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This project serves to compile, preserve, and protect encyclopedic information about Phish and their music.
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The Mockingbird Foundation is a non-profit organization founded by Phish fans in 1996 to generate charitable proceeds from the Phish community.
And since we're entirely volunteer – with no office, salaries, or paid staff – administrative costs are less than 2% of revenues! So far, we've distributed over $2 million to support music education for children – hundreds of grants in all 50 states, with more on the way.
We rely on people to step forward to volunteer to recap a show they're planning to attend. Sometimes it's been difficult to get a recapper for a show and in fact some shows in recent years were not recapped for this site at all, because no one bothered to step forward to recap it. I mention this now only because were we to require recappers to follow a particular "template," this may discourage some fans from bothering to volunteer to recap a show, and it would certainly discourage creativity, at least in my opinion. And I'd much rather there be a recap that challenges (or even offends) some fans now and then, if only in part, than that every recap proceed within the strictures of a "template" or set of guidelines (especially if designed to restrain a recapper from negatively characterizing the music performed in that recapper's opinion).