The NAMM Foundation’s Music Research Grants seeks to increase public and private resources and focus on unique, non-duplicative research topics.
Donor Name: NAMM Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/06/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Funding Priorities
- Participatory Music Making. High-quality, hands-on music-training and music-making that creates lifelong music makers.
- Career Mobility. Career Mobility is workforce development for groups of people typically underrepresented in the music industry. The music industry is defined as any business, professsion, or trade dedicated to live music creation. Some examples include: Music production, teaching, performing, music technology, live entertainment, touring, entrepreneurship, retail, manufacturing, supply chain, publishing, instrument making, instrument repair, small enterprise, etc.
Funding Information
Grants from The NAMM Foundation can range between $5,000-$25,000, depending on the size and scope of the request.
Eligibility Requirements
- Research that improves practices and increases public/private resources for music education and workforce development in the US
- Principal investigator must have a demonstratable research track record. They welcome applications from early-career researchers and emerging investigators pursuing innovative ideas in music research.
- Does not duplicate existing research
- Must have a well-developed conceptual framework and research design
- Analytical models must be well-specified and research questions and hypotheses (where applicable) must be clearly stated
- Government agencies are not eligible
- Non-US organizations are not eligible.
For more information, visit NAMM Foundation.