105 Voices of History

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Sustainability

We are a non-profit organization that focuses on fostering partnerships and resource development through the inclusion of a broad and diverse spectrum of people, corporations, and foundations, in the public and private sectors. Our mission is to enhance resources and build capacity to sustain our nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities, with a particular focus on leadership and performance excellence, an important legacy at each School, that needs our support today or it may be forever lost to history. Through this mission, we will positively impact healthy lifestyles to support a balance life for excellence, recruitment and retention of more students of color, as they are drawn into the arts and the performing arts by their participation in their University programs and the National Kennedy Center performance. Student development through the Kennedy Center participation, performance, and enjoyment by audiences, will also enhance student leadership skills as they become advocates for higher education for all young people in this country.

A National Initiative for Program & Leadership Growth for Performance Excellence

The “105 Voices of History”: Ten Key Goals for Success:

1.	Increase diversity representation in training opportunities and national performances in America fine arts cultural and business arenas
2.	Utilizing the fine art as a campus voice to support pro-social concerns to heighten awareness; The 105 Voices of History Performance, 2009 Platform:” Lifting Our Voices for Leadership, Health and Economic Empowerment”.
3.	Enhance performance opportunities for multiple HBCUs to showcase their institutions’/student’s talents, starting with a premiere venue the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. performance opening day -annual salute to honor National HBCU Week!
4.	Attract BROADER AUDIENCES and NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS.
5.	Build national collaboration of and broader development for our HBCUs’ choir leaders.
6.	Create synergies, partnerships, and learning opportunities for the choir leaders, the student leaders, and the choir members. Develop shared training forums, networking, music and talent development so that choir students will become student leaders, andsome future choir leaders, to take their rightful places in leadership for their schools and in our nation.
7.	Create a National Network & Voice, with new strategies and opportunities to sustain the history, create revenue streams and to continuously build capacity in order to aid their programs and institutions.
8.	Establish a National fund to provide support to Conductors to aid scholarship support to attract and retain students.
9.	National recordings / CDs - DVDs to provide a revenue stream for their programs and to continue to record the collective wisdom of these legacy choirs and their talents.
10.	National and international tours to heighten awareness of the talents of HBCUs and what they have to offer to students of color as well as any student who desires a higher education.