Creating Music Making Opportunities for People of All Ages | NAMM Foundation

Music Making grants support nonprofit public service organizations who expand access and opportunity to music education for thousands of individuals and provide innovative music education and hands-on music making programs.

For the past several years, The NAMM Foundation has received hundreds of requests for grants and is grateful for nonprofit organizations around the world who seek to provide opportunities for people of all ages to learn and make music. The hundreds of requests received every year far surpassed the Foundation's budgetary resources for grants. Therefore we are currently not reviewing additional organizations to be invited to apply to be considered for a grant.

The NAMM Foundation's Music Making Program Grants are one aspect of the Foundation's activities. We invite and encourage you to participate in the Foundation's SupportMusic Coalition and freely use the advocacy materials available on our website.

Grantee Spotlights

Recent Articles

October 8, 2024
More to Start, Fewer to Quit-October's Tips to Help Grow Your Music Program
September 9, 2024
More to Start, Fewer to Quit-September's Tips to Help Grow Your Music Program
August 14, 2024
More to Start, Fewer to Quit-August's Tips to Help Grow Your Music Program

Community Spotlight

When a child learns music it is much more than notes and scales; they discover themselves...it challenges you with creativity and demands self-discipline. It takes commitment and teamwork.

- Student, Age 20, Van Nuys, CA

Did you know?

"Creativity is driven from within the child, from education, from culture, from surroundings… The challenge is to help children keep the balance." Hanne Deneire, composer.

Quoted in "Appreciating Music as a Foundational Aspect of Creativity" by Joanne Foster. Feb. 3, 2018

Stay Informed

NAMM Foundation Website © 2024, NAMM Foundation and its parent (or licensors). All rights reserved. This site and its content or materials may not be reproduced, displayed, modified, or distributed without the express prior written permission of The NAMM Foundation. Show more...

NAMM Foundation Website © 2024, NAMM Foundation and its parent (or licensors).

The NAMM Foundation provides you only with a revocable, limited, non-exclusive, nontransferable license to access and view on a remotely accessible basis a single copy of The NAMM Foundation Site (and its available materials or content) solely for your personal purposes. The NAMM Foundation reserves all rights not expressly granted. Moreover, The NAMM Foundation Site (and its available materials or content) cannot be further copied, modified, or excerpted; used, displayed, transmitted, or distributed with or to third parties; or offered for resale or use, without the prior written consent of The NAMM Foundation.

THE NAMM FOUNDATION WEBSITE AND ITS CONTENT AND MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS-IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. YOU ASSUME THE SOLE RISK OF MAKING USE OF THE NAMM FOUNDATION WEBSITE. MOREOVER, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE NAMM FOUNDATION (or its parent or licensors) BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH YOUR USE OF THE NAMM FOUNDATION WEBSITE.

THE NAMM FOUNDATION, NAMM FOUNDATION plus logo design, NAMM, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUSIC MERCHANTS, and all other names, logos, and icons identifying The NAMM Foundation and its programs, products, and services are proprietary trademarks of The NAMM Foundation (or its parent or licensors), and any use of such marks without the express written permission of The NAMM Foundation is strictly prohibited. Show less...