News: Philanthropy

November 28, 2023

Reverb Sponsors the J Dilla Music Technology Grant

Reverb has announced its sponsorship of the Save The Music Foundation’s J Dilla Music Technology Grant. The latest step in the five-year partnership…

November 20, 2023

Gig Gear Donates 400-Plus Pairs of Gig Gloves to Israel to Help War Efforts

Gig Gear has announced it has donated approximately 450 pairs of its flagship Gig Gloves work gloves to Israel. Initially developed for AV installers and…

November 15, 2023

Kolstein Celebrates Annual Samuel J. Kolstein Memorial Award Winner

Kolstein Music’s President Manny Alvarez continued the New York-based string shop’s annual tradition of donating a double bass instrument to the…

October 29, 2023

Alpha Music Kicks Off Holiday Food Drive

Alpha Music, a 40-year-old combo music retailer based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, will kick off its holiday food drive on November 1 to benefit the Food Bank…

October 15, 2023

PMC Announces NAMM Foundation Support for Future Programming

The Percussion Marketing Council (PMC) has announced that this year’s NAMM grant will help the PMC maintain established Experience Drumming! community grants,…

October 06, 2023

Hohner Partners with American Cancer Society

Throughout the month of October, which is also Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Hohner has partnered with the American Cancer Society to support breast cancer…

September 11, 2023

Musician Ben Folds Teams with Casio on ‘Keys for Kids’ Initiative

On August 25, singer-songwriter Ben Folds lead fundraising event Keys for Kids — his initiative which provides school-age kids with access to keyboards and…

July 28, 2023

NAMM’s Museum of Making Music Hosts Benefit Concert with Graham Nash

On July 18, NAMM’s Museum of Making Music welcomed patrons to a sold-out “Concert for a Cause” benefit event that featured Grammy award-winning artist…