Creating A Brighter Future Through Music Education

What is MIC (Music Impact Coalition)?

Founded in 2025 by Let Music Fill My World, the Music Impact Coalition (MIC) is a national alliance of more than 20 of the country’s leading music and arts foundations and organizations aligned around a shared mission: ensuring every student in America has access to high quality music and arts education, regardless of circumstance, location, or resources. By bringing together nonprofits, cultural institutions, educators, and research organizations, MIC works to advance equitable access to music education through collaboration, shared learning, and scalable solutions that strengthen public education and student wellbeing nationwide. 

The program will kick off in North Carolina and Ohio with this marking the start of a multi-state pilot initiative, funded through a $2 Million grant from Let Music Fill My World, that will test scalable models for equitable music education in public schools, with the goal of removing barriers to access and participation in music and arts education nationwide.

Members of the coalition include Adopt the Arts, Americans for the Arts, Artist For Artist®, Arts Education Partnership, Creating Abundance Collaborative, D’Addario Foundation, Give a Note Foundation, GRAMMY Museum®, Highmark Mann Center for the Performing Arts, The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, Let Music Fill My World, Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation, Music Will, The NAMM Foundation, National Association for Music Education, NORC, Save The Music, the Recording Academy®, and Tullman Family Office.