WATCH: Beyond the Bars, a Philadelphia nonprofit committed to stopping violence and uplifting the city’s youth through music, received a half million dollar award for its work in the community. Brandon Hudson has the story: on.nbc10.com/rPVro2F

Winning an accelerator grant from The Lewis Prize for Music for Music means Beyond the Bars now has $500,000 to build and grow over the next four years. For an organization that started small and has been largely volunteer-driven up to now, this is huge. thekey.xpn.org/2021/01/13/bey…

Couldn’t be more excited to be building out a music room with Youth Empowerment for Advancement Hangout at their new space! If you don’t know YEAH PHILLY is an incredible community based and student driven org that is making a huge impact in West and Southwest Philly! We are so grateful to build together!

Congrats to the team at Philly's Beyond the Bars for the $500,000 grant they received this week! Check out this interview on XPN Local for more on what they do and how they hope to grow thanks to The Lewis Prize for Music for Music. thekey.xpn.org/2021/01/13/bey…

A great column and call out from Helen Ubiñas, also a reminder of the power and essential nature of expression ⬇️ Beyond the Bars "is less about churning out musicians and more about using music to help young people impacted by violence to express themselves."

A giant thank you to The Philadelphia Inquirer for covering us winning the national award with The Lewis Prize for Music for our work with systems change #news #philadelphia #philly #music inquirer.com/opinion/trump-…

Our Summer Program is in full effect! Retro Imperfections mixing out their EP while youth leaders fixing up computers for free recording labs for students throughout our city!

Over the last year we are so grateful for the incredible support that Sony Music Group has provided Beyond the Bars. Through their incredible generosity we have been able to build over 11 musical spaces for our talented youth Sony Music Sony Music Publishing #sonyglobalsocialjusticefund