The Harvard Band Foundation

The Harvard Band Foundation (HBF) is a non-profit organization of marching band, jazz band, and Wind Ensemble alumni providing financial support and mentoring to the Harvard University Bands.  HBF has existed in its present incarnation for over twenty-five years and assists the Bands through annual grants from its endowment. The endowment is professionally invested by Crosby Advisors, a group within Fidelity that invests the personal wealth of Fidelity’s controlling shareholders, as well as funds from thirty-five New England-based charitable organizations.  Every year, HBF contributes up to 5% of the endowment to the Bands.  These contributions are made against specific grant requests, which are vetted through a rigorous process by the Foundation’s Grants Committee.

Over the last ten years, grants have totaled nearly $300,000 and have been used to:

• Purchase and repair instruments
• Underwrite band jacket purchases for new bandies who attend a specified number of fall events
• Secure arranging and performing rights for student arrangements of popular songs
• Purchase computers, music arranging software, and audio-visual equipment
  
• Buy arrangements and fund commissions for the marching band, jazz bands, and Wind Ensemble
• Fund the marching band’s travel to playoff games and other special events
• Contribute to professional development opportunities for the band directors
  

If you would like to donate to the Harvard Band Foundation endowment, please use the link below to JustGive, which processes online donations for registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations:



For more information on donating directly to annual operating budget of the Harvard University Band, see http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hub/support

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