a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, has created and supported fifteen music school programs across eleven developing countries: Imvula Music Program, Gugulethu, South Africa Bizung School of Music & Dance, Tamale, Ghana Udayapur Nepal Music Program, Udayapur District, Nepal Ecole de Musique de Kirina, Kirina, Mali Tintale Village Mother's Society, Nepal Ubuntu Music Program, Kigali, Rwanda Mitrata Nepal Village Music Program, Kathmandu, Nepal Musica Music Institute, Kathmandu, Nepal Khlong Toey Music Program, Bangkok, Thailand Cajuru Music Program, Curitiba, Brazil Mirpur Music Program, Dhaka, Bangladesh Joudour Sahara Music Program, M'Hamid El Ghizlane, Morocco Playing For Change Patagonia, Patagonia, Argentina Baja Musical Arts Intensive, Tijuana, Mexico PFC Diamante, Argentina Diamante, Argentina In 2011, the Playing For Change Foundation established an annual Playing For Change Day. The goal of Playing For Change Day is to "unite a global community through the power of music to affect positive social change". In 2012, the PFC Day consisted of over 330 events across 52 countries and helped raise over $150,000 for the Playing For Change Foundation, and in 2014, PFC Day saw over 400 events in 60 countries. It is held on the Saturday nearest the United Nations' International Day of Peace, which takes place each year on September 21. In 2015, Playing for Change Day was celebrated on September 19. The sixth-annual Playing for Change Day was on September 24, 2016. In 2019, the Playing For Change Foundation was awarded the Polar Music Prize. Discography See also World music Street performance References External links Playing For Change Foundation 4,036,204 views American world music groups Musical groups established in 2002 Arts foundations based in the United States Educational foundations in the United States Street performance Performances 2008 in music 2009 albums Asia Game Changer Award winners