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From November 1 through December 8, 2024, your donation to the D’Addario Foundation will go toward our Giving Tuesday campaign. Your generosity during this time will help us provide grants to nonprofit music education organizations around the world, award college scholarships to talented young people, and conduct scientific research on the benefits of immersive music instruction.
The D’Addario Foundation is delighted to announce its grantees for the second half of 2024. In this cycle, the Foundation awarded $165.7k in cash donations and $41.8k in in-kind product donations to support 83 nonprofit community music education programs across 27 U.S. states and 8 countries.
After leading the D’Addario Foundation for 15 years, Suzanne D'Addario Brouder has stepped down, leaving the Foundation in the capable hands of Karen Shelley.
The D'Addario Foundation & long-time partner, Hungry for Music, donate high-quality violins to four advancing young musicians across the US.
The D'Addario Foundation & Hungry for Music receive a donation of 3,500+ band & orchestra instrument donations as a result of the closure of two Connecticut instrument rental companies.
The D’Addario Foundation is thrilled to announce the award of $440,750 in monetary and product grants going to 178 music education programs in 35 U.S. states and seven countries worldwide.
We're proud to announce the 2023 recipients of the D’Addario Foundation College Scholarship.
The D’Addario Foundation is thrilled to announce the award of $221,000 in monetary and product grants to 96 music education programs spanning across 26 U.S. states and 4 countries.
Back in 2016 the D’Addario Foundation team met a young student living in the Bronx named Randy Leon. He was a cellist at a D’Addario Foundation supported program in his neighborhood. Now, he co-manages the New York Youth Symphony where he works with inner city students.
We're honored to award Thomas Kurtz, Professor of Music at San Antonio College and Doctoral Candidate at the University of Texas Austin, the first Kevin Garren Memorial Scholarship.
Announcing this year's winners of Musicians Institute's Women in Guitar and Women in Drums Scholarships, funded by the D'Addario Foundation.
Updates from our college scholarship recipients as they head into the fall 2022 semester of their freshmen, sophomore, junior, and senior years.
A spotlight on graduating Intonation Music student, Johnathan Campbell, who is also a 2022 recipient of the D'Addario Foundation College Scholarship.
The D’Addario Foundation is pleased to announce 12 outstanding students in the 2022 class of D’Addario Foundation College Scholarship Recipients.
The D’Addario Foundation establishes the Kevin Garren Scholarship, a memorial scholarship that encourages creative problem solving for musicians and music educators.
The D'Addario Foundation is partnering with Musicians Institute to launch the new Women in Drums Scholarship beginning in Spring 2022.
The D’Addario Foundation is thrilled to announce the award of $487,500 in monetary and product grants to 170 music education programs across 104 cities throughout the US and Canada for 2021.
We're honored to partner with the Tom Petty Estate to raise proceeds for the Girls in Music Initiative through a limited-edition collection celebrating Tom Petty’s masterpiece Wildflowers, designed by Rodarte.
The D'Addario Foundation's Form 990 for fiscal year ending 12.31.20.