About Marching Mountains

Vision

Marching Mountains’ vision is to see a child become something more than that child would have become because an instrument found its way into their hands; to see band programs across Appalachia become more successful because band directors are working together using technology to share ideas and resources; to see local communities hold events that benefit their bands because they’ve seen a child with an instrument believe in themselves and now they believe more in their community.

Mission Statement

Marching Mountains organizes at the grassroots level while creating and leveraging Internet technology to empower our networks of involved people. Marching Mountains seeks grants and corporate sponsorship in addition to fundraising to provide resources, grants and scholarships to aid music programs at public middle schools and high schools in distressed counties in Appalachia. Marching Mountains promotes and organizes instrument drives to put instruments in the hands of children in Appalachia who have a desire to participate in music.

Official

Marching Mountains is a project of Millions of Angels. Millions of Angels is a nonprofit corporation filed under Minnesota Statues Chapter 317A. The corporation was founded December 2nd, 2008. Millions of Angels has 501(c)(3) status with the IRS. Donations made to the Marching Mountains project are deductible on U.S. federal income tax forms.

Read the Articles of Incorporation

Board of Directors

Ian Felton
Executive Director
Millions of Angels

Dr. Jason Johannesen
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Yale University, Department of Psychiatry 

Shana Song
Master of Industrial and Labor Relations
Cornell University

Sarah Graham
Executive Director
Scott's Run Settlement House
Osage, West Virginia

V. 'Polly' Reyna
President
Light the Way Foundation, Inc.