MUSIC ASCENSION’S PARTNERSHIP WITH THE FEDCAP GROUP & WILDCAT SERVICE CORP.
As a division of the 501 c(3) The Fedcap Group, a nonprofit that develops innovative, sustainable solutions to advance the economic well-being of the impoverished and disadvantaged, Wildcat Service Corp has devoted the last 48 years to bringing vocational and creative resources to youth, adults, and communities who have indirectly and directly been affected by the criminal justice system. Learn More
Music Ascension has partnered with The Fedcap Group for the last decade providing full year music programming to students with Special Needs at the Fedcap School in West Orange, NJ. In Summer 2019 we expanded our partnership to provide programming and support to the young people served by the City of New York’s Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) through Wildcat Service Corp. This summer music program was funded by the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development as part of their WORKFORCE CONNECT outreach program.
“Truly transformatiional and a wonder to observe. This work is invaluable.””
Our impactful partnership with the WIldcat Service Corp and the Fedcap Group is based upon our shared fundamental belief that our young peoples’ voices, especially those who navigate great challenges, deserve to be heard.
We invite you to listen to this powerful collection of original songs WILDCAT ALBUM 2019 written & recorded during the 2019 SYEP in NYC. as well as an original music video Never Giving Up filmed in Newark NJ which features an original song written & performed by students at the Fedcap School.
I also invite you to a TEDx Talk I gave about the power of Giving Voice which features the lyrics and music of some of the young people we’ve had the honor of working over the last 20 plus years.
As you already know and have so generously funded our programming, Music Ascension has specialized in giving voice to young people through our Songwriting & Recording program. We’ve facilitated and produced thousands of songs and over 100 albums written entirely by our youth.
Our team of Teaching Artists, Music Producers, Music Educators and Songwriters bring seasoned professional experience, their own unique artistry, passion, compassion and humanity to this work in equal measure. With great sensitivity and respect for each participant, our staff helps to draw out and facilitate the songwriting process, transforming young people’s stories and experiences into lyrics and melodies, rhythms and rhymes. The act of infusing a young person’s stories with these creative elements can breathe life into what is so often indescribable within them and around them.
We’ve witnessed how the power of giving voice to their hopes, their anger, their grief, their rage, their inner knowing, their wisdom, their reality through creative avenues has transformed them. Transformed their experiences. Transformed those around them. And indeed saved their lives.
