Author: Bill Lord, Executive Director

Our thanks to the Frederick Arts Council for their continued support of Global Z, and their recent issuance of a 2025 Community Arts Development Grant!

Once again, our thanks go out to the Delaplaine Foundation for their generous and continued support of Global Z!

A huge nod of thanks to the Ausherman Family Foundation for their recent grant to Global Z. Your generous gift helps ensure we are allowed to continue our mission and support our community.

Global Z is incredibly excited to have been selected to receive a Community Partnership Grant for 2025 from Frederick County! Our expressed appreciation for your support.

One of the outcomes of our 2023 Frederick Circle of Musical Unity project is a commercial-quality master recording of the student-created song, “All This Time.” The song serves as the foundation for the project’s music video.

April 13th, we held a Red Carpet Event to celebrate the completion of our 2023 Frederick Circle of Musical Unity project. The event was a smashing success featuring the world premiere of the project’s documentary video, a Q&A session with the student musicians, songwriters, engineers, and videographers, and a live performance of the project’s song, “All This Time.” The following is a link to the project’s documentary video:

A most gracious “thank you” to the Ausherman Family Foundation for their latest grant to Global Z. They definitely do their part to ensure “Frederick County is a thriving community of vibrant spaces and places, with a superior quality of life, and strong and collaborative nonprofit organizations.”

Once again, we thank Sweetwater Sound for supporting Global Z with essential gear that allows us to support our mission and provide exceptional hands-on teaching and learning experiences to student musicians, composers, and audio engineers.

A big “thank you” to the Independent Educational Consultants Association Foundation for providing Global Z with the first grant from their fine organization. We have put these funds to immediate use to the direct benefit of our student musicians, composers and audio engineers!