The following organizations have signed on as supporters of the unifed statement “Arts Education Is Essential.”
To add your voice to this statement, your organization can sign on to the statement by emailing Essential@nafme.org.
Endorsing Organizations I
| Afterschool Alliance | Music for All |
| American Choral Directors Association | Music Teachers National Association |
| American Composers Forum | NAMM Foundation |
| American Orff-Schulwerk Association | National Art Education Association |
| Americans for the Arts | National Association for Music Education |
| American String Teachers Association | National Association of Elementary School Principals |
| Barbershop Harmony Society | National Association of Secondary School Principals |
| Carnegie Hall | National Coalition for Core Arts |
| Casio America, Inc. | National Dance Education Organization |
| Chorus America | National Education Association |
| CMA Foundation | National Federation of State High School Associations |
| College Band Directors National Association | National YoungArts Foundation |
| Conn-Selmer, Inc. | Organization of American Kodály Educators |
| D’Addario Foundation | Quadrant Research |
| Eastman Music Company | QuaverEd |
| Education Through Music | Recording Academy |
| Educational Theatre Association | Save The Music Foundation |
| Give a Note Foundation | State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education |
| Hal Leonard | The Rock and Roll Forever |
| Historically Black Colleges and Universities National Band Directors’ Consortium | United Sound, Inc. |
| Jazz at Lincoln Center | Varsity Performing Arts |
| Jazz Education Network | West Music Company |
| KHS America | WURRLYedu |
| KORG, USA | Yamaha Corporation of America |
| League of American Orchestras | Young Audiences Arts for Learning |
| Little Kids Rock | YOUnison |
| Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation |
Endorsing Organizations II
| Alfred Music | National Dance Society |
| American Alliance for Theatre & Education | National Music Council |
| American Bandmasters Association | National Organization for Arts in Health |
| American Dance Therapy Association | Newport Festivals Foundation |
| American Music Therapy Association | Nuvo Instrumental, LLC |
| American School Band Directors Association | Perepole, Inc. |
| Arts Schools Network | Progressive Music |
| ASCAP Foundation | Retail Print Music Dealers Association |
| BandLab for Education | Schmitt Music |
| Breezin’ Thru, Inc. | Soundtrap for Education |
| DeMoulin Bros. & Co | Strathmore |
| Educational Tours, Inc. | Sweet Adelines International |
| El Sistema | Sweetwater Sound |
| Excellia Music Publishing | Tau Beta Sigma |
| GIA Publications | Teaching Artists Guild |
| GRAMMY Music Education Coalition | Teaching for Artistic Behavior |
| Halftime Magazine | Teaching With Orff |
| Harmony Helper | Ted Brown Music |
| Kappa Kappa Psi | The American Alliance for Theatre & Education |
| KRUTZ, Inc. | The Midwest Clinic |
| Lesbian and Gay Band Association | The mPowered Music Educator Academy |
| Macie Publishing Company | The Musical Theatre Educators' Alliance |
| MajoringinMusic.com | The National Association of Professional Band Instrument Repair Technicians |
| MakeMusic | The Society for Online Music Education |
| Manhattan Concert Productions | The Suzuki Association of the Americas |
| MFR Holdings, LLC | TI:ME- Technology in Music Education |
| Music and the Brain | Theatre Communications Group |
| Music Together | Todd Rundgren’s Spirit of Harmony Foundation |
| MusicFirst | WGI Sport of the Arts |
| National Association of School Music Dealers | WorldStrides |
| National Dance Institute |
