New Grants from National String Project Consortium

 

PRESS  RELEASE 

APPLICATIONS  FOR  NEW  STRING  PROJECT SITES: 

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

Deadline November 16, 2007

The National String Project Consortium (NSPC) is now accepting applications to start new String Project sites at universities in order to address the string teacher shortage. The deadline for this round of applications is November 16, 2007. Each new String Project will receive $10,000 from grants to start their program in the first year.

The National String Project Consortium is a coalition of String Project sites based at colleges and universities across the United States. The NSPC is dedicated to increasing the number of children playing stringed instruments, and addressing the critical shortage of string teachers in the U.S.

The NSPC now consists of 30 String Projects at universities throughout the United States. These programs are training about 250 string teachers each year. Recent grants from NAMM, the D’Addario Foundation, and the Music Lives Foundation have enabled new String Projects to be created at Baylor University, Virginia Tech, University of New Hampshire, Central Washington University and James Madison University. For more information and the application form, go to the website at http://www.stringprojects.org or contact Robert Jesselson at 803-777-2033 or RJesselson@Mozart.sc.edu 


Dr. Robert Jesselson

Executive Director, NSPC
National String Project Consortium

Carolina Distinguished Professor 
University of South Carolina
803-777-2033

Visit the NSPC Homepage at:
       http://www.stringprojects.org/

 

 

 

 

 

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