ASCAP Member Jason Mraz "Gives Back"

Grammy-nominated, Atlantic recording artist and ASCAP member Jason Mraz, known for many popular hits including "Remedy (I Won't Worry)," "You and I Both" and "Wordplay" decided to "give back" by making a contribution to The ASCAP Foundation to support its "Music in the Schools" program.

The Jason Mraz "Music in the Schools" Program partners The ASCAP Foundation with VH1 Save the Music Foundation and Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. to provide folios, sheet music, band arrangements and method books to the public schools nationwide selected by VH1 to receive musical instruments, thereby providing quality music for students to play as they learn their instruments.

Since the program's inception in 2000, over 1,500 public schools across the country have received instruments and accompanying folios, sheet music, band arrangements and method books impacting millions of children. In addition, schools receive information on Creativity in the Classroom: Creative Ownership and Copyright, a unique curriculum for grades 3, 4 and 5 designed to help students recognize their own creative work and understand their rights as owners of intellectual property as well as the ethics of protecting and respecting the creative property of others.