The ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composers Awards has received a major, multi-year financial commitment from The Herb Alpert Foundation. The program, established in 2002, has been renamed the Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards.

The ASCAP Foundation presented "ASCAP Day" @ Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, providing Film Scoring and Songwriting students an opportunity to talk to composer and musician Pat Irwin as well as ASCAP staff about information on current trends in the industry.

The family of Jimmy Van Heusen has established the Jimmy Van Heusen Award at The ASCAP Foundation to honor the legacy of the great American songwriter.

"Songwriters: The Next Generation," a program of The ASCAP Foundation and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which is made possible by the Bart Howard Estate, showcased the work of four emerging songwriters and composers -- Andy Akiho, Julia Haltigan, André Henry and Celia Woodsmith with Della Mae on the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage on March 22 and 23, 2012

ASCAP Foundation President Paul Williams has announced the recipients of the 2012 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. The young composers will be recognized at the annual ASCAP Concert Music Awards at Merkin Concert Hall in New York on May 24, 2012.

The program, established in 2002, was created to encourage gifted jazz composers from throughout the United States. The recipients, who receive cash awards, range in age from 10 to 29, and are selected through a juried national competition.

We are pleased to announce that Mary Rodgers has recently established The ASCAP Foundation Mary Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Award, which is presented annually to an ASCAP member who is a promising musical theater lyricist.  A composer/lyricist team is also eligible.

For the past 4 years, The ASCAP Foundation has provided a grant to Music-COMP (formerly known as The Vermont MIDI Project) to support its Composer to Composer: Professionals Mentoring Young Composers program.