We are a 501c3 and your donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.
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Stock Donations
Gifts of marketable securities that have been held longer than one year allow you to make a charitable deduction equal to the full fair market value of the securities. These gifts allow you to avoid taxation and can be a major benefit to you if you have held securities for several years and they have grown in value. In addition, by making a gift of securities and letting NOMAF sell them, you avoid paying any taxes on capital gains on the appreciation in the value of the securities.
For those interested, please review Donations of Stock and Bonds — Gifts of Securities. For additional information, please contact donations@nomaf.org or (504) 415-3514.
Donate a Vehicle
Thanks to our partnership with CARS, donating your car is easy. Everything is taken care of – pick-up, sale, and sending your tax documents – with gratitude and great service while delivering the highest returns to support the Musicians’ Clinic. For additional information, please email donations@nomaf.org or call (504) 415-3514.
Green Policy
In an effort to reduce environmental impact and costs, we’d prefer to email thank you letters and tax deductible receipts. It’s part of NOMAF’s green policy to reduce our use of fuel, paper, ink and gas to deliver the mail. Every little bit helps!
Anonymous Donations
The New Orleans Musicians Assistance Foundation (NOMAF) follows the highest level of privacy for our donors, funders and investors. Donor contact information is never shared with any other organization or third party.
If you prefer not to be listed in NOMAF’s annual report, please notify us to list you as “Anonymous.”
GIVING LEVELS
$25
covers the copay for one medical specialist visit
$50
funds one mental health therapy session for a musician in need
$100
provides a physical therapy session for a performer
$250
funds annual blood work for an NOMC patient
$500
provides one year of dental services for a musician
$1000
funds 1 year of patient care OR sponsors a community health outreach event
John Gros
Musician
“I support the Musicians’ Clinic because they help musicians who need medical attention. The clinic has proven that it saves lives, extends lives and educates the musicians to lead a healthier life by being proactive before health problems surface.”
Big Queen Cherice Harrison-Nelson
Co-Founder & Director of the Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame
“On June 23, 2011 a few words changed my life forever: ‘Ms. Nelson, you have cancer.’ The support from the NOMC added light to my healing journey as I vowed to approach my diagnosis as ‘Shallow Water,’ or something I’d walk and dance through with dignity. Their team regularly checked on me and coordinated low-cost medication and free PT. Cancer changed my life, supporters of the NOMC kept my music ALIVE.”
David Simon
2010 MacArthur Fellow Recipient; Creator of HBO’s The Wire; Co-Creator of HBO’s Treme
"Here’s why I am committed to help the NOMC: It comes down to arithmetic. The life expectancy for the primary demographic of their patients, African-American males in New Orleans, is just 68. 1 years, compared to 78.2 years for males in the USA. However, the NOMC lessens this disparity by engaging their patients to take control of their own wellbeing – the results are high participation rates in diabetes management programs, antismoking campaigns, and community wellness initiatives.”
Phil Frazier
Founder of Grammy winning Rebirth Brass Band
“In December of 2008, I suffered a stroke and endured months of hospitalization and physical therapy – that time offstage felt like an eternity. The NOMC was there for me every step of the way to get me back performing. The specialists even found a way to include my sousaphone in the physical therapy sessions! THANK YOU, my Musicians’ Clinic family (YOU, the donors) and all of the specialists who supported my long road back.”
C.R. Gruver
Musician, The New Orleans Suspects
“The services the Clinic provides helps the musicians in New Orleans continue to perform day in and day out. A musician's income is often not enough to afford health care, and as the saying goes, "The show must go on".... musicians rarely if ever take sick days. Maintaining the health of our musicians, in a city where music helps drive the entire community, is arguably the most important thing an organization can do.”
Derrick Freeman
Musician, Songwriter, Bandleader – SOUL Brass Band
“The Musicians’ Clinic is very supportive and extremely encouraging. They understand the needs of musicians, both physically and mentally. They provide services most of us couldn’t afford otherwise.”
Ivan Neville
Musician, Dumpstaphunk Band Leader
“Most musicians do not have good healthcare, some have no healthcare at all. It’s great to have a place you can call, go get checked up, and if you have any medical issues you can get help. I don’t know what I would do without the Musicians’ Clinic, and I know so many who feel the same way.”
DJ Soul Sister
Supporter, New Orleans native
“The influence and importance of New Orleans music & culture are recognized worldwide. The Musicians' Clinic acknowledges this importance here at home by providing music makers and creators with health care, wellness programs, and advocacy services. More importantly, the NOMC offers this to patients regardless of their ability to pay or insurance status. People are what power our culture. So, to the NOMC, thank you for taking care of our people!”
Christine Ohlman
Musician & Bandleader - The Saturday Night Live Band, Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez
“I’ve worked in NOLA with many musicians in desperate need of medical care, housing, and mental health care, and I’ve seen firsthand what the Musicians’ Clinic can do to affect the quality of life for NOLA artists. They provide bedrock support from the most basic to the most sophisticated levels. Each artist is treated as a unique individual with unique needs. It’s a beautiful, warm, respectful organization, and it’s my honor to support it.”
Laurita Dollis
“Big Queen Rita” of the Wild Magnolias; Chair, Queens of the Nation Mardi Gras Indian Council
“In 2009, my late husband, the great Big Chief Bo Dollis, suffered a massive stroke. NOMC was there for my husband to care for his medical needs every step of the way until his passing in 2015. If it wasn’t for NOMC, my husband may not have lived as long as he did. It’s my goal to make sure my husband’s legacy stays alive for generations to come and to support the only non-profit organization in New Orleans dedicated to the health and wellness of our culture, NOMC.”
Amanda Hembree
NOMC Mental Health Provider, Volunteer
“NOMC appreciates and supports culture bearers like no other organization on the planet, ensuring they have access to a wide breadth of health services. As a provider, I have witnessed first hand how much access to medical and mental care offered by NOMC can take a culture bearer from barely surviving to blossoming and thriving!”
Reggie Scanlan
Musician
“I am a pancreatic cancer survivor and the Clinic has been instrumental in helping me handle a disease that is eventually terminal. The importance of the NOMC to the community can’t be overstated. Musicians, like most people know, don’t make a lot of money and often exist on the fringes. Having a place [they] can go for medical problems, it’s beyond words what it’s worth and it helps our whole community out.”