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 | Barefoot Republic's mission is to facilitate the development of Christ-centered relationships between individuals who represent diverse racial, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, through an equally diverse platform of artistic, athletic and team building programs.
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| | City of Hope, an innovative biomedical research, treatment and educational institution, is dedicated to the prevention and cure of cancer and other life-threatening diseases, guided by a compassionate patient-centered philosophy, and supported by a national foundation of humanitarian philanthropy. | | | www.cityofhope.org/home.htm | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Compassion International exists as a Christian child advocacy ministry that releases children from spiritual, physical, economic and social poverty and enables them to become responsible, fulfilled Christian adults.
| | | www.compassion.com/default.htm | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Feed My Starving Children (FMSC), founded in 1987, is a non-profit Christian organization with the mission of “Feeding God’s Starving Children Hungry in Body and Spirit.” The approach is simple: volunteers of all ages pack highly nutritious meals for severely malnourished children. In 2007, 40 million FMSC meals were packaged and shipped to starving children around the world. For more information visit www.fmsc.org. | | | www.fmsc.org | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | The GMA Foundation (GMAF) is a non-profit educational association working in connection with the Gospel Music Association (GMA). The GMAF recognizes and preserves the history and legacy of all forms of gospel music and provides educational resources that encourage participation and appreciation by the general public. | | | www.gospelmusic.org | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | The primary purpose of the Gospel Music Trust Fund is to supply to those who have made lasting contributions to gospel music, emergency assistance in time of financial need; to preserve the honor and dignity of gospel music emissaries who have fallen victim to unexpected financial crises due to catastrophic illness or untimely family death; and to fulfill the charge impressed upon us by scripture – "I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor God’s seed begging bread." Psalm 37:25 | | | www.gospelmusictrustfund.org | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | The GRAMMY Foundation was founded in 1989 to cultivate the awareness, appreciation and advancement of the contribution of recorded music on American culture – from the artistic and technical legends of the past to the still unimagined musical breakthroughs of the future generations of music professionals. | | | www.grammy.com/foundation/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Established in 1989 by The Recording Academy, MusiCares has been helping people across the country cope with personal, medical and financial hardships. MusiCares provides totally confidential crisis intervention, health care referrals and financial assistance. MusiCares' confidential and caring approach allows those in need to seek help with dignity and confidence | | | www.grammy.com/musicares | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Following God's command to love our neighbor as ourselves, the Nashville Rescue Mission seeks to help the hurting of Middle Tennessee by offering food, clothing and shelter to the homeless and recovery programs to those enslaved in life degrading problems. Their goal is to help people know the saving grace of Jesus, and through Him, gain wisdom for living, find fulfillment in life and become a positive part of their community. | | | www.nashvillerescuemission.org | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| New Hope Academy is a Christ-centered community school that exists to establish a solid Biblical worldview, instill vision, confirm hope, and prepare each young person for a life of service. While maintaining an economically, racially and culturally diverse student body, New Hope Academy provides an excellent education for underserved families. New Hope Academy is committed to educating the whole person spiritually, intellectually, emotionally, socially and physically and it is their intention that the students will grow to be men and women of faith, integrity, and character.
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| ONE is Americans of all beliefs and every walk of life – united as ONE – to help make poverty history. ONE believes that allocating more of the U.S. budget toward providing basic needs like health, education, clean water and food would transform the futures and hopes of an entire generation in the world's poorest countries. The goal of ending poverty may seem lofty, but it is within reach if we take action together as ONE.
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| Operation Christmas Child brings joy and hope to children in desperate situations around the world through gift-filled shoe boxes and the Good News of God's love.
| | | www.samaritanspurse.org/OCC.asp?MPGID=1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Founded in 2001, Porter's Call exists to provide a welcoming relationship for recording artists on their pilgrimage of life and faith. It is a safe and confidential shelter where questions can be asked and answers explored; a place where broken lives can be restored and healed; a place where God can be discovered and encountered; a place where creative gifts can be deepened and enhanced.
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| | Recognizing that adoption is a perfect picture of what God has done for each of us in making us His children through Christ, Shaohannah's Hope has been established to care for orphans by engaging the church and helping Christian families reduce the financial barriers to adoption. Dedicated to helping prospective adoptive parents overcome the financial barriers associated with adoption, Shaohannah’s Hope awards financial grants to qualified families already in the process of adopting. | | | www.shaohannahshope.org | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Sweet Sleep exists to share God’s love by providing beds to the world’s orphaned and abandoned children. | | | www.sweetsleep.org | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | The T.J. Martell Foundation is dedicated to raising funds for the innovative initial and ongoing research into the treatments and cures of leukemia, cancer and AIDS. With its National headquarters in New York, the Martell Foundation includes The Bogart Pediatric Cancer Research Program in Los Angeles; the Nashville Division; and the Midwest Division based in Detroit. | | | www.tjmartellfoundation.org/whoweare/who.las | | | | | | | |  | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Billboard.com is the Internet home of Billboard magazine, the leading international newsweekly of music, video and home entertainment. Billboard magazine has served the information needs of the entertainment business since 1894. Headquartered in New York, Billboard has offices in Los Angeles, Nashville, Washington, D.C., London, and Tokyo, and has editorial correspondents in major cities around the globe. | | | www.billboard.com | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | CBA is the trade association for the Christian retail channel, serving the interests and meeting the needs of nearly 2,300 member Christian stores. These stores provide Bibles, Christian books, curriculum, apparel, music, videos, gifts, greeting cards, children's resources, and other materials.
CBA and their member stores also work with over 600 associate member book publishers, record companies, gift companies and other product suppliers. Along with the Christian Trade Association International, CBA also serves the meeting and information needs of over 1,000 Christian stores and suppliers in over 50 countries around the world
| | | www.cbaonline.org | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | The Christian Music Trade Association exists to build community and cooperation among industry leadership in order to address mutual business issues and to maximize Christian music's sales and impact on culture. | | | www.cmta.com | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Founded in 1964, the Gospel Music Association serves as a face and voice for the Christian music community. As an umbrella trade organization, the GMA provides an atmosphere in which artists, industry leaders, retail stores, radio stations, concert promoters and local churches can coordinate their efforts for the purpose of benefiting the industry as a whole, while remaining true to the purpose of communicating the gospel message. The GMA continues to build a platform for all genres of gospel music through its programs, special projects and services. | | | www.gospelmusic.org | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Established in 1957, The Recording Academy is an organization of musicians, producers, engineers and recording professionals dedicated to improving the quality of life and cultural condition for music and its makers. Internationally known for the GRAMMY® Awards, The Recording Academy is responsible for groundbreaking professional development, cultural enrichment, advocacy, education and human services programs — including the creation of the national public education campaign What's The Download® | | | www.grammy.org | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Radio & Records is the preeminent information company serving the key decisionmakers in the radio and record industries. Founded in 1973, R&R offers a broad line of print, Internet, research, convention and seminar products providing radio- and record-industry executives with access to critical research information, including the most comprehensive music-airplay data in the industry. | | | www.randr.com | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry. Its mission is to foster a business and legal climate that supports and promotes our members' creative and financial vitality. Its members are the record companies that comprise the most vibrant national music industry in the world. RIAA members create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 90% of all legitimate sound recordings produced and sold in the United States. | | | www.riaa.com | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | SoundScan is designed to provide weekly, point-of-sale data with the highest possible degree of accuracy and integrity. Functioning as a central clearinghouse for music industry data, SoundScan enables its subscribers to access comprehensive reports from a wide variety of perspectives. All of the nation's major retailers are included in our survey: Musicland, Camelot, Blockbuster Music, Transworld Music, Wherehouse, Bestbuy, Tower Records and others. In order to provide a comprehensive basis for the generated reports, Mass merchandisers, smaller chains and independent retail outlets, internet, venue, and other non-traditional sales are included. | | | www.bdsonline.com/products/soundsca.shtml | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | If you love Christian music, take a few moments to sample great songs, catch up on music news, read & post comments on our message boards, and check out the newest WoW Hits album. | | | www.wowhits.com | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | We all love music. We listen to it at home. We bring it with us on the run. We share experiences through it. But lately there's been lots of noise about music, how we get it and what we do with it. That’s why The Recording Academy (GRAMMY Awards) created WhatsTheDownload.com – a place for music fans, like you, to learn about the issues, to hear artists’ views on downloading, and to create a dialogue between music makers and music fans to help shape an exciting digital music future. The Academy is the voice of more than 17,000 music makers, all of whom have very different viewpoints on issues affecting music. We wanted to make sure that those viewpoints -- and yours -- have an equal place in the current debate. Because, we understand that there's so much more to music than meets the ear. | | | whatsthedownload.com | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | The explosion in illegal copying is affecting the entire music community. It has a very real and harmful impact on virtually everyone - from countless musicians, songwriters, performers, producers, recording engineers and others who use music as their platform for ministry. | | | www.millionsofwrongs.org | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | The explosion in illegal copying is affecting the entire music community. And contrary to what some people would tell you, it’s having a very real and harmful impact on countless musicians, songwriters, and performers—virtually everyone, from recording engineers to record-store clerks, who dreams about making a living providing music to the public. | | | www.MusicUnited.org | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | CCLI’s mission is to encourage the spirit of worship through music to the local church collectively and to Christians individually, so that they may enhance their worship expression spontaneously, conveniently, affordably, and legally. CCLI issues licenses granting permission to copy from over 150,000 songs for congregational use. The license enables you to make overhead transparencies, songsheets and songbooks, input lyrics on a computer, record worship services, and make arrangements of the music (where no published version exists). | | | www.ccli.com | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Over the course of time, some of our artists and producers have changed addresses without notifying us and without leaving a forwarding address. As a result, royalty payments have been returned by the Post Office. | | | www.emidigital.com/royaltors/royaltors.html | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | WorshipTogether.com was launched in 1998 at a critical juncture in contemporary church history – when the baton of faith was being passed on to an emerging generation of younger leaders, and the infectious spirit of this new breed began transforming corporate worship everywhere. The mission of WorshipTogether.com is to equip local church worship leaders and musicians with with new songs, training and resources for modern worship. | | | www.WorshipTogether.com | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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