Both has been replaced since March 13, 2020, when we closed the GRAMMY Museum to our members, visitors and students. The global where we visit museums, attend courses and feed on content with various user tactics, adding concerts and exhibits, has replaced. Museums like ours have had to temporarily evolve and adjust our business style to continue to engage our members in a very different and remote way. As a result, we responded and adapted to continue our musical education and cultural preservation project. Now that 4 months have passed, it is transparent that with a little investment and realignment of priorities, assembling our network digitally where it has allowed us to persevere and measure how significant it has an effect on our project.
Education is at the forefront of this has an effect and the vital maxim of everything we do. For more than a decade, the GRAMMY Museum has placed schooling at the programmatic center of our existence. From academics who visit the museum and find all kinds of music, to our painting workshops, extracurricular sessions, an extensive FIVE-day and more GRAMMY camp, the Museum’s school systems have a direct effect on more than 30,000 elementary, middle and higher schools. national academics each year. However, our paintings do not deserve to be prevented at the secondary level. Now, more than ever, it deserves to get bigger for recent college graduates and career seekers. This is evident through an unemployment rate of 11.1 consistent with the penny at the time of writing.
As leaders in the music, arts and culture industries, we actively seek to highlight these opportunities as a key component of our mission. This perception recognizes that a comprehensive educational experience does not prevent in museum systems or even in the classroom. As president of a museum with a strong and well-known brand, I perceive that it is our duty to leverage our resources to unite and foster the next generation of creators and industry leaders, in our case, the music industry. This is not only “on a mission” but also for our long-term success and economy.
Tutoring is a component of our programming and that’s why I’m incredibly proud to have partnered with former first lady Michelle Obama’s Reach Higher initiative to bring long music together with today’s creators and leaders. We do this through our Mentorship Mondays program, which brings you in the academics who take part in the GRAMMY U club of the Recording Academy and succeed at Higher’s Beating the Odds summit for creators and music industry professionals who are masters of their craft.
By presenting this program and this association, I learned how privileged it was to have a mentor so close to home. I’m lucky I was able to call my Uncle Rick Glass a mentor, long before I thought I was the address of my career. Rick’s track record and expansion in business has been inspiring and, for more than twenty years, he has pleaded with and guided me, he probably doesn’t realize that much of what I learned came here just to observe his actions. Tutoring is the key to good fortune in any sector, but it is fundamental in music. We may not all have an “integrated” mentor like Uncle Rick, but we can all actively provide mentoring opportunities for others.
Most non-profit administrators will tell you that the mission of their organization is a personal one. It is incumbent upon us to find ways to bridge that personal passion we each have for our missions with an eye toward the future successes of our industries. Indeed, it is our duty as executives and leaders to not only serve as mentors, but to provide the necessary structural resources for others to thrive.
Reach Higher, a previously hosted civic nation initiative, is now a component of Common App, a nonprofit organization committed to access, equity, and integrity in the school admissions process.
Michael Sticka is the president of the GRAMMY Museum, a non-profit organization committed to cultivating a greater history and meaning of music.
Michael Sticka is the president of the GRAMMY Museum, a non-profit organization committed to cultivating a greater history and meaning of music.