May 2013 E-Blast MFE Celebrates Giving Over $70,000 in Grants! On Friday, May 3, MFE, celebrated the awarding of over $70,000 in grants to schools and community arts groups in Binns Park in downtown Lancaster. Representatives of the schools and arts organizations showed up to accept their “Big Checks” and to enjoy the music of [...]

MFE April eNews   MFEMFE Awards Over $70,000 in Grants! Our grant committee met in mid March to award $70,773 in grants to 38 different schools and community arts groups in Lancaster County. This represents our largest award amount for this annual program. The majority of these funds will be used to purchase and repair [...]

March 2013 E-Blast   March is Music in Our Schools Month! An important part of what MFE does is to advocate for the importance of music in our schools. This advocacy role has become increasingly important in this difficult economic environment of decreased educational funding. This, despite the substantial and growing evidence of music’s positive [...]

February 2013 E-Blast MFE Announces 2013 “MFE Scholars” We are pleased to announce Emma Noble and Israel Gonzales as 2013 MFE Scholars. Both are Millersville University Music Education majors, who aspire to become music teachers. In exchange for their $2,500 scholarship, they are required to work in an SDOL school (Buchanan Elementary) at the direction [...]

Music’s Value as an Educational Tool Printed in February 10, 2013 edition of The Sunday News, Lancaster, PA   If you have been following the topic of education reform in America, these terms and concepts are familiar: “No Child Left Behind”, “Race to the Top”, teachers’ unions, charter schools, teacher pay and standardized testing. All [...]

MFE in the News January 2013   “MFE in the Schools” Expanding Its Reach We are pleased to announce an expansion of our SDOL programming with the addition of Kate Umble as a part-time music instructor/mentor for brass instruments beginning this month. Kate will join Mike Jamanis (strings) and Ryan Kauffman (reeds) as they work at the [...]

MFE in the News December 2012 MFE and “The Extraordinary Give” We would like to thank everyone who donated to MFE through the November 30 Extraordinary Give program sponsored by the Lancaster County Community Foundation. While final giving totals are still being determined, MFE was able to net over $5,000 as a result of your [...]

MFE in the News November 2012 MFE Awards $31,000 Grant to JP McCaskey HS to Complete State-of-the-Art Music Lab. MFE recently provided McCaskey HS with a $31,000 grant to complete the installation of 24 computers to complete a state-of-the-art music lab. This is our second of two grants provided for this project. In 2011, we provided $32,000 to [...]

MFE in the News October 2012 MFE in Schools Resumes and Expands Reach!   With the start of the school year, “MFE in the Schools” has cranked back up for our second full year. This program is designed to address the “mentoring/instructional gap” in school music programs by placing seasoned, professional musicians in the schools to work alongside [...]

Camp MFE Brings It! By Steve Carlson According to marketing guru, Seth Godin, anyone can get their friends to go to their gig, buy the CD and tell them they’re great. In order to really pump it up, however, creatives need to bring something special to the table. They need folks to be blown away [...]