Miami Music Project Inc.

“The return is reviewed by the chair of the finance committee.”

“The board of trustees follows the standard practices for approval of compensation as suggested by the national council of nonprofits. It includes but is not limited to: - obtaining research and information to make a recommendation to the full board for the compensation of the director based on a review of comparability data (which may include written job offers for positions at similar organizations, salary and benefit compensation studies, telephone calls about similar positions at other organizations, information obtained from the irs form 990 filings of similar organizations - documentation: description of compensation and benefits, letter of engagement after the person is hired.”

“The board of trustees follows the standard practices for approval of compensation as suggested by the national council of nonprofits. It includes but is not limited to: - obtaining research and information to make a recommendation to the full board for the compensation of the director based on a review of comparability data (which may include written job offers for positions at similar organizations, salary and benefit compensation studies, telephone calls about similar positions at other organizations, information obtained from the irs form 990 filings of similar organizations - documentation: description of compensation and benefits, letter of engagement after the person is hired.”

“AS REQUESTED.”

“The program builds the transferable practical skills needed to improve academic motivation, classroom success and social preparedness, and creates new avenues of cultural awareness in the city's most vulnerable communities. Since joining our program, our students have shown 85%-89% improvement in skills that are fundamental to their cognitive development, such as confidence, concentration, self-motivation, determination, self- esteem, communication, time management and leadership. Parents have reported that their children do better in school and 44% of them attributed this improvement to their child's participation in miami music project programs. During the fy2014, miami music project increased program to serve students (ages 6-18) across community-based chapters located in 4 under-served and immigrant communities: little haiti, liberty city, little havana and doral; with distinct populations - predominantly haitian, african american and hispanic. Students trained after-school, 3 days and 6 hours per child weekly, receiving up to 200 hours of instruction annually per child. A team of professional musicians and highly skilled music educators - miami music project teaching artists, provided year-round instruction to all program participants. The program is inspired by one of the most exciting initiatives in educational reform today which hails from venezuela, where in 1974 economist and professional musician jose antonio abreu launched el sistema, a free program in classical music for young children from highly impoverished backgrounds. Since then, el sistema has led to improvements in the social conditions of millions of children worldwide becoming a new model for social change through music and a visionary global movement that transforms the lives of children and the communities in which they live. During the fy2014, we have been able to impact more lives than ever before. Among the highlights were: -the opening of a new chapter serving the children of the liberty city community, -creation of our leaders ensemble for most dedicated participants to provide cross-cultural experiences for the young musicians and, as a result, building community bridges, -provision opportunities for our students to represent the organization in a number of national and regional programs, including performances during 2014 east coast seminario (durham, north carolina), and a 3-concert tour by the miami music project string quintet to standing ovations during festival de saint-denis/ mtis in paris (france), -becoming a member of el sistema usa - a national alliance of the el sistema inspired programs, -for the sixth consecutive year, receiving funding from miami-dade county department of cultural affairs, -receiving our first grant from the state of florida, division of cultural affairs, -being awarded by the knight foundation to empower more children to play and appreciate classical music and achieve their full potential by expanding our orchestral programming to a third location, liberty city, -opening of the 3rd community chapter of the children orchestras program at charles r. Drew k-8 center in liberty city, -participation of miami music project students, among other from el sistema-inspired programs around the country, in the leadership forum for young musicians in los angeles, ca, -presenting a session during take a stand - international el sistema symposium, los angeles, ca. Session presented: taking the chance out of social transformation - a practical application of developmental psychology to el sistema-inspired programs, -holding our third annual and first 4-week-long summer music camp for 128 children. This fantastic work was all completed in a fiscally responsible fashion. Thanks to the generosity of our individual donors and with support from local, state and national institutions, we were able to fully fund all of the activities planned for the fy2014.”

“Program coordinaters 25,949 0 0 rentals & facilities 10,494 800 400 telephone & technology 1,528 4,836 0 program production 5,086 0 0 sheet music 4,929 0 0 program transportation 4,159 0 0 food 2,780 19 213 storage 2,322 0 0 merchant and bank fees 0 1,303 0 licenses & permits 0 770 0 miscellaneous 32 235 343”