A Roadmap for Social Policy Improvement

In a recent report, "Mobilizing Change:10 Nonprofit Policy Proposals
to Strengthen U.S. Communities" the Aspen Institute proposes ideas for
the entire sector that not only seem to promise improvement among
communities, but help for nonprofit organizations themselves. The
most beneficial aspect of this document is its ability to explain the
needs of each proposal, with regard to both human and fiscal
resources.

The final proposal is an idea to create a "Music National Service
Initiative" – the program, which would be titled MusicianCorps, is
structured very similarly to the program Teach For America, however it
relies much more heavily on charitable funding to pay the Fellows. As
is usually the case with these programs, fancy claims regarding the
benefits of music education provide a bulk of support for the
proposal. Here's hoping that foundations see the validity in these
claims to actually take this program off of the ground.

- Courtney