The Children's Music Foundation, Inc. Newsletter

The Children's Music Foundation Newsletter

April 2011

The Children's Music Foundation is fortunate to have Dr. Suvi Saarikallio as its newest member of the First Note team!

Dr. Saarikallio works as a Finnish Academy Research Fellow at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research at the Department of Music, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Saarikallio's research focuses on the psychosocial aspects of musical behavior, including mood and emotion, personality, development, and well-being. Dr. Saarikallio is an internationally acknowledged expert particularly in research on music as a means for emotional self-regulation. She won the ESCOM Young Researcher Award (2006), has actively published articles in international peer-reviewed journals, given invited lectures at international seminars, and is currently leading a 5-year research project on "Music-related emotional competence and adolescent mental health".After receiving her doctorate (2007) Saarikallio worked at the Department of Music at University of Jyväskylä as an assistant professor for an international master's degree programme, Music, mind and technology (2007-2010), and currently actively gives lectures at the department particularly on research methods and music psychology.

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CMF Pursues PRI as Funding Vehicle

A limited liability company (Music Finance Partners I, LLC) has been formed for the sole and exclusive purpose MFP Logo

of raising funds from accredited investors (the "Investment Proceeds"). The Investment Proceeds will then be loaned by the Music Finance Partners I, LLC (the "LLC") to CMF for funding the First Note program evidenced by a loan agreement, promissory note and security agreement. CMFhas positioned First Note to move from the beta stage to launching the pilot of the full 30-lesson program. The funds raised through the LLC are mission critical in making this progression a reality.

The LLC and the underlying opportunity for investors translate into the greatest form of socially responsible investing because bottom-line profits end up further fueling the efforts of the non-profit organization that is serving the children of our communities. For individuals and foundations that are passionate about the First Note mission, the LLC provides an intentional option for managing resources in an effort to accomplish more wth less.

CMF Thank you Mills Music!

Thanks to Mike Mills and Mills Music for joining our set desi Mills Music Logo gn team and assisting CMF with a very important part of our program. In order to give our kids an authentic experience of actually being inside a music store, the Mills team will develop the "look and feel" of the First Note Music Store (including providing the instruments) where each of the lessons will "appear" to take place. Thanks Mike!

"State funding for arts in jeopardy"

"...The proposed cuts come as no surprise to artists and arts advocates, who have seen state support for art decline nationwide during the economic downturn..."

This is a headline and portion of an article that appeared recently in the Seattle Times, but it could have just as easily appeared in nearly any state paper as the country grapples with declining revenues while trying balance their budgets.

The First Note Music curriculum is timely as it provides a low-cost option for many schools to provide music in their daily class schedule for our youngest students.

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