PTNA launches "PTNA CrossGiving Project" to encourage music-related donations as the match-maker between contributors and beneficiaries.
PTNA introduces individuals/ institutions to donors, give suggestions, and discloses the collective information of donators, destinations and amounts. On the other hands, PTNA will make administrative and promotional supports for those individuals/ institutions in order to get them know better and clearer to people.

This project arises in the needs of active participation of people to the "public" sphere, which has been totally left to the hands of the government. The "new public" scheme allows private companies / NPOs to be in the public sectors and make use of various ideas to bring necessities and services more effectively to those who are in need.

Likewise, PTNA is willing to form the "new public" firmly in the current music world. We believe that the face-to-face contributions will bring money to the specific activities more effectively and efficiently. Therefore, PTNA will occasionally support a part of their administrative works so as to satisfy the prerequisites; disclosure of information, presentation of publicness, appropriate allocation of contributions to the actual expenses, etc.

Then, how to engage yourself in this project? Simple. You just designate the beneficiaries from the list on the PTNA website, through which anyone can look into the activities of the individuals/corporations/ institutions that belong to this project. Here is the past record since March 2011 (11,564,363yen in total).

To enhance this project, PTNA is making a variety of proposals. For instance, recipients of "PTNA teachers' prize" (10,000yen) can declare to give it to certain funds, and in this case PTNA will give additional 10,000yen on to the contribution. Since last March, 125 recipients donated to the fund called "Piano Donations for Japan Disaster Affected Public Schools", which resulted in the amount of 2,500,000yen in total.

At present, PTNA introduces a few more funds; "Yasuko Fukuda Scholarship Foundation" (scholarship for young promising pianists),  "Kokoro no Fukko Ongaku Kikin (Fund for mental recovery after March 11) etc.  Besides, various new ideas are coming up now; for example, supporting new compositions of ensemble pieces, dispatching pianists to public school concerts in wider areas, sending unused instruments to developing countries and dispatching skilled instructors, supporting artists who make research on unknown but important composers, etc. Let's see if and how it works!