Songwriter Residency at America SCORES

Pictured is ASCAP Songwriter Roberto Poveda writing songs with America SCORES students from P.S. 180 Hugo Newman and P.S. 161 Don Pedro Abizu Campos Elementary Schools in New York City.

America SCORES, an after-school program that uses poetry and soccer to inspire literacy, healthy living and civic responsibility among urban youth, has partnered with The ASCAP Foundation to present a new program, ASCAP Songwriter Residency @ America SCORES. The new program is designed to provide an engaging and inspiring way for kids to express themselves through songwriting, while teaching them to value and respect their own creative work and that of others. Those writers who have participated to date include hiphop songwriter Lysette Titi, Americana-rock songwriter John Francis, children's music creators Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer and Latin music songwriter Roberto Poveda.

THE ASCAP SONGWRITER RESIDENCY @ AMERICA SCORES EVENT WAS POWERED BY NATIVE ENERGY: Working with Native Energy, we calculated the CO2 emissions this event would generate from the electricity in the classrooms, to the travel by car bus or subway of all of the students, teachers and staff involved. It was three tons of Carbon. We offset these C02 emissions through the purchase of clean, renewable wind energy credits from Native Energy.