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$20,000 in Music Scholarships Brings our Grand Total to $207,000 and 78 Scholarships - $26,000 in 2026
On Saturday July 19, 2025 we awarded another $20,000 in music scholarships bringing our grand total to $207,000 and 78music scholarships.
Thanks to all the people who have donated time, talent & money to make these scholarships possible. “More Music Means a Better World for All of Us”.
Our scholarship winners are more than just excellent musicians. They are “Music Ambassadors” who are building the invisible roads & bridges that connect our hearts & souls via music. Let’s work together to give everyone who applies in 2026 a scholarship.
$10,000 Grand Scholarship in Honor of Michael Pantaleo goes to Desmond Mulready from Kingston NY.
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The 2025 SONG WRITING CONTEST WINNERS
THE 1ST PLACE WINNER OF $1,000
Andrew Pauls for New Pledge
Shavon Lloyd, Composer, Conductor, Baritone, Music Educator and Grand Scholarship winner.
In the Spotlight: Barry Adelman & the Origin Story of Music for Humanity
After twenty years and $187,000 in Music Scholarships, and thanks to the support of thousands of musicians and music lovers, Music for Humanity’s Co-Founder and “chief volunteer” Barry Adelman, was featured on the cover of Spotlyts Magazine an international publication, with a detailed interview inside. See the introduction video from Spotlyts on YouTube now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj_vVjYjQFc.
Click here to read the entire interview.
Or click play below the image to listen to an accurate and enthusiastic AI generated podcast about the interview.
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Music for Humanity was the 2025 "hometown charity" for the Subaru Share the Love Event
Subaru of America and Johnstons Subaru gave MFH a $22,450 donation, the largest donation we’ve ever received. In the photo above are left to right: Charles Mokotoff, MFH Board Member, Kate Brannan, WALL Radio DJ, Steve Jardine, owner of Johnstons Subaru and Johnstons Toyota, Sharon Burton Mansueto, MFH Board Member, Christopher Lee, General Manager of Johnstons Subaru, and Barry Adelman, MFH Executive Director and Board Member.
Third Annual Music Teacher Appreciation Award Winner Announced
Pictured above is Marissa Gerin the winner of the Third Annual Music Teacher Appreciation Award, a $1000 Grant. Marissa teaches at the St. Cloud Elementary School in West Orange NJ. Music teachers are critical to the future of humanity. We hope to increase this award in 2025. See if you qualify at this link: https://musicforhumanity.org/
We’ll begin accepting applications in spring 2025 and select the Fourth Annual Winner by random in the fall.
If you are a part-time or full-time music teacher at an accredited institution (grammar school thru college) you are eligible to apply for the grant in 2025. Please apply here.
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Winner of the $8,000 Classical Guitar
The winner of the $8,000 classical guitar is Nick Telgheder.
Fifth Annual School Instrument Program
On Friday, June 12, 2026, Music for Humanity bought $4,000 in new
instruments for the Ellenville School District. We’ve already bought new instruments for the following school districts: Middletown, Beacon, Valley Central, Goshen, Chester, Pine Bush and now Ellenville. We also plan to buy another $4,000 of instruments for the Port Jervis School District soon. that will bring our total to almost $40,000 in new instruments.
In the photo below, are Barry Adelman, Executive Director of MFH and
Laurie Worden, Director of Music for the Ellenville School District. As
per Laurie’s request we purchased a tuba and saxophone. Special thanks
to Alto Music in Middletown, NY for securing the instruments at very competitive prices. We plan. to buy another $4,000 of new instruments for the Port Jervis School District soon. Thanks to everyone who has supported our mission, which is to spread more music, because “More Music Means a Better World for All of Us.”
If you’d like to make a donation of at least $4,000 go to a specific school district, in honor of someone, please contact us.
Please click the green icon to make a tax-deductible donation now… it takes less than 1 minute. Thanks for your support!
Music is an International Language that Transcends All Boundaries and Builds the Invisible Roads & Bridges that Connect Our Hearts & Souls.
More music means more connections and more connections means a better world for all of us. Music for Humanity’s mission is to spread more music throughout the world by “planting” music seeds. Locally we do that by presenting the monthly Music for Humanity Free Performance Night. Nationally and globally we do it by offering scholarships to young aspiring musicians who need financial help to
continue their formal education, as a music major, at any accredited college or university in the United States. Those musicians become, in essence, ambassadors for Music for Humanity. Our current mission is offering music education scholarships. We raise money for our scholarships through Concerts, Free Performance Nights and Tax-Deductible Donations.
Our Mission is to Spread More Music by Offering Music Education Scholarships and Buying New Instruments for Local School Districts. We Raise Money For the Scholarships and Instruments Through Concerts, Free Performance Nights, Tax-Deductible Donations and an Annual Raffle.
The Story of Music for Humanity
In 2005, Co-Founder Barry Adelman heard a whisper like in the movie Field of Dreams.
This whisper didn’t say “Build it and he will come”. It simply said “Music for Humanity”.
Barry turned around to see who had said it, but no one was there. A few minutes later he heard it again. Still, no one was there.
Barry thought that maybe this whisper came because of some recent spiritual songs he had written; he knew he had to act on it. After a little research he discovered that someone had reserved the name “Music for Humanity” on the web, but there was no website.
A little more research led him to his future Co-Founder Kurt Irmiter who had reserved the name in 2001. Kurt also had an idea to use music to benefit Humanity.
To tap the power of the listener enjoying music and the musicians creating and performing music to benefit and improve the world. As soon as Barry contacted Kurt they struck a chord and teamed up to form MusicForHumanity.org.
After doing fund raisers for the Red Cross and for Big Brothers Big Sisters it dawned on them that Music itself was worthy of being supported. They realized that despite our political, religious, ethnic & financial differences, Music brought us together.
They began spreading more music with a monthly Free Performance Night and by giving music scholarships to young aspiring musicians. These scholarship recipients became “Music Ambassadors” and helped spread more music.
Music builds the invisible roads & bridges to connect our hearts, our souls. In today’s divisive world we need those connections more than ever. More Music means more connections, which means a better world for all of us. Help us spread more music throughout the world.
To volunteer, email info@MusicForHumanity.org & put “Volunteer” in the subject line. You can make a tax-deductible donation at the links provided on this site or send a check to Music for Humanity, PO Box 359, Chester, NY 10918. Thanks for your generosity!!
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