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 About Us
Chris Bertolet
    
Charlie Dirksen *
  Vice President & Associate Counsel
Herschel Gelman *
   
Ellis Godard *^
  Executive Director & Treasurer
Jeremy Goodwin
   
Jack Lebowitz
  Secretary, General Counsel
Dan Purcell *
   
Jim Raras, Jr.
   
David Steinberg *
   
Marcie Vogel *
   
Marco Walsh
  President
     
Andy Gadiel
   Jambase.com Founder
Brad Serling
   Founder nugs.net & livephish.com
David Shulman
   Mimi Fishman Foundation Executive Director
Dean Budnick
   Jambands.com Founder, Relix Editor
Jason Colton
   Dionysian Productions
Joshua Stack
   Panic Fans for Food Founder
Judith Ranger Smith
   Singing for Change Executive Director
Justin Baker
   Conscious Alliance Founder
Kevin Shapiro
   Official Phish Archivist
Mike Wren
   FLAC, FurthurNet, etree.org, et al.
Paul Glace
   Phantasy Tour Creator
Syd Schwartz
   Virgin Records VP, Interactive Marketing
Ted Kartzman
   Jambase.com Co-Founder
Tom Marshall
   Phish Lyricist, Amfibian Founder
     
Directors Emeriti
Charlz Franz *
   
Craig DeLucia *
  Founder
Dan Hantman ^
   
Dan Seideman
   
Dave Donohue *
   
Eddie Dinel *
   
Joe Rioux *
   
John Wood *
   
Mark Goldberg *
   
Mark Toscano ^
   

* founding directors (as of Mockingbird's incorporation on March 26, 1997)
^ Past President of the Board


Please note that the Foundation is all-volunteer, including the Board of Directors, and is not supported by any paid staff or employees. There are no salaries, honoraria, or any other forms of compensation.

Our Mission:
Making Music Fit hte Child, Evergreen School, Ft. Lewis, WA The Mockingbird Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organization of Phish fans, founded to raise money for charity. The original project was the compilation of the most factually accurate and delightfully literary book on Phish's music available, with contributions from as many fans as possible. The Foundation now produces a wider range of resources and diversions for fans, including a Phish cover album. No member or volunteer benefits financially from the Foundation in any way, and all proceeds from Mockingbird projects are donated to tax-exempt organizations. The Foundation's primary purpose is charitable, out of love for and thanks to Phish for their inspiring music.

The Mockingbird Foundation is an unconventional organization: it has no salaries, paid staff, office space, or endowment -- thus distributing all possible funds to charity. It exists almost exlcusively online, using the Internet to avoid travel and other expenses typically associated with grant-making entities. The Foundation has earned 501(c)3 tax-exempt status from Internal Revenue Service, thus making donations tax-deductible. Such contributions to the Foundation are applied directly to the next round of regular grants in the funding cycle.

Outreach:

"Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they're born with a song of their own, an innate riff that happens to be one of the most versatile of all ornithological expressions, mockingbirds aren't content to merely play the hand that is dealt them. Like all artists, they are out to rearrange reality. Innovative, willful, daring, not bound by the rules to which others may blindly adhere, the mockingbird collects snatches of birdsong from this tree and that field, appropriates them, places them in new and unexpected contexts, recreates the world from the world. For example, a mockingbird in South Carolina was heard to blend the songs of thirty-two different kinds of birds into a ten-minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art."

- from Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins

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