Working Together

ASCAP Foundation Partnerships Keep Music in the Schools

Since 2000, The ASCAP Foundation has partnered with the VH1 Save the Music Foundation and Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. to provide sheet music, orchestra and band arrangements and folios to thousands of public school students nationwide through the "Music in the Schools" initiative. "Music in the Schools" complements the existing VH1 Save the Music Program, which delivers musical instruments to public schools across the country, by simultaneously delivering folios, sheet music, orchestra and band arrangements andmethod books to ensure that students have quality music to play as they learn their instruments. Alfred Publishing Co. provides the music packages to the schools.

In a recent email to The ASCAP Foundation, Sherry Nix, Early Childhood/Strings Instructor from Kendall-Whittier Elementary School in Oklahoma wrote: "Thank you for your contribution of the music package to Kendall-Whittier Elementary School. Your generous donation will provide many years of enrichment to our strings program."

In the 2007-08 school year over 120 elementary andmiddle schools across the country received music materials through this vital music education program. Since the program's inception in 2000, over 1,000 public schools have received sheet music and band arrangements, impacting the lives of close to 1 million public school children.