About
The Mission
Project Rhythm Seed Foundation is committed to provide ongoing funding for school music programs and education. This is our way, as musicians, of making sure that every kid in the world has a chance to learn how to read music, play an instrument and follow their dreams. We also support and fund college and university scholarship programs for those young adults pursuing music as a career, either as a teacher or as a working musician, and we will be working with manufacturing partners to help put musical instruments into the hands of children who need them.
As our economy has tightened, the normal pipelines providing funding for music programs has constricted to a mere dribble. Music programs are one of the first to be cut in public schools throughout the US. The children who are most affected by this financial constriction are the children who most depend on it – inner city and rural community schools. High risk kids. Its a well known fact that creative minds need to be engaged. Left to themselves and starved of artistic growth their lives can easily spin out of control.
Bill Gates recently said that we need to explore new ways within the current financial structure to create funds for philanthropy. He has already conceded that, even with the resources of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the threat cannot be eradicated unless sweeping changes are sought. There needs to be a change in the way we look at business in general. This change is the main ingredient that fuels The Project Rhythm Seed Foundation. We are social entrepreneurs. We are capitalists serving a nonprofit purpose. We are applying our talents and the generosity of other talented individuals to solve a social issue that, if left alone, will only get worse.
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