Grant Request Hear Your Song, Inc.
Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form
Organization Name: Hear Your Song, Inc.
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Mailing Address: 140 East 56th Street #11A
City: New York
State: NY
Postal Code: 10022
Main Phone: 646-584-0198
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Organization Website: www.hearyoursong.org
Employer ID Number: 85-3483842
Organization Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Proposal Information
Today’s Date: March 19, 2022
Requested Amount: $10,000
Project Title: General Operating Support
Project Description:
Hear Your Song empowers children and teens with serious illnesses and complex health needs to make their voices heard through collaborative songwriting.
Hear Your Song has now supported 200+ children ages 6-18 in 27 states in writing their own songs. At the same time, we’ve grown six undergraduate-led, campus-based chapters, engaged hundreds of volunteer musicians around the globe, and built over a dozen partnerships with children’s hospitals, specialized schools/camps, and other nonprofits, including the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, Montefiore Medical Center, Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital, Double H Ranch Camp, MitoAction, The ELM Project, and the Hang Tough Foundation. We focus our outreach to new communities on populations often overlooked in pediatric music programming, especially kids with diagnoses that predominantly impact communities of color.
We Create: In live, collaborative songwriting sessions, Hear Your Song volunteers work with kids ages 6-18 to guide them through the process of writing their own song lyrics. Using the kid songwriter’s ideas for musical style, melody, instrumentation, and tempo, volunteer composers and musicians then set those words to music and record the song to be heard, celebrated, and shared.
We Mentor: Hear Your Song trains and mentors undergraduate leaders who volunteer directly with children experiencing serious illness through our campus-based chapters. In order to best meet the needs of every kid as well as the volunteers who serve them, we are committed to providing all volunteers who lead songwriting sessions with trauma-informed care training.
We Amplify: Hear Your Song strives to shift public perceptions of kids experiencing serious illnesses by building a digital community within which children’s own words and musical ideas can demonstrate the fullness of their identity and the boundlessness of their creativity. We share lyric videos of each completed song, clips of kids talking about their songwriting experience, and messages from volunteer collaborators celebrating each child’s musical vision. Please visit our website, YouTube channel, or Instagram to hear a sample of the extraordinary songs that kids have written with us.
Total Project Budget: $135,000
Other Funding
Sources For The Project (Committed & Potential): GEICO Philanthropic Foundation, The Greater Sum Foundation, Zegar Family Foundation, Whole Foods Community Giving, McGinnity Family Foundation, Les Paul Foundation, Theresa Foundation
Project Duration: To support the 2022-2023 school year
Geographical Area Served: National
Age Group To Be Served: 6-18
Contact Information
Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Mr.
Contact First Name: Dan
Contact Last Name: Rubins
Contact Title: Executive Director & Co-Founder
Contact Phone: 646-584-0198
Contact Email: dan@hearyoursong.org