BMI Foundation

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The BMI Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organization founded in 1985 by executives of Broadcast Music Incorporated for the purpose of "encouraging the creation, performance and study of music through awards, scholarships, internships, grants, and commissions." ^[1] Additionally, the Foundation makes grants annually to other not-for-profit musical organizations. The organization is currently headed by Deirdre Chadwick who serves as the President ^[2] and an elected Board of Directors.

Awards programs include:

• BMI Student Composer Awards for Classical Compositions ^[3]
• Peermusic Latin Scholarships ^[4]
• Carlos Surinach Awards and Commissions ^[5]
• Woody Guthrie Fellowships ^[6]
• Women's Music Commission ^[7]
• John Lennon Scholarships ^[8]
• Milton Adolphus award ^[9]
• Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize ^[10]
• Jerry Harrington Musical Theater Award ^[11]
• Jerry Bock Musical Theater Award ^[12]
• Robert B. Sherman Scholarship ^[13]
• David N. Baker Jazz Composition Scholarship, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music ^[14]

References

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