JAZZ FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC
NEW YORK, New York
The Jazz Foundation of America (JFA) is committed to providing jazz and blues musicians with financial, medical, housing, and legal assistance as well as performance opportunities, with a special focus on the elderly and veterans who have paid their dues and find themselves in crisis due to illness, age and/or circumstance. JFA achieves its mission through compassionate and personalized social work care that restores dignity and hope to their clients. JFA is saving jazz and blues “one musician at a time.”
For 25 years, the Jazz Foundation of America (JFA) has been the only national organization dedicated to saving the homes and lives of elder jazz and blues musicians in crisis – musicians who have made our world richer through their music. JFA has grown to support over 6,000 cases a year with emergency assistance and work opportunities. Every day, the JFA helps clients in need who often have nowhere else to turn. The Emergency Assistance program keeps the electricity on, the rent or ... Czytaj dalej
