America Scores, ASCAP Saves

ASCAP writers participate in a new school program that inspires children through songwriting. And it's environment-friendly too.



America SCORES, an after-school program that uses poetry and soccer to inspire literacy, healthy living and civic responsibility among urban youth, has partnered with The ASCAP Foundation to present a new program, ASCAP Songwriter Residency @ America SCORES. The new program is designed to provide an engaging and inspiring way for kids to express themselves through songwriting, while teaching them to value and respect their own creative work and that of others. Those writers who have participated to date include hip-hop songwriter Lysette Titi, Americana-rock songwriter John Francis, children's music creators Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer and Latin music songwriter Roberto Poveda.

The ASCAP Songwriter Residency @ America SCORES
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Working with NativeEnergy, ASCAP calculated the CO2 emissions this event would generate, from the electricity in the classrooms, to the travel by car bus or subway of all of the students, teachers and staff involved. It was three tons of Carbon. We offset these C02 emissions through the purchase of clean, renewable wind energy credits from NativeEnergy. American Indian majority-owned, NativeEnergy is a leading national marketer of renewable energy credits or "green tags," offering individuals and organizations a means to compensate for their global warming pollution, or to effectively power their homes and businesses with renewable energy. NativeEnergy's patent-pending business process brings upfront payment to renewable projects for their estimated future green tag output, enabling its customers to help directly finance the construction of specific new wind farms and other renewable energy projects, such as tribal wind projects and methane digesters and wind turbines on America's family dairy farms. These projects reduce our reliance on fossil fuels to meet the nation's electricity needs. NativeEnergy is the choice of leading environmentally and socially responsible organizations and individuals, including creators of the film An Inconvenient Truth, Ben & Jerry's, Clif Bar, Stonyfield Farm, Interface, Aveda, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Dave Matthews Band, Jack Johnson, Co-op America, NRDC, the Clinton Global Initiative, Bonnaroo Festival, and thousands of individuals. NativeEnergy also offers Green-e certified green tags from operating wind farms and Climate Neutral Network certified offsets from operating CO2 mitigation projects. Online at: www.nativeenergy.com


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