Grants for new String Projects

$10,000 first year; up to $25,000 over five years

Application Deadline: April 16, 2007

The National String Project Consortium (NSPC) is a coalition of String Projects based at colleges and universities across the United States. These sites are working to increase the number of children playing stringed instruments, and addressing the critical shortage of string teachers in the US. There are currently 25 sites in the NSPC. Grants from this program will help to incubate new String Projects.

For more information and the application form see the website at:

http://www.stringprojects.org/ For questions, contact Robert Jesselson at RJesselson@Mozart.sc.edu or 803-777-2033.

Please join us for NSPC sessions at the ASTA Conference in Detroit:

Wednesday March 8: 9:45 am - “The New NSPC”

Saturday March 10: 3:45 pm - “String Project Successes: Sites Share Their Stories and Ideas”

Since its inception in 1999, the NSPC has been responsible for the stringed instrument education of well over 7,000 children of public school age in the 25 sites. It has assisted with the education of over 200 new teachers public school teachers in the past five years. The NSPC has received grants totaling about $2.2 million. The ultimate goal of the NSPC is for every state to have at least one such program to educate teachers, and that fully staffed string and orchestra programs will exist in all public schools. The NSPC works in partnership with ASTA.

Dr. Robert Jesselson

Professor of Cello

University of South Carolina

803-777-2033

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