Chapter Set Up

So, you want to start a Songsalive! Chapter, yeah?

 It’s easy. There are just a few basic blueprints for you to follow, and with our blue print for success, and your enthusiasm, we can all help support and promote songwriters on a global level.

 Contact head quarters/membership

Benefit for you:

•  You get to be part of an international community of volunteers who are working hard to build a great songwriting industry – on a non-profit level (our organization is a non-profit 501 c.3) public charity organization. We are all volunteer songwriters so your contribution is invaluable. You may find that you have more ideas than what we provide here which is great!

•  Your membership with Songsalive! will continue free of charge (receiving all our benefits), during your Chapter coordination (it doesn’t extend beyond services though). You also get personal promotion through Songsalive! Read about the member benefits here.

• You can host your own events with the promotional muscle Songsalive! provides. It elevates you in the music industry instantly.

• You can feel like you are contributing to a worthy cause – supporting and promoting songwriters and composers, with a global mission in mind. Did you know that songwriters are the least “heard” people in the music industry? Yet we are the writers of the songs that make the industry successful. So why not assist and support songwriters and their rights, and at the same time, save a few rainforests!?

• You can create a songwriters community in your area, which is the number 1 reason why chapters are started: a place for songwriters to gather, feel supported, and get promoted. Many of our chapter coordinators join us because as songwriters or artists, they feel isolated or out of the loop. When creating a chapter, they attract like minded songwriters and a community is born!

• Some programs require money paid (fees) from non-members to participate. You can either keep the entry fee from non-members as your admin fee, or like the rest of us, put it into a Cash Box to use for any expenses you may incur on behalf of Songsalive! Please note that all our team worldwide work voluntarily with no salary, but if you feel you are deserving of some of the monies you generate, we will be supportive of that, such as gas, parking or meals reimbursement. (Sometimes the load can feel overwhelming in working for the common cause!)

• Try it for a year. It’s not a lifelong commitment.

Benefit for us:

 We would like to expand our non-profit organization to many different cities and countries. The altruistic benefit for us is that we will know we have reached more songwriters, creating mini-songwriting communities (chapters) and provided opportunities for support, promotion and exposure. In turn, we hope to generate more financial members. By you running a chapter in your area, we are able to assist and promote more songwriters and composers, as well create awareness for larger global issues.

Mission: Encourage and foster all genres of original music and song expression within our songwriters' communities, in order to support and promote songwriters and composers worldwide, through critique workshops, showcases, events, educational seminars, conferences, and programs with continued development, annual reviews and expansion. Recently we have expanded our mission to include raising awareness about global, humanitarian and social issues affecting our world. We are doing this by collaborating with other non-profits specializing in these areas and also through the power of music and the music industry – staging concerts, events and programs that raise this much needed awareness. 
Read more about us and our constitution >

If you are interested, click here for THE STEPS TO TAKE.