NOMRF will send a signed copy of the founder's family piano as a thank you for donating $48.29 for 8/29. The New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund, Inc., a grass roots certified 501c(3) founded by and for displaced musicians, is still sending grants to displaced New Orleans musicians thanks to the generousity of individuals around the world.
The New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund, Inc. accepts VISA, American Express, Discover and MasterCard (above) and Paypal Donations (here):
We are also accepting checks mailed to NOMRF, 102 W. Washington St., Unit 2, Bloomington, IL 61701. (We spend about half of our time in New Orleans but this is where NOMRF founders ended up after their evacuation.)
Donations to the 501(c)3 Certified Fund are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Conn-Selmer, one of the largest band instrument distributors in the USA has offered to give us discounted prices that are below wholesale on all instruments purchased by NOMRF. This generous offer will help us make your cash donations stretch as far as possible.
DONATE TIME
Donating money isn't the only way to contribute. Here are some ways that you could donate your time. If you work for a radio station, feel free to mention the NOMRF.org web address to your listeners. If you are a musician or if you own a musical venue, feel free to organize your own benefit concert to get donations and to raise awareness for NOMRF.org. If you have access to a bulletin board at your work or school, print out our flyer and stick it on the bulletin board (Click here for flyer). Email your local newspaper and ask them to include NOMRF.org in their list of ways to help those effected by hurricane Katrina. Post a link for NOMRF on your web site or in online message boards. Put a NOMRF collection box by the cash register in your store. Thank you in advance for any efforts you make for this charity.
DONATE YOUR TALENT
Established musicians who are doing well can donate the proceeds from an iTunes song or submit a song for us to put on a compilation CD or into our PodCasts to help other New Orleans musicians. We are also collecting interviews from New Orleans musicians for our podcasts.
DONATE GEAR
A musician needs the tools of the trade to make a living and many musicians in New Orleans are returning to damaged or destroyed instruments. If you have a musical instrument that you don't play anymore, we will find it a good home in the hands of a New Orleans based musician that lost their instrument in the flooding. We are seeing a need for all types of instruments, but electronic gear (like microphones and amplifiers) are being requested in the highest numbers. This is because many musicians took their primary instruments, but left their electronic accessories (like their microphones, mixers and amplifiers).
REFUND AND PRIVACY POLICY
See NOMRF's Refund and Privacy Policies by clicking here: refund.
VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU'S
Here's our list of thank-you's. It's not nearly long enough, considering all of the generous individuals New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund wouldn't exist without.
Thank you to Tallgrass Restaurant, the Norton Building Series, Amos Lee, REM, Dr. John, Blink of an Eye Productions, Carrolton Station, Bacco, Howard Prager, Jo Hughes, Joe Topping, Jesus H. Christ and the 4 Hornsmen of the Apocolypse, A. Renee, Greg Eveline, Abita, Dave and Molly Wilson, WGLT, Wayne at Headstrong Amps, the Black Orchid's, deco venue at The Black Orchid. Other sponsors include: Jam Productions; Second City; Kelly's Bakery and Cafe; Signs Direct, and Hotel Allegro and artist Herb Eaton.
Some of those who have helped get NOMRF off the ground include: Tom and Michelle Dalton (signsdirect.com); Select Screen Prints; and Sila Accounting in Normal, IL.
Thanks for everyone out on the road looking after us: Ray, Lorraine and Mark; Beauty Skool Dropout in Chicago; Chris and Dan of Karoshi; and Bruno Johnson and Adrienne Pierluissi, Ronin and Porter at Bruno's Palm Tavern, Milwaukee; The Mansion House and Island Co-Housing in Martha's Vineyard; Ali Cimino in Marblehead.
As evacuees from Mid-City to Illinois, NOMRF founders Jeff and Karen Beninato would like to thank the Fund's board members for helping with event planning and instrument distribution in New Orleans.
We have had help from day one from John Stirrat (Wilco); John Thomas Griffith (Cowboy Mouth), Sue Ford (Manwitch) and Ricky Castrillo (Dreamland); and Robin Chablessw (Shy Anne Social Club Productions).
Also thanks for the great generousity of the Redfish Grill, Midtown Rentals, Paragon Rentals, Nathan Gavzer and Brian at Woodfield Suites, Conn-Selmer Instruments; individual donors of musical instruments; Vintage Vinyl; the New Orleans Musicians Appeal Fund, based in England; Coalition of Independent Music Stores; Wilco; CD Central; Euclid Records; Cowboy Mouth and John Griffith; Chicago's John Cook and Theodore and Connie Rigas; Seattle's Garth Skovgard; Maryland's Joe Atkins, Anne McCabe, James Briley, James Pettijohn, Loren Pettijohn and Chris Fox; Bob and Karen Malone of L.A. . . .
Thank you to Wilco for the big benefit show ...and a big heart felt "thank you" to EVERYONE that has made a cash donation or musical instrument donation to this charitable fund!
