, The Cain Foundation, Irving Caesar Trust, Joan and Jay Morgenstern, Jerry Herman, Ginny Mancini and Mary Rodgers, who have made significant contributions in 2002 to establish on-going named programs. For information about establishing a program, or making a bequest to The ASCAP Foundation, please contact us at: 212-621-6320 or 212-621-6219.

	The Richard Adler-ASCAP Foundation Musical Theater Development Program nurtures new composers, lyricists and librettists.
	The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, Inc. supports many ASCAP Foundation Jazz programs including scholarships honoring Louis Armstrong, W.C. Handy, Duke Ellington and the New Orleans Summer Jazz Camp.
	The Living Archive Project, which videotapes interviews with prominent ASCAP songwriter and composer members, was initiated by a grant from The Cain Foundation and directed by Wofford Denius.
	The Irving Caesar Trust makes possible far-reaching programs in music education and musical theater.
	The ASCAP Foundation Fran Morgenstern Davis Scholarship was established by Jay and Joan Morgenstern to support composition students at the Manhattan School of Music.

Three Henry Mancini Music Scholarships are presented annually to students studying music composition at the Henry Mancini Institute. Ginny Mancini presents a 2002 scholarship to Nathaniel Fox Beversluis.

ASCAP provides generous in-kind support which enables The ASCAP Foundation to provide opportunities for professional development to emerging composers and songwriters.

The ASCAP Foundation Jerry Herman Legacy Series was developed to present the musical theater experience to young people nationwide and nurture the musical theater audiences of tomorrow. Jerry Herman is pictured with three Jerry Herman Legacy Series Scholarship recipients, (l-r) Teanna Berry, Clarissa Bruno and Jackson Tobiska.

Alan and Marilyn Bergman with Mary Rodgers congratulating Stephen Sondheim on receiving The ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers Award for Lifetime Achievement in the American Musical Theater.