Music education inspires youth to develop as positive contributing members of our neighborhoods. Through a selective grant process, Give A Note Foundation (GAN) invests in student potential through K-12 music education programs across the US.

Give A Note Foundation’s Music Education Innovator Award is granted to school music programs led by creative music educators utilizing innovative and sustainable strategies in non-traditional or traditional K-12 music classes in America’s public schools that attract students not typically enrolled in music education courses, in efforts to increase access to music education through diversity in curriculum and approach. Awards are granted to schools with programs that have significant potential for utilizing $4,000 grants to build upon programmatic successes to date, in efforts to create lasting change in a school or district. Minimally intrusive reporting requirements are developed to allow for other schools and districts to learn from the resulting models, with associated music educators serving as Innovative Ambassadors to the field.

The Music Teacher Notes program offers financial support to music programs with an application process structured around the five core competencies of Social Emotional Learning (SEL): self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship management, and responsible decision making.