Arnold Shultz Fund endowed, next grant deadline is January 31, 2022 "The Arnold Shultz Fund is an initiative that welcomes the participation of people of color in bluegrass music, " said Dr. Richard Brown of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who co-chairs the Arnold Shultz...

We recently received the following email (excerpted below) from Jessie Lang, a first-year student at Belmont University. The IBMA Foundation awarded Lang a college scholarship in 2020. “The IBMA Foundation's Sally Ann Forrester scholarship helped me start college at...

The Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award annually recognizes the best bluegrass-related paper accepted by a juried academic conference during the year. Developing academic scholars eligible for this award are defined as graduate students in MA or PhD programs and recent...

The drawing for the last available carbon fiber Z Mandolin and a new Calton Case is less than two weeks away! Get your raffle tickets now and plan to join us for the live-stream drawing at noon ET on Friday, May 14, at the IBMA Foundation Facebook page. I hope you...

The Crandall Creek Scholarship is an annual $1,000 college scholarship awarded to a person who demonstrates an interest and involvement in any aspect of bluegrass music, including but not limited to performance. Rainy Miatke from Ashland, Oregon (pictured above) is...

The IBMA Foundation will be participating in the Big PayBack, the annual giving day hosted by The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee for Middle Tennessee donors (and beyond) to give back to nonprofits. During the past seven years the Big Payback has generated...