A Letter from the Board of Directors of the Bob Moog Foundation

"Celebrating great strides in 2009; building momentum in 2010
With your help we can continue to make an impact in science education and historical preservation.

Sincere best wishes to you for a happy, healthy and prosperous 2010 from all of us at The Bob Moog Foundation. While many folks are understandably glad putting the old year behind them, we proudly count 2009 as a good one for the foundation and Bob’s rich legacy. As a result, our New Year is less about making a fresh start as it is about building momentum. To that end, we need your support.

The Bob Moog Foundation exists to educate and inspire hearts and minds – young and old - around the intersection of music, science and innovation. The frontier of electronic music Bob Moog laid open to the world invites the brand of curiosity and creativity essential to generating answers for 21st-century challenges.

We have ambitious plans to nurture that kind of thinking and to celebrate the power and possibilities of electronic music. Thankfully, many others share those aspirations.

In 2009:

*The Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority gave $600,000 to help establish a Bob Moog Museum, or Moogseum, in Asheville. Costing more than $3-million, The Moogseum will serve as one of the world’s most innovative artistic and community development spaces.

*Hundreds turned out for the second Enter the Mind of Moog fundraiser and launch of a permanent MiniMoogseum at the Orange Peel in Asheville. Thousands more will interact with the display each month and explore its custom-built theremin.

*The GRAMMY Foundation gave $15,000 towards restoring precious reel-to-reel tapes from the Bob Moog archives.

*The Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, CA invited our support in staging Waves of Inspiration: The Legacy of Moog, which runs through April. Drawn largely from Bob's historical and extensive archives, this major exhibit is expected to garner national media attention and attract more than 15,000 visitors.

*Hundreds of individuals wrote checks, shared ideas and lent their muscle to generate a collective and critical mass that makes us more excited than ever about the possibilities and reach of what lies ahead.

We bow and thank those of you who have sown the seeds of success to date. We look forward to your continued faith and invite new supporters to join the Bob Moog Foundation community. Gifts of time, talent and treasure are all are needed, not only for future goals but to maintain current programs and services such as the Student Outreach Program, the Archive Preservation Initiative, planning for the Moogseum and our web interface, MoogFoundation.org.

The latter is a great window on the work of the foundation, where we’re headed and how we plan to get there. Please take a look and then act on the inspiration you find. It will be a sound investment in every sense.

If you have not done so already, we ask that you make a year-end, tax-deductible gift today that will allow us to nurture our programs and Bob's legacy in such a way that his impact will be felt by many generations to come.

Many thanks for your support and consideration.


Sincerely,

The Board of Directors of The Bob Moog Foundation

Ileana Grams-Moog (Chair)
Professor of Philosophy Emerita, UNC-Asheville

Mike Adams (Vice-chair)
President, Moog Music, Inc.

Erin Rafalowski (Secretary)
Manager, WriteMind Institute

Kathy Davis (Treasurer)
Certified Public Accountant

Ashley Capps,
Owner, AC Entertainment

Steven Heller
Owner, Upstream Productions

David Huskins
Director of Development, Brevard Music Center

Sean McDonald
Founder, Jute Networks

Bill Sautter
Chairman, Galaxy Venture Capital

Stu Zonder
Owner, Zonder Productions"