Ten Years of Revolutions Per Minute the highlight reel RPM was founded in 2005 by musicians, managers, and advisors from bands including Pearl Jam, The Beastie Boys, and R.E.M. …
www.revolutionsperminute.net @RPM …to make it easier for artists to create change.
www.revolutionsperminute.net @RPM In the past 10 years, RPM has grown to serve: • Over 1300 musicians & comedians (& their managers). • 18 genres and artistic mediums including Hip- Hop, Indie, Country, EDM, and everything in between. • On over 43 important issues including: Elections, Environment, Education, Immigration, Racial Justice, and Disaster Response.
www.revolutionsperminute.net @RPM RPM’s Artist Labs have brought over 100 artists to the front lines of social justice issues in places like New Orleans, the US- Mexico border, and Appalachia.
www.revolutionsperminute.net @RPM Those artist have generated over $1M in donations and raised critical awareness through original songs, videos, and other creative projects.
www.revolutionsperminute.net @RPM It has been deeply empowering to pair my music with my beliefs and to have a tangible impact on the causes I want to support… It's given every show I play more meaning. —Merrill Garbus, Tune-Yards
www.revolutionsperminute.net @RPM 826 DC Food Literacy Project Neighborhood Bike Works 826 NYC Foundation 4 Change Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Neuse Riverkeeper A Home Within Franklinton Gardens Center New York Cares After School Matters Free Arts Save the Bay Nine Mile Run Watershed ALIVE, Inc. Free Press School on Wheels Association Alternate Roots Future of Music Coalition Second Helpings Nutrition Services—Seattle Appalachian Voices Gateway Greening SF Baykeeper Public Schools Art From Scrap Gateway to the Arts Space One Eleven Occupy Sandy/AfGJ Art-Reach Gazzaley Lab Sustainable South Bronx Octopuses Garden Art Artists for Humanity generation FIVE Sustainable Vocations OPAL Arts Corps Green Guerillas Sweet Home New Orleans Operation Breakthrough ArtsThrough For All Greensgion addRPM, our Sweet Relief Partners In Prevention ASPCA Gulf Restoration Network Sy's Fund Education BAWCC Gumbo Limbo Nature Center Team Rubicon Partnership Against Domestic Bay Area Girls Rock Camp H.E.A.R. Tempe Bike Action Group Violence Boise Urban Garden School Harbor House of Central Florida The Current (Minnesota Public philanthropic programs,Peace Over Violence Bridges to Housing Stability Harvesters-The Community Radio) Peace Winds America Burlington City Arts Foundation Food Network The Florence Project pear portland Casa Cornelia Legal Services HeadCount The Innocence Project People's Grocery Center for Anti-Violence HealthAlliance for Austin The Platte Forum Permaganic Education Musicians Transition House RPM’s network hasPiedmont Land raised Conservancy and Charlotte Tree Fund Heidelberg Project UIC Cure Violence Fund Preble Street Child Abuse Prevention Honor The Earth Up With Trees Project PAVE Services IL Immigrant & Refugee Rights Urban Blazers Project Row Houses Childhaven Coalition Urban Peak Project Sunshine City Year Independent Media Institute Waves For Water directed $2 MillionPublic Knowledge to Clean Ocean Action Inner-City Arts West Atlanta Watershed Alliance Rainey Institute Clean Wisconsin Innocence Project Wexner Center for the Arts Rape Victim Advocates Community Crops Inspire USA Foundation WI League of Conservation Raphael House of Portland Connect NYC Just Harvest Education Voters Institute Rara Tou Limen c/o Dimensions CONTACT USA Kansas Public Radio Wisconsin Voices important nonprofits.Dance Theatre Democracy Now! Laura's House Women Empowered Against REAL School Gardens Do Foundation Little Kids Rock Violence Regional Food Bank of Electronic Frontier Foundation Love For Levon Women Organized Against Oklahoma - Disaster Response ETM-LA Mercy Home for Boys and Girls Rape Safe Connections Express Yourself Milwaukee Music Resource Center Women's Habitat Safe Haven of Pike County Family Violence Prevention Music Therapy at Oakland Womencare Shelter SAFE House Center Children's Hospital WonderRoot San Diego Coastkeeper Fan Free Clinic My Friend's Place Yeah! Berkeley San Francisco Baykeeper Finger Lakes Land Trust National Geographic Society Youth Care San Francisco Women Against Flobots.org Natl Assoc of Free & Charitable Youth Movement Rape Foodwww.revolutionsperminute.net Bank of Northeast Georgia Clinics @RPM This donation is more energizing to our movement than much bigger donations because of who it came from! — Jessy Tolkan, Executive Director of Energy Action Coalition about a $2,500 donation a musician made.
www.revolutionsperminute.net @RPM Through our social media programs, we have generated over $5M in artist-powered earned media for important issues.
www.revolutionsperminute.net @RPM Results from RPM’s work in the 2012 Election: • 620 million fans reached via social media • 11,442 music fans registered to vote • 3,000 voter protection impressions • 150 artists resourced including Mary J. Blige and D’Angelo, Ozomatli, Usher, Rise Against, The Head & The Heart, Beach House + more
www.revolutionsperminute.net @RPM RPM’s staff have supported and produced dozens of creative projects and artistic responses to some of the most pressing issues of our times…
www.revolutionsperminute.net @RPM …and helped artists respond to (and stay engaged in) every major disaster—New Orleans, Southeast Asia Tsunami, the Japan Tsunami, Haiti, Hurricane Sandy, Nepal.
www.revolutionsperminute.net @RPM In short, RPM has engaged hundreds of artists—and tens of thousands of their fans—in democracy, voting, climate change, media justice, music and education, and many, many, more important causes.
www.revolutionsperminute.net @RPM There are a lot of crap reasons to be a rock star. This is one of the good ones. — Thom Yorke, Radiohead
www.revolutionsperminute.net @RPM After a decade of work, RPM is proud to be the lead nonprofit dedicated to helping artists be powerful allies for change. join us. revolutionsperminute.net @rpm www.facebook.com/RPM
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