Nonprofit Newswire | Innovation—Pounding out a Key Statement on Human Rights

Ruth McCambridge

June 23, 2010

June 22, 2010; Source: Huffington Post | A nonprofit arts group has distributed 60 pianos around New York City as a human rights statement. They are for use for the next two weeks by anyone who wants to sit themselves down and bang out a tune or two. Volunteers unlock the pianos each morning and ensure that all runs smoothly throughout the day. Sing for Hope believes that participation in arts creation is a basic human right.—Ruth McCambridge

Ruth McCambridge

Ruth is the founder and Editor Emerita of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Her background includes forty-five years of experience in nonprofits, primarily in organizations that mix grassroots community work with policy change. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Ruth spent a decade at the Boston Foundation, developing and implementing capacity building programs and advocating for grantmaking attention to constituent involvement.