The Renewal Fund Campaign
All original images by René Huemer
What will be RENEWED this year through your participation in JEN?
Spring signals turned corners. It is a time to bust brackets, launch festivals, and bestow awards; a period for end-of-school performance stress, announcing new educational beginnings, or ending programs of study. For the Jazz Education Network, spring marks our moment for RENEWAL – acknowledging the successes of our past while gathering forward momentum to continue the education and impact of the Black American and global jazz music traditions. It is our drive to make new this artform over and over again.
The setting for what is to come holds new challenges and opportunities for making music moving forward. A COVID-endemic world has taught us how to pivot and digitize. The continued movements for social justice and culturally inclusive equity deepen our understanding and connection to the music. An exposed fragility in our performance ecosystem calls for novel ways to connect audiences, where resilience goes beyond just restoration. JEN turns the corner of this spring into a new landscape for our work and mission.
As a nonprofit arts organization, this mission is fully realized through the contributions of you: our members, student chapters, sponsors, and donors. Your volunteered time brings the annual conference to life. Your advocacy impacts year-round programming and cultural discussions. Your research broadens perceptions and understanding in our field. Your financial donations – in any amount! – collectively ensures that JEN is properly staffed and resourced, benefitting generation after generation to the legacy of jazz education while being enabled to actively shape its future.
This spring, how will your RENEWED pledge of support be multiplied? We seek not only a goal of $30,000 to further the recovery of pandemic impacts but also 10,000 pledged volunteer hours to fully realize the JEN programming in our individual communities year-round.
What changes will you navigate? What corners will you turn?
What will be RENEWED this year through your participation in JEN?
HOW YOUR GIFT MAKES AN IMPACT
$100 – A gift of $100 can support a full JEN membership for an aspiring artist educator to join the network of those more established in the field.
$250 – Scholarships Awards: A gift of $250 can help support a student scholarship award recipient to attend the next JEN Conference.
$500 – JAZZ2U Grants/Community Engagement: Assist in funding a speaker, clinician, or performer, at any event that will bring jazz to new or existing audiences via schools, community centers, performances or informances by quality performers and advanced educators. This program impacts thousands of students across the country.
$1000 – Digital programming: Jazz Education Network Webinars has allowed our artist educator network to stay active, keeping all of us connected with access to quality online programs that are relevant during these challenging times. A gift of $1000 will help cover operational costs to continue bringing digital programs to the jazz community.
$1500 – Program Support: A gift of $1500 can fund a student award recipient a full-ride scholarship to attend and participate in the annual JEN conference.
$2500 – Program Support: A gift of $2500 can help us keep our dedicated team who has worked over the past year to keep Jazz Education Network programs and daily operations afloat.
GOAL
$30,000 in Donations
JUNE 30, 2022
GOAL
10,000 Pledged Volunteer Hours
Please click below to give to the
RENEWAL FUND
by JUNE 30
or mail your gift to the following address:
Jazz Education Network
1440 W Taylor St #1135
Chicago, ILÂ 60607
Memo: RENEWAL FUND
Please click below to donate your time.
The Jazz Education Network is a 501(c)3 non-profit.
EIN 26-2880358
To make a gift via a donor-advised fund or stock, please contact
Sharon Burch, Managing Director at
sharon.burch@jazzednet.org
or call 1-312-781-6299.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR DONATION!
Thank you to the following people for contributing to the Resilience Fund Campaign.
Network For Good (Faceboook Donations)
Mary Jo Papich
Daniel Flores
Jamey Aebersold
Jeff Brennan
Lonnie Davis
Lynn Reeder
Sylvia Johnson
Dustin Rohrer
Ayn Inserto
MARK INGRAM
Todd Stoll
Sonya Robinson
Sparky Koerner
Dee Daniels
Rhapsody Snyder
Victor López
Bruce Gertz
Michael Shirtz
Christopher Walker
Win Hinkle
Jose Antonio Diaz
Sharon Burch
Mark Chapman
Boots Maleson
James Holden, Jr
Rosana Eckert
Roxy Coss
Anonymous
Joseph Jennings
Ashley Shabankareh
Peter Barenbregge
Lois Corrin
Brenda
Scott Nurmi
Julian Gerstin
Gretchen Brandt
Catherine Brubeck
David Kauffman
Karen and Stephane Saux
John Stafford
Thomas Keithly
Paul Kelly
molly Berkemeier
Neil Wetzel
Kathleen Hollingsworth
Leon Prause
Jim Anderson
Ralph Meyer
Jim Ketch
David Fabilli
Ian Rashkin
Kerry Kennard
Julie Myers & Robert Terrell
Natalie Wilson
Dave Ness
Anonymous
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We invite you to join the folks listed above by donating today!

The Jazz Education Network is dedicated to building the jazz arts community by
advancing education, promoting performance, and developing new audiences.
JEN is committed to representing and cultivating diversity, equity, and inclusion in all areas of its operation including staff, board members, volunteers, presenters, clinicians, performers and audiences.Â
This commitment is present in all programs and decision making.