"Negro Spiritual" Scholarship Foundation ("NS"SF)

The “Negro Spiritual” Scholarship Foundation is a Central Florida nonprofit established in 1996. The network of programs and services through which it impacts the public is known as Project GRADY-RAYAM. The agency’s threefold mission is to preserve America’s Negro spiritual songs from the slave era as part of our cultural heritage, provide training, development and scholastic assistance grants for young artists, and inspire the American public to embrace spirituals as a shared cultural legacy. Over a span of twenty years the organization has worked directly with more than 50,000 clients including senior high school students, collegians, parents, educators and music professionals. It collaborates with churches, performing arts groups, and cultural or civic organizations to extend the rich legacy of the Negro spiritual through outreach in the form of workshops, lectures and recitals. The agency produces an annual season of music concerts that stimulate and inspire the wider community. It commissions scholars and musicians to produce new works, hires professional singers and players in support of the American cultural community, and shares its resources and expertise with others nationwide.

National Association of Negro Musicians (NAMN)

NANM, Inc. is an historic organization that aims to preserve and promote the music and legacies of African-American composers, arrangers, and performers.

For almost a century, the National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc. has been a champion for African and African-American music and musicians.  Our organization is concerned with the performance and preservation of uniquely African-American music, while acknowledging and providing opportunity to the Black composer and performer.  Our membership ranges the full spectrum of interest in music: performers, educators, students, administrators, and enthusiasts.  Find out more information about our "Pride in a cultural heritage."