The Sound Of Transformation
Rock to Recovery funds music-session scholarships for underserved communities that couldn't otherwise access them — powered by events built for those communities and the awareness they raise.
Music is the medicineSince 2012
Founded by Wes Geer — Hed P.E. · former touring guitarist, Korn
Donor-funded. Scholarship sessions for nonprofit and government programs serving underserved communities.
// The mission in three moves
A flywheel. Each stage feeds the next.
Sessions lead. They are the primary mission and the thing donations fund.
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Fund Music Sessions
We provide the rhythm to help you find your groove.
Donations put a professional JAM Master in the room — a group writes, plays, and records an original song, start to finish, in a single session. Sessions are awarded as need-based scholarships to communities that can't pay, never sold at a discount. BandJAM performs every one.
See the sessions - 02
Host Community Events
We bring the community together.
Our annual benefit and community events are built for the communities we serve — bringing them, the artist community, and donors into the same room.
See the events - 03
Create Awareness
We turn the volume up on mental health.
Events, PR, speaking, and press — turning the volume up on mental health, and on music as the medicine, in the communities that hear it least.
See the awareness work
↻ Each stage feeds the next — sessions create the stories that build awareness, awareness fills the events, and events fund more sessions.
// Backstage
Three focus areas. Wherever healing has to be real.
A 501(c)(3) funding music-session scholarships in the country's toughest rooms — every session performed by BandJAM. We serve nonprofit and government organizations only; corporate and private-pay experiences come from our sister organization, BandJAM.
Addiction & Mental Health Recovery
Music groups inside treatment for substance use, mental health, eating disorders, and co-occurring conditions.
See programsVeterans & Wounded Warriors
VA hospitals, spinal injury and TBI units, and the Air Force Wounded Warrior program.
See programsYouth & Schools
School partnerships, juvenile justice, foster care, and community shelters.
See programs
// Voices from the room
Zine cuts. Real words.
“Since being involved in Rock to Recovery, my life has been so awesome. I have over 5 years sober, I have a home and my son living with me, plus I have purpose now.”
“Rock to Recovery has provided a supportive and healing program. Working with them has been one of the best therapies I've experienced in the recovery spectrum.”
“From team building to opening up minds, I've seen this non-profit open doors that medicine just can't do.”
/ / / As heard on the road / / /
// The book
Music as a catalyst for human transformation.
By Wes Geer & Constance Scharff, PhD — eighteen true stories of transformation from inside our sessions.
“These stories about the work Rock to Recovery does proves just how powerful music can be as a healing force.”
/ / / Trusted by leading nonprofit watchdogs / / /
// Fuel the amp
$125 puts a JAM Master in a room.
Every gift funds sessions and instruments for people who need them most — in treatment centers, VA programs, and schools across the country.
$125
One scholarship session.
A group writes, plays, and records an original song, start to finish.
$1,500
A year of monthly sessions.
Twelve sessions for one program, so the group becomes a routine rather than a visit.
$6,250
Fifty sessions.
Enough to underwrite a full scholarship cycle for a veterans or community program.
Direct
Designate your gift.
Choose the community you want to reach — veterans, recovery programs, youth.
Every gift is matched — $125 in-kind from BandJAM and a $100 co-pay from the recipient ride along with yours.
501(c)(3) — EIN 46-2782110 · Donations tax-deductible