While it is true that many of our events have been for established and world famous non profits, many MORE of our events have been for small organizations such as yours.

Here is a fascinating segment (Part 2 of a 4 part interview) from a well known National Public Radio station:

KDNK Radio in Carbondale, CO (Rick Interview) (audio) (December 2008)

As you can hear from the interview - the interviewer on NPR, while slightly embarrassed, is also excited about the fact that the outstanding organization that we were supporting there was able to educate her in this way.

The really amazing opportunity here would be the possibility that Rick DellaRatta is also NOT well known in your city.

That is because this door opening and community educating opportunity brings a tremendous amount of credibility to the causes we represent and “sets these organizations apart” from the scathes of 501 c3’s out there that most people simply avoid altogether because they can't tell one from another.

If everyone ALREADY KNEW about Rick and Jazz for Peace the cat would already be out of the bag and our recipients introduction of Rick to KDNK and the rest of the community wouldn’t be nearly as big a deal.

However the exciting but unfortunate fact is that there are really good people out there who have heard of General Motors but not Rain Fuel (a sustainable energy non profit) and have heard of Anna Nicole Smith but not Jazz for Peace.

You’re introduction of these “Unprecedented Achievements in BOTH Philanthropy and Jazz” as detailed at this link www.ljjm.biz  clearly communicates the message that you are an outstanding local organization that they need to give a listen to and strongly consider lending their support.

And while it is much more difficult for Jazz for Peace to publicize organizations that no one has heard about than it is the ones they already know, our biggest publicity successes have ALL come from our publicity of small, relatively unknown organizations as you can easily see simply by going to www.jazzforpeace.org/testimonials.html and looking at the letters from Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Michael Bloomberg. You will see they were all obtained for very small organizations such as yours. US Congressman Dennis Kucinich and Actor Ed Begley Jr. are two examples of many who have attended Jazz for Peace events to help very small non profit organizations with outstanding missions who were previously underfunded and underpublicized just like you.

That is why we always ask our recipients for input as to how we can most effectively publicize them.

While there is certainly no guarantee that your organization will go from relatively unknown to well known from this world class cultural event that we put on at absolutely no cost to you, there IS a most definite possibility that your organization could become MUCH more known than you are right now.