ROCK THE CAUSE INC

Rock the Cause is an award-winning nonprofit community organization and record label. Rock the Cause Records has worked with some of today’s most beloved artists and has sold over 500,000 singles, and its music releases have been streamed over 30 million times, generating nearly $750,000 directed to charitable causes around the world. Rock the Cause is widely recognized as an innovative thought leader in arts education and an innovator of vocational discovery programs for youth. Rock the Cause works daily with vulnerable populations of youth to teach them about careers in the arts and entertainment industry while they earn a high school diploma. The work of Rock the Cause has been featured by Rolling Stone, NPR, Billboard, and at education conferences like SXSW EDU, Z-Voices, and RAPSA. Learn more at www.irockthecause.org

Our goal is to create social and economic access to underserved populations of people through education, our record label, and community events.

We use our record label, concert events, volunteer drives, and high school music program to raise funds, increase awareness, and recruit volunteers, for other nonprofit organizations.

In August of 2017, High School for Recording Arts (HSRA) in partnership with nonprofit record label Rock the Cause Records, implemented a paid Business of Music and Media internship program. Since that time, the internship program has provided close to $100,000 in W2 wages and stipends to over 50 HSRA students living in Minnesota. In the Spring of 2019, the same program was replicated at High School for Recording Arts Los Angeles and 24 students were paid close to $20,000 in W2 Wages.

The wages and stipends for these programs are funded by private donors, corporate partners like Men's Warehouse and Music-Go-Round, and funds are administrated by Rock the Cause Records, Ramsey County Workforce Solutions, C.A.R.E.S. Act funding, and the State of California Jobs Program for Youth.
In the Business of Music internship, students earn experience in a real-world media environment, managing HSRA's bourgeoning record label Another Level Records, and award-winning HSRA made documentary films like RONDO: Beyond the Pavement.

The worlds only full time nonprofit record label dedicated to releasing music that impacts charity.
Worldwide music distribution
Worldwide social media and digital media capabilities
Large and small event capabilities
In classroom workshops on community service and the business of being a nonprofit
Large and small scale volunteer drive capabilities
Partnerships with celebrities and music artists across the globe
Vocational Discovery Programs in High School and Colleges

Perhaps you know our work. We are the same record label that helped Zach Sobiech to launch his charitable single 'Clouds'. Zach's music continues to inspire millions around the world and has nearly raised 1 million dollars for pediatric cancer research. More recently we released the inspirational hit song 'Hold You Up' by Matt Hires benefiting Ronald McDonald House Charities. Then there is also the critically acclaimed Farewell Transmission the Music of Jason Molina, which Rock the Cause released to much fanfare from the likes of NPR, Rolling Stone, Spin and more! The list goes on!

What you really need to know is simple. Over the past 13 years Rock the Cause has grown into one of the nation's most respected music nonprofits. We have helped dozens of organizations raise awareness, new stewardship, and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Through our work in colleges and high schools across the region, we have helped hundreds of students to discover an opportunity to give back.

We plan to expand our vocational discovery program across schools in America working in distance learning environment.

We are not a pass-through organization. We work hard to raise money. Sometimes it is a 99 cent song download. Other times it is a large scale concert event. All of this requires money for administration, technology, professional services, equipment, etc. We deliver impact on a grand scale. Music is our front line social mission.