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ACTIVISM
The Everyone Orchestra is committed to supporting non-profit organizations
in the communities where we perform through awareness and fund-raising.
Our events are produced as sustainably as is feasible and you'll
always find a diverse mix of musical and activist communities represented.
Some of the organizations we have worked with include:
Conscious Alliance
www.consciousalliance.org
Conscious Alliance organizes food drives nationally at concerts, music festivals, and sporting events to benefit local food pantries and impoverished Indian Reservations across the United States. EO is collaborating with Conscious Alliance for its’ Fall 2006 Northeast tour, where concert goers can exchange 10 items of non-perishable food for a tour poster by Robert Marx.
Rock the Earth
www.rocktheearth.org
Rock the Earth works closely with the music industry and its fans bringing about positive and beneficial environmental consequences on behalf of members of the music industry through the means of active litigation and negotiation. EO founder/conductor Matt Butler is a member of the Rock the Earth advisory board.
The Buckeye Forest Council
www.buckeyeforestcouncil.org
" Thank you once again for promoting and raising money for
Buckeye Forest Council's work. We are putting the money to our Dysart
Woods and Wayne National Forest Campaigns. Much of it will go to
legal fees needed to fight a proposed underground coal mining project,
which could destroy Dysart Woods, one of Ohio's last old-growth
forests. Money will also go to our efforts to stop two timber sales
on the Wayne National Forest. These timber sales were actually stopped
eight years ago and now the Forest Service is attempting push them
through again. These timber sales are also significant because there
has been no logging on the Wayne since they were stopped."
-- Susan Heitker, Buckeye Forest Council
The Sierra Club
www.sierraclub.org
The Everyone Orchestra was pleased to collaborate with the New Orleans
chapter of the Sierra Club in support of their programs, meetings
and outings.
Make a Wish Foundation
www.makeawishfoundation.org
Make a Wish Foundation grants the wishes of children with life-threatening
medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength,
and joy.
The Pangaea Project
www.pangaeaproject.org
By engaging teenagers from underserved neighborhoods in local and international service-learning projects, The Pangaea Project promotes the development of leadership skills, increases global awareness, and fosters a commitment to work towards social change, profoundly transforming both the participants and their communities.
"The Everyone Orchestra produced two benefits for the Pangaea
Project in early May that were absolutely wonderful and divine.
The Pangaea Project is a Portland-based leadership development program
engaging youth from low-income families in creating solutions to
social and environmental issues that confront their communities
through local and international service-projects that share a common
theme. I feel so blessed that I was able to offer my humble creativity
with such phenomenally talented artists and help a good cause all
at the same time. I was blown away by the talent, humor, love, and
brilliantly orchestrated improvisation coming together in what truly
can be described as magic."
--Julia Butterfly Hill
Headcount
www.headcount.org
A portion of proceeds from our September '04 show at 12 Galaxies
in San Franciso benefited Headcount and their voter registration
campaigns.
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