The mission of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is to improve the quality of people’s lives through grants supporting the performing arts, environmental conservation, medical research and the prevention of child abuse, and through preservation of the cultural and environmental legacy of Doris Duke’s properties.

Jazz.NEXT is a national jazz initiative designed to support jazz artists, organizations and presenters through innovative approaches using technology. Berklee College of Music is the proud recipient of a Jazz.NEXT grant to utilize new online technologies to extend the reach of the annual Berklee High School Jazz Festival to a year-round, interactive, web-based “cyber association” of high school jazz instructors and students. Jazz.NEXT support is enabling the development of a new open-source interactive website – berkleejazz.org - featuring online access to student/faculty rehearsal clinics, performance and instructional webcasts and artist/instructor profiles, and streaming of festival performances, among other content.

This project is funded by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, through the generous support of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation supports the richness and diversity of the region’s arts resources and promotes wider access to the art and artists of the region, nation and world.