By: WAAM’s Music Impact Research Team In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we looked to WAAM’s Music Impact Research Center, our trusted repository of leading, timely, and actionable research on how music touches our lives and has the power to combat many of the challenges we face in today’s world, to highlight some of the ways that music can support mental health. Through our research, we found...
Check out this amazing drumming performance from our WAAMily students at the Education Through Music 2023 gala last week. Featuring over 80 students from partner schools all over NYC, it was an inspiring and crucial reminder about the critical importance of music education. WAAM is proud to support Education Through Music and the profound impact high quality music education can have both inside and outside the classroom. ...
Did you know? Music can trigger strong memories from the past as well as prove strong emotion from those earlier experiences. Music reduces the stress hormone cortisol and increases the secretion of oxytocin, thereby positively impacting childbirth, as well as infant-parental bonding, trust and romantic attachment. Playing music or singing along impacts procedural memory, which is the unconscious ability to remember a behavior without explicitly thinking about it. Find more...
Today, we'd like to give a special shout out to Education Through Music for all that it's achieved in the past year. WAAM is proud to work with organizations like ETM that harness the power of music to make meaningful impact. ...
More than 45 music nonprofits have benefited from WAAM’s partnership program with Sweetwater; finding great value, expert knowledge, technology support, and instruments at competitive prices through a dedicated sales engineer. We encourage all music nonprofits to please visit our partnership page to get started! Sweetwater’s GearFest is online starting tomorrow, June 24-25, which is their annual celebration of gear and musicians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQAKpmK3iTE ...
Check out Hip Hop Public Health’s Community Immunity toolkit which aims to spread confidence and knowledge about the vaccine! https://youtu.be/DuB9xtldCXM ...
WAAM is thrilled to announce our Hello Insight partnership! We are joining together to provide music nonprofits with an important instrument to measure and demonstrate program impact. Hello Insight's platform enhances the ability to evaluate the critical components of Social Emotional Learning (SEL). We invite all music nonprofits to engage with Hello Insight and learn how your peers are elevating the narrative about the Power of...
Power of Music - Episode 6 is Available for Streaming Now! Tune in as we discuss the essential role of music in mental health and social emotional learning (SEL) with Dr. Kim Sabo Flores, Founder of Hello Insight and Dr. Chad Bernstein, Founder and CEO of Guitars Over Guns! https://youtu.be/Re_s5m1XTAE ...
Dr. Chad Bernstein Co-Founder/CEO of Guitars Over Guns, is a leader in incorporating mental health and research-based initiatives into after school music programs. In 2015, Chad was honored as a CNN Hero for his work, and has since been featured by the Steve Harvey Show and People Magazine. Most recently, Chad was named an inaugural recipient of The Elevate Prize, selected from among thousands of global changemakers....
We Are All Music Foundation grantee Education Through Music partners with under-resourced schools to provide music as a core subject for all children, and utilizes music education as a catalyst to improve academic achievement, motivate for school attendance and build self-confidence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vabwQOfKFDY ...
