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Harmony Foundation continues to be proud of our mission and what we are able to accomplish with our dedicated donors, partners, staff and volunteers. Our successful efforts in support of the longevity of barbershop ring true.

Here are some recent highlights:

2020:

  • From January 1, 2020 to May 31, 2020 Harmony Foundation distributed over $330,000 to BHS HQ for Next Generation Barbershop, barbershop camps and workshops, virtual Harmony University digital platform, and other programs.

  • In the depths of the 2020 pandemic year, HFI raised nearly $100,000 for the Coronet Club and their Educational Outreach Program, 'Queen's College.'

  • HFI raised $460,000 for AIC Outreach in 2020, enabling their July and December concert experiences to be viewed by approx 150,000+ viewers around the world.

  • HFI adopted the Power of Harmony youth anti-recidivism program, aimed at getting music/singing/barbershop into local youth incarceration facilities, and increased preparations to implement the program so that local chapters can utilize it.

2021:

  • Harmony Foundation awarded scholarships for virtual Harmony University 2021.

  • Brigades received over 3 times more dollars from HFI in Spring 2021 than Spring 2020.

  • Under our New District Direct model, HFI distributed an INCREASE of nearly $108,000 more to Districts in 2021 than we did in 2020.

  • Power of Harmony has now raised nearly $100,000, and provided for multiple livestream events into youth incarceration facilities, utilizing such talent as professional a cappella ensemble, Naturally 7, as well as 2018 Quartet Champs, After Hours.

  • Power of Harmony recently received a grant from Josh Groban’s ‘Find Your Light’ Foundation.

  • HFI has already raised nearly $170,000 via the Miller AIC Outreach Challenge, continuing that campaign to try to raise at least $250,000 for the program to bring champ quartets to Chapters & Districts to help you reignite your chapters and communities, with a heavy focus on outreach to your communities.

  • The AIC Outreach Fund provided funding to bring After Hours to the ILL District convention and Storm Front to the LOL District convention. Both quartets connected with & coached youth ensembles at the conventions, and topped the events off with concerts to conclude the conventions.

  • The AIC Outreach Fund enabled 5 Champ Quartets & 5 Clinicians from across North America to travel to Southern California. On Oct 28 & 29, the groups visited 17 SoCal schools, introduced barbershop harmony to nearly 2,000 middle school and high school students, provided sheet music and learning tracks to the music educators, and prepped them all for the upcoming ‘Close Harmony’ festival in February, 2022.

  • HFI has provided nearly $65,000 in COVID Relief grants to Chapters & Districts since 2020, including a $30,000 COVID Relief grant to Sunshine District, a direct result of the pandemic interfering with this year’s LDJ/SUN/AIC event.

  • HFI is partnering with more and more Districts on what programs they want to focus on to benefit YOU, the barbershopper, in your local chapter, and what we can do (through District Direct) to raise money for your local/regional outreach programs/campaigns.

  • HFI plans to attend as many District Conventions and Events as possible in 2022, to meet you in person, and to be sure we are where you are, working to support your programs in your own home districts.