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THE ASCAP FOUNDATION OUR MISSION: THE ASCAP FOUNDATION IS DEDICATED TO NURTURING THE MUSIC TALENT OF TOMORROW, PRESERVING THE LEGACY OF THE PAST AND SUSTAINING THE CREATIVE INCENTIVE FOR TODAY’S CREATORS THROUGH A VARIETY OF EDUCATIONAL, PROFESSIONAL AND Notations HUMANITARIAN PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES WHICH SERVE THE ENTIRE MUSIC COMMUNITY. NEWSLETTER FALL/WINTER 2014

THE ASCAP FOUNDATION FOUR DECADES OF MAKING MUSIC GROW

Jack Norworth (1879-1959) is the name behind the beginning of The ASCAP Foundation. First a sailor and then a musical comedy and vaudeville performer, Norworth focused on his talent as a lyricist after a Ziegfi eld audience ovation for Nora Baye’s performance of his song, “Shine on Harvest Moon.” Jack Norworth was inspired by a subway sign to write “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” in 1908 with composer Albert Von Tilzer. Royalties from this song launched The ASCAP Foundation in 1975 after his widow, Amy Norworth, left a bequest to ASCAP to establish the Jack and Amy Norworth Memorial Fund to assist deserving young Jack and Amy Norworth perform one of his compositions in their Laguna Beach, California apartment in 1958. composers. His legacy is honored through our music education, talent development and humanitarian programs across the country. The initial purpose of The ASCAP Foundation was to formulate, promote and support charitable and educational programs in the fi eld of music. To achieve its goals, three programs, which still exist, were initiated: • Grants to Young Composers, which is now: o The Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards o Morton Gould Young Composer Awards • A Songwriters Workshop in the Field of Contemporary Music, which is now: o Jerry Ragovoy Pop Songwriters Workshop in New York o Nashville Pop Songwriters Workshop o Lester Sill Songwriters Workshop in Los Angeles • A Film Scoring Workshop, which is now: o NYU/ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop in Memory of Buddy Baker in NYC ASCAP Foundation Champion Award Recipient Ne-Yo (left) poses with (l-r) ASCAP Foundation President Paul Williams o ASCAP/Columbia University Film Scoring Workshop in NYC & ASCAP Foundation Executive Director Karen Sherry at the o ASCAP Television & Film Scoring Workshop with 18th Annual ASCAP Foundation Awards Ceremony held at Jazz at Lincoln Center in in December 2013. Richard Bellis in Los Angeles As we approach our forty-year milestone and bear witness to the growth and far-reaching impact of The ASCAP Foundation, we thank our donors, our Board of Directors, ASCAP members and the general public for their support and commitment. To date, The ASCAP Foundation has granted $18 million to support countless music creators and over 2,000 organizations nationwide and continues to bring the gift of music to more and more people across the country. Our commitment to school and community-based music programs that depend on us to keep music education alive – and growing – has never wavered. In 2013 alone our eff orts impacted millions of individuals ranging in age from pre-kindergarten children to seniors, while our newly established Music Heals Division supports programs that improve the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of the body by using music as a means of helping people through diffi cult conditions and situations. With you as our partner, we look forward to proudly serving the music community for decades to come! Thank you for being an integral part of The ASCAP Foundation’s success.

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THE ASCAP FOUNDATION FALL/WINTER 2014 Notations PAGE 3 Your Generosity at Work... The ASCAP Foundation funds these programs and many others.

ROSEVILLE HOME START SONGWRIT INGW I T H:SOL DIERS Roseville Home Start’s Music for Kids Program provides weekly SongwritingWith:Soldiers operates from a simple principle — pair music lessons and sing-along time for formerly homeless children returning active duty soldiers and veterans with professional songwriters who are participating in Home Start’s Transitional Housing Program in a retreat setting to craft songs about personal experiences. With a focus with their families. Attending these classes brings joy, opens the on collaboration and building trust, this innovative program off ers a unique children to a new world of human expression, assists with brain path to help soldiers, their families, communities and our nation cope development and brings a new activity that is productive and safe. with the aftermath of combat duty and the challenges of returning home.

WRITEGIRL SUMMER GUITAR PROJECT ̼ FRESH AIR FUND WriteGirl is a creative writing and mentoring program for at-risk girls in Los By donating musical instruments and arranging for songwriters and Angeles pairing professional women songwriters with teen girls for one-on- musicians to work with summer campers, The ASCAP Foundation and one mentoring workshops at venues like Walt Disney Concert Hall. Once the Fresh Air Fund pick up where school budgets leave off by introducing the songs are created, professional musicians perform them for the girls music creation to economically disadvantaged and special needs inner-city and their parents. WriteGirl Lola, who wrote a song about independence, children in a fun countryside setting. For many campers this is their first said that working with songwriters was her favorite part of the workshop. “I felt more confident about songwriting after that,” she said. WriteGirl opportunity to work with a music teacher, learn to play an instrument and makes a difference in the lives of hundreds of young women, encouraging create songs. Since its inception in 1999, thousands of youngsters have their creativity and confidence and guiding them to achieve higher goals. benefited from this music education program.

THE ASCAP FOUNDATION IS A PUBLICLY SUPPORTED 501(C)(3) CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION. WE ARE FUNDED BY CONTRIBUTIONS, BEQUESTS, ROYALTIES AND GRANTS FROM ASCAP MEMBERS, OTHER FOUNDATIONS ƭ THE GENERAL PUBLIC. WE WELCOME YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS, WHICH ARE TAX-DEDUCTIBLE TO THE FULL EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW. PLEASE SUPPORT THE TALENT OF TOMORROW BY MAKING A CONTRIBUTION TODAY. BOARD OF DIRECTORS MARILYN BERGMAN, LYRICIST ROBERT KIMBALL, MUSIC HISTORIAN CHARLES BERNSTEIN, COMPOSER ED , MUSIC BUSINESS MANAGER ADMINISTRATION

PAUL WILLIAMS, PRESIDENT, BRUCE BROUGHTON, COMPOSER , COMPOSER SONGWRITER/PERFORMER/ACTOR KAREN SHERRY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR IRWIN Z. ROBINSON, VICE PRESIDENT, TITA CAHN, TRUSTEE, ESTATE JAMES MCBRIDE, COMPOSER / AUTHOR COLLEEN MCDONOUGH, DIRECTOR MUSIC PUBLISHER ALF CLAUSEN, COMPOSER JAY R. MORGENSTERN, MUSIC PUBLISHER JULIE LAPORE, PROGRAM MANAGER DEAN KAY, TREASURER, DAN FOLIART, COMPOSER STEPHEN SCHWARTZ, COMPOSER / LYRICIST REBECCA KASILAG, DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE SONGWRITER / MUSIC PUBLISHER ARTHUR , COMPOSER / LYRICIST VALERIE SIMPSON, SONGWRITER JOAN HILL, FINANCIAL MANAGER GINNY MANCINI, SECRETARY, WAYLAND HOLYFIELD, COMPOSER / LYRICIST , COMPOSER TRUSTEE, ESTATE JAMES M. KENDRICK, MUSIC PUBLISHER DOUG WOOD, COMPOSER THE ASCAP FOUNDATION FALL/WINTER 2014 1975 Timeline 2014 PAGE 4 A LEGACY OF MUSIC EDUCATION, TALENT DEVELOPMENT AND HUMANITARIAN PROGRAMS ESTABLISHED AND SUPPORTED BY ASCAP FOUNDATION DONORS 1975 - 1983 1984 - 1990 1991- 1997

• Jack & Amy Norworth Bequest establishes • Commission Program • Berklee College of Music Songwriter-in Residence • The ASCAP Foundation • Ira Gershwin Scholarship • Frederick Loewe Scholarship • Young Composer Awards • Rudolf Nissim Prize • Leiber & Stoller Music Scholarships • Raymond Hubbell Award • Scholarship • Sammy Cahn Award • Musical Theater Workshop • Larry Stock Bequest • Rosalie and Joseph Meyer Bequest • Film Scoring Workshop • Boosey & Hawkes Young Composer Award • Leo Kaplan Award • Pop Music Workshop • honoring Aaron Copland • Mitchell DeGroot Bequest • Award • Michael Masser Scholarship • Lifetime Achievement Awards • Louis Dreyfus Warner/Chappell City College Scholarship • Paul and Florence Bennett Cunningham Bequest • Composers Award • honoring George & Ira Gershwin • Louis Armstrong Scholarship at the • Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College • Disney Workshop

1998- 2001 2002 - 2004 2005 - 2008

• John Denver Music Scholarships • NYU/ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop • Billy Joel Scholarships at School of Music supported by BMG Chrysalis in memory of Buddy Baker • Charlotte V. Bergen Scholarship • Music Teacher Recognition Award • Young Jazz Composer Awards • Children Will Listen Program in honor of • Musical Theater Development Program • Living Archive Project - Cain Foundation • Robert Allen Award • Fresh Air Fund Camps Program • Fran Morgenstern Davis Scholarships • Irving Summer Camp Scholarship • Louis Armstrong Jazz Scholarships • Heineken Music Initiative Grant Program for R&B Songwriters • Leon Brettler Award honoring Duke Ellington at UCLA • Richard Adler Musical Theater Development Program • Life in Music Award • New York University Film Studies Fellowship • Lola Brockman Bequest • Irving Burgie Scholarship • Louis Armstrong Award honoring W. C. Handy • Rudy Perez Songwriting Scholarship • Harold Adamson Lyric Awards at Mount Vernon High School • Eunice and Instructor-In-Residence Award & • Jamie deRoy & Friends Award • Charles Kingsford Bequest Merit Award • BMG Chrysalis Scholarship in honor of Quincy Jones • Benny Davis Musical Theater Prize • Steve Kaplan TV and Film Studies Award • Joan and Irwin Robinson Scholarship • “In the Works” Program • The Musical Theater Award and • Award • Livingston & Evans Music Scholarship The Harold Arlen Film & TV Award • The National Endowment for the Arts Grant • “Music in the Schools” Program • David Rose Award • Desmond Child ManUp4Kids & Anthem Award • Morton Gould Young Composer Awards • The Heineken USA Latin And Pop/Rock Grant Program • Creativity in the Classroom Program • Legacy Series • Irving Caesar Bequest • Irving Caesar Scholarships • Audrey Nelson Bequest • The National Endowment for the Arts Grant • Henry Mancini Music Fellowships • John DeVries Bequest

2009 - 2010 2011 - 2012 2013- 2014

• Award • Award • The Lucille and Jack Yellen Award • Jay Gorney Award • Freddy Bienstock Scholarship & Internship • Jerry Ragovoy Award & Pop Workshop • Scholarship in Honor of Louis Armstrong • Mary Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Award • Broadway Conductors Program • Michelle and Dean Kay Award • “Reach Out and Touch” Award in honor of Nick Ashford • in honor of • Barbara and John LoFrumento Award • Bart Howard Songwriting Scholarship • Betty Rose Scholarship • Joe Raposo Children’s Music Award • Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards • George M. Cohan Award • Songwriters: The Next Generation Program • Award made possible by the Friars Foundation • The National Endowment for the Arts Grant • Paul and Mariana Williams • Johnny Mandel Prize • Bart Howard Bequest “Sunlight of the Spirit” Award • Phoebe Jacobs Prize • Jason Mraz “Music in the Schools” Program • Vic Mizzy Scholarship • Deems Taylor/ Awards • The National Endowment for the Arts Grant • Mae Cohen bequest

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