March 16, 2024 I Philanthropy
Martin Guitar Foundation Announces 2023 Grants
The Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation has announced that it awarded $485,500 in grants to more than 85 nonprofit organizations in 2023, creating opportunities for the communities in which their employees live in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, and throughout the Lehigh Valley, as well as acoustical music organizations nationally.
These grants support the foundation’s focus areas: performance, participation and education in acoustic steel-string guitar music; community activity in the Nazareth region; study and preservation of America’s acoustic guitar heritage; arts education programs emphasizing acoustic guitar; educational institutions in the Lehigh Valley; promotion of arts and culture, mainly in the Lehigh Valley; help for the poor, hungry, sick, and homeless in the Lehigh Valley; and environmental action related to guitar-making materials and processes.
Grants ranging from $1,000 to $35,000 were awarded to local and national programs. Lehigh Valley and regional organizations receiving foundation support in 2023 were: Allentown Art Museum; Allentown Rescue Mission; Allentown Symphony Association; ArtsQuest; E.S.T.; Bethlehem Emergency Sheltering; Bradbury-Sullivan LGBTQ Community Center; Burn Prevention Network; Casey Doolin Foundation; Family Connection of Easton; Family Promise of the Lehigh Valley; Fox Chase Cancer Center; Godfrey Daniels; Greater Easton Development Partnership; Greater Valley YMCA-Nazareth Branch; Hispanic Center Lehigh Valley; Historic Bethlehem Museums and Sites; IceHouse Performing Arts Center; Lehigh Gap Nature Center; Lehigh Valley Active Life; Lehigh Valley Zoological Society; Lifepath; Miller-Keystone Blood Center; Moravian University; Moravian Music Foundation; Nazareth Area Food Bank; Nazareth Economic Development Commission; Nazareth Center for the Arts and more.
The foundation also made grants to national organizations with a strong arts presence and programs in acoustic guitar education and research. The foundation will receive proposals for 2024 grants from June 1 to August 31, 2024.
