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MUSIC MATTERS 


 

If you missed Carolyn Malachi with Noel "Paul" Stookey, Jasiri X, and the rest of the Music2Life family last Friday in NYC, here's a quick update...

MUSIC MATTERS now heads to New Orleans next Friday (5/31) to perform for the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Colleges (NCORE). This is a group of 2,300 diversity educators around the country who can bring our programs to their students in 2014. Later this year, MUSIC MATTERS heads to Bloomberg News to be globally broadcast as part of their Inspirational Speaker Series...
Thanks to your support, Music2Life helps music spark activism for causes through creative and evocative programming.

Contribute to Music2Life, here!

- CM

IG: CAROLYNMALACHI  



At George Washington University
, Dr. Pierre Vigilance and the Medici Group gathered thought leaders from various arenas. Using only the resources available to us, we searched for innovative solutions to public health challenges. I am amazed by what we found at the intersection of our ideas... My brain has been doing cartwheels ever since!

- CM

ELLEN. TAYLOR. ME. YOU. 

What can you accomplish with a few friends and a serious vision? Try this on for size.


 
I love making music. When the creative process ends, I put my product on the market then cross my fingers, hoping it serves a higher purpose. Too much guessing grinds my gears (blame that on my Zodiac sign). I need to know what I do makes a real difference.

The Carmelita Group introduced me to The School Fund. Ignited by the problem of access to education and united by music, we created the #IAM Campaign

Enter Chegg. The company saves US college students hundreds of dollars a year on textbooks and matches them with personalized scholarship opportunities. Chegg for Good, its philanthropic arm, engages their employees, partners, and students through opportunities to do some good in the world.

Chegg maintains a succinct roster of supportive artists and entertainers. In 2012, during a March episode of the Ellen Show, they awarded one struggling student with a $35,000 scholarship. In October, the company donated $10,000 music education grants to five American colleges. They furnished one, Harvey Mudd College, with an intimate performance by Taylor Swift.

How did Chegg begin 2013? They started the year helping students in East Africa through the #IAM Campaign. It works like this. When folks like you and I watch my “Free Your Mind” music video Chegg donates the cost of an hour of class time to The School Fund. One view equals one class hour.


Chegg committed their donation of 10,000 class hours in January.

Neither the School Fund, Carmelita Group, or I have followings the size of Ellen DeGeneres or Taylor Swift's - yet. We are a small, impassioned unit on a meaningful journey. Along the way, our open-source ethos has raised support from the likes of GOOD, the Huffington Post, Sun Chase Media, PreSonus, Music2Life, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Business Civic Leadership Center, and now Chegg.

What problem do you want to solve? Is it vast or niche? Who else cares about the problem, and how can your respective skills meet to address it? Seize the time. MacGyver your dreams. Watch your world change.

May 2013 be the breakout year for your innovative partnership...Onward and upward!

- CM

 

FREE YOUR MIND: WHAT A CRAZY IDEA! 

 

Here we are, 
the School Fund and I, behaving like wind turbines, harnessing music video views and song downloads to create access to education.

Sharing this makes you a game changer and a problem solver. How?

Every view of the "Free Your Mind" music video, and each song download, generates one hour of class time donated to students in East Africa courtesy of The School Fund’s corporate sponsors. Our goal is to provide 10,000 class hours per month for six months. The impact is real, the results are measurable, and the engagement is global.

We call our partnership the #IAM Campaign.

Chegg has already sponsored 20,000 class hours. Features in the Huffington Post, GOOD Magazine, Music2Life - even the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Business Civic Leadership Center - lead us to believe our crazy idea may actually be quite sane.

I have in mind the echoed posts of a loyal fan (Tribe member) who goes by the name Dr. Post Alot. After learning about the #IAM Campaign, DPA began including in his Twitter timeline just as many tweets about developments in education-nonprofit funding as he did tweets about the latest album releases.

Look at it this way.

All the digital world’s a stage, and each person a key player. You may have 359 Facebook friends (the global average) and half as many Twitter followers, but post an idea that resonates with just one active user, and you could land the world’s most coveted role - thought leader.

That's not so crazy after all, is it?...onward and upward!

- CM

P.S. 
Meet the team behind the video and the song.


#IAM COUNTING DOWN  

 
 
This is a screen shot from the "Free Your Mind" music video. It goes live in three days. Each view of this music video and download of the song will generate $.19 (the cost of one class hour in Tanzania and Kenya) through a global education non-profit org called The School Fund. We call our partnership the "#IAM Campaign".

Just by clicking “play” or “download”, anyone with internet access can help a student to one day say, “I AM a doctor,” “I AM an engineer…” The impact is real, the results are measurable, and the engagement is global. Be here on December 17...and wear your dancing shoes.

- CM

 

PRACTICE WHAT YOU REACH 



The School Fund and I teamed up with a single mission in mind, to use music as a means of educating students in developing countries. How cool is THIS?! The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Business Civic Leadership Center just made room for me to talk about our unique partnership. What an astounding platform and precious opportunity to tell our story! Read the complete post, here: http://bclc.uschamber.com/blog/2012-11-05/practice-what-you-reach .

Onward and upward!

- CM

FRIENDS AND FOREIGN POLICY 


President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney’s third and final debate at Lynn University University in Boca Raton, Fla. is slated for Monday at 9 p.m. ET. Watch it live, here. S/O to Mashable for keeping it viral. 

To stop the music, click the pause button  on the music player at the bottom of your screen.

Stay informed, my friends. Onward and upward!

- CM
http://www.CarolynMalachi.com
 
 
 

LET'S TALK ABOUT IT 


Here's one reason why I'm excited to perform for the progressives at +Google, next week. This conversation must continue. Most interesting to me are Shaun Bailey's comments about what people buy. Here we are again swimming in the murky waters of the old "You are what you eat" debate. I know that what we "eat" is largely dictated by convenience; it's easier to access what's aggressively and intentionally marketed to us. BUT, if we really want to fuel our collective potential, we can and should search beyond our comfort zones.

Pat Metheny said it best - "It takes a little bit longer to discover the good stuff".

- CM
http://www.CarolynMalachi.com

REGISTER + VOTE! 

September 25, 2012 was the first ever National Voter Registration Day in the USA. 

Deadlines for registering are coming up soon. If you haven’t registered (or re-registered if you’ve moved) you can’t vote on November 6th.  To register or update your registration, go HERE. Remember to keep an eye on your state's cut-off date, because your state does have one.

Registering is the first step. The next is to VOTE. Find info about voter registration deadlines, your polling location, your rights as a voter, and absentee and early voting in your state here: http://bit.ly/JF0Ppb .

Or call them at 1-866-OUR-VOTE.

- CM
www.CarolynMalachi.com

P.S.
Art and democracy are contact sports. Play!

ABRACADABRA 


 
 
 
Photos and Makeup by INK COSMETICS
www.INKCosmetics.com
 
Last night's performance / "Free Your Mind" video shoot was magical. I'm talking about hocus pocus!

Half of the drum set disappeared from the stage just before my band and I were introduced. Theater staff ran next door to a rehearsal space and grabbed pieces to complete the drum kit. In the mean time, we flipped the order of events and shot the video sequences first.

The audience had a fun, unique experience punctuated by an introduction to the Taratibu Youth Association and my collaboration with The School Fund: http://huff.to/PvaOQm.

I am proud of my team and Sage Salvo, the concert organizer. Together, we made magic. A note from a fan which reads, "I had terrific time. My girlfriend, who was with me tonite, enjoyed the show too!!!! Ohhhhh thank you," inspired me to grab some candid photos from the web and share them with you.

Presto: http://bit.ly/QzqdwL.

 - CM
http://www.CarolynMalachi.com

WHILE YOU WERE WATCHING THE OLYMPICS 



While the Olympic Games captured the world's attention, Celebrity Photographer, Kawai Matthews and a few Los Angeles area students made history of their own.

Kawai taught the first ever Music Photography 101 course at The GRAMMY Museum. Kudos to the Recording Academy for supporting this type of community engagement. The historic effort culminates on August 11 with a public exhibition and screening of the students' work from 1:30 pm to 4 pm at the Grammy Museum located at 800 W. Olympic Blvd inside of the LA Live Complex.

Kawai and her students host Saturday's event. Interscope recording artist MATEO sweetens the moment with a listening party. Do attend, and watch beautiful dreams come to life: http://ymlp.com/z3GFDI.

- CM
http://www.CarolynMalachi.com