Round Three (November 2001): $36,466 $3,500 to Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District (Yucaipa, CA) to purchase additional instruments for Toot Your Own Horn, a community-wide loan program for fifth grade students who want to learn to play but whose families cannot afford to rent or purchase instruments. The grant matches funds collected by parents. $5,000 to Shropshire Music Foundation (Litchfield, AZ) for the Kosovo Youth Performance Project, a summer-camp-based program of the Kosovo Children's Music Initiative which will involve Kosovar Albanian, Serbian, Bosniak, and Roma (Gypsy) youth (ages 7 to 16) in the composition, staging, and public performance of a musical production promoting human rights and multi-ethnic tolerance in Gjakove in summer 2002. $3,496 to Riverview Elementary School (Sioux City, IA) to fully fund Jambo!, a six-week-long unit of hands-on participation in a traditional Zimbabwean miramba ensemble for the 240 native-born minority students, ESL (English as a Second Language) immigrant students, and low-income students in grades 3-5. $5,000 to Harcum College (Bryn Mawr, PA) to provide eight full scholarships for low-income teens (ages 11 to 17) from Philadelphia public schools to attend a residential Summer Music Program during the summer of 2002. $4,500 to Feed God's Children (Flemingsburg, KY) to provide instructors, instruments, and other needs for the implementation of "Music for Kids", a set of master classes in banjo, mandolin, fiddle, and bluegrass vocalization for 40 at-risk chilidren (ages 6 to 18) in Kentucky's economically distressed Appalachian counties. $5,000 to the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts (Richmond, CA) to purchase keyboards for a new introductory music class for new students, percussion instruments from various cultures (Brazilian, Caribbean, West African, and Mexican) for a World Percussion class, and an accordian for Resident Company director and master Mexican folklorist Artemio Posadas. $4,970.22 to Conte West Hills Magnet School (New Haven, CT) for the instruments and curricular materials necessary for a World Music Drumming program that will reach more than 670 students with the music of Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. $5,000 to Colden Center for the Performing Arts at Queens College (Flushing, NY) for the Jazz Residency Program, which introduces jazz to high school youth, to develop a teaching curriculum for six jazz clinics, develop and produce a student handbook, and establish a professional development workshop for high school band teachers. Round Two (August 2001): $116,134 Alaska: Petersburg Children's Center, in Petersburg Arkansas: St. Joseph Junior High School, in Pine Bluff California: Santa Cruz City Schools The San Francisco Arts Education Project The School of the Madeleine, in Berkeley Connecticut: Fairfield University, in Fairfield Florida: Smart School, in Lauderhill Idaho: Garden Valley Schools Illinois: The Merit Music Program, in Chicago Perez Elementary, in Chicago (see photo at right) Louisianna: The Saint Marks Community Center, in New Orleans Massachusettes: Arts in Progress, in Boston Codman Square Health Center, in Dorchester Service Net, in Northampton Maine: Youthlinks' Rock City Rollers, in Rockland Michigan: The Grand Traverse Band Of Ottawa, in Suttons Bay New York: The Learning Project, in NYC The Portraits Project, in NYC The Schenectady Symphony Orchestra * South Dakota: St. Joseph's Indian School, in Chamberlain Texas: Youth Orchestra of San Antonio Virginia: Hilda J. Barbour Elementary School, in Front Royal Washington: Boys & Girls Clubs of Bellevue Seattle Symphony Treehouse, in Seattle Wellpinit School District Students at Perez Elementary in Chicago, learning on keyboards purchased with a grant from the Mockingbird Foundation. Students at Hilda J. Barbour in Virginia, learning on guitars purchased with a grant from the Mockingbird Foundation. * This grant will allow the expansion, into Shenedehowa High School in Saratoga County, of the mentoring program that matches professional musicians with orchestral students. An instructor helps a student with a small-necked Athabascan fiddle, purchased through a grant from the Mockingbird Foundation. Round One (March 2001): $10,500 A grant of $5,000 was awarded to the Athabascan Music Program of the Yukon-Koyukuk School District in Alaska. This program seeks to reintroduce traditional music and instruments to the underserved and disenfranchised villages of the Yukon and Koyukuk River Valleys. It focuses on instruction in eleven rural and isolated schools, and combines a travelling professional fiddler/guitarist with the involvement of village elders. The Mockingbird Foundation's grant will help purchase instruments for the younger children - percussion, rhythm, and small-necked Athabascan fiddles (see photo at right) and guitars with which they can actively participate in the program. A grant of $3,000 was awarded to the New Mexico Jazz Workshop in Albuquerque. Part of the Workshop's five-program education series is a Summer Jazz Camp for children 6-12. The Mockingbird Foundation's grant will re-instate, for 2001, scholarships for low-income students to participate. Specifically, the grant will allow fifteen students to attend the Camp at a discounted tuition rate for two weeks this summer. A grant of $2,500 was awarded to Art Sanctuary and the LIFE After School Program in Philadelphia. Art Sanctuary is an African-American arts organization housed in the Church of the Advocate. The LIFE program serves 50-80 elementary and middle-school children, to whom Art Sanctuary has introduced an artist-in-residency project to teach traditional drumming techniques indigenous to West African cultures. The Mockingbird grant pays for the instructor, assistants, and drums needed for the six-month program.

Detroit School Vandalism Recovery (February 2004): $300

The Foundation made a small contribution to help a Detroit public school recover from the vandalism of more than sixty instruments.