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The Mockingbird Foundation is a non-profit organization founded by Phish fans in 1996 to generate charitable proceeds from the Phish community.
And since we're entirely volunteer – with no office, salaries, or paid staff – administrative costs are less than 2% of revenues! So far, we've distributed over $2 million to support music education for children – hundreds of grants in all 50 states, with more on the way.
Hard to knock anyone giving to a worthwhile charity like Mockingbird, but does it have to be glow sticks? I'm just glad this guy doesn't sell motor oil and isn't asking us to pour a quart down the aisle during set break.
But I will say this $300.00 to get on the first page of phish.net is a good deal considering
"Phish.net incurs considerable costs to allow up to 30,000 users to access this site at the same time during shows without "crashing", and provides somewhere on the order of a million pageviews per month during Phish's tours. These are impressive statistics for any website, even "corporate" or "commercial" sites."
So as a fan of the band and a fan of going to their concerts I say donate to Mockingbird by the bucketful. I encourage every business to tie in to each show. Come to think of it why didn't Hanes™ get in on this "white out" for the 29th? Come to think of it why don't they? At least I don't have to dodge things when people wear specific clothing.
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