What is Munify all about?
We're a philanthropic Music organisation, launching soon!
Our vision is to enable hard-working musicians to make a living from their passion and continue to give us listeners those rare moments of beauty when we feel their work in our soul.
Munify is for individuals but it’s also for community. Munify is for creating a community that uses music for the benefit of humankind by supporting music charities in a big way.
Munify is a new way for music fans to back the music they love. We will be launching an app and streaming music site where you can discover, listen to and support music for $1.50 a month. You can also support the musicians you love directly with another $1.50 per month patronage.
Why Should I Support Munify?
- We're about rebalancing the music industry
- You can make a real difference to the lives of struggling musicians today by pledging your support to Munify.
- It's just $1.50 per month to sign up and $1.50 per month per artist you support so, and if enough people get on board, there will be a future for many artists, and not just the few at the top of the pile
- We will give 50% of our subscription revenue to music charities who nurture music in the world – not to record company exec’s or wealthy shareholders.
- You'll get to hear tons of music that’s off the radar, support deserving artists and play your part in shaping a new direction in the creative arts.
- We support artists in multiple ways; direct payments, additional payment for every fan they bring to Munify, streaming royalties, employment opportunities funded by Munify.
What makes Munify Unique?
We care primarily about people not profit. So our goals are to pay artists properly, support good causes, and bring fantastic music to our listeners for a low subscription in a transparent business model! Listeners know where their dollars are going, primarily to artists and music causes! The rest will go to running the business and making Munify viable. We have built into our constitution a maximum salary so we know the profits will take care of themselves, we can properly reward any future partners, and we can give even more to music causes.
1. We are structured as a Social Enterprise.
This means that our primary motivation and reason for existence is to support artists and use music to do good in the world.
It's true that if you want music, you can find it on Spotify, on Apple Music and on Soundcloud.
We're different because:
- Your hard earned cash DIRECTLY supports artists you love via Patronage, not Pay Per Play. It's a true way to give money directly to artists you love.
- Its low cost no ads - Only $1.50 per month. We want to make it simple for people to support music and DO THE RIGHT THING!
- We support music charities and organisations by giving 50% of our revenue to these organisations to foster music in the world!
2. We created The Munify Artist Fund.
We will allocate $3 per subscription to an artists fund to pay artists whose fans sign up and to employ artists to work on projects for any music organisation who is registered with Munify.
3. We share our profits with Charity Partners.
Munify believes in supporting artists throughout their journey including in times of strife and difficulty. That's why we've hooked up with Support Act, a registered charity established to provide a safety net for music professionals facing hardship. A career in music can be uncertain and risky. Even the most talented find themselves unable to work when illness, injury or some other problem strikes. Without an income, a setback can quickly become a crisis. We will give $2 of every $18 subscription to Support Act.
Our second foundation organisation is The Human Sound Project, a global peace and music project that empowers groups of all sizes, cultures and musical skill levels to come together and create new songs about their stories. Creating music together is one of humankind’s most powerful ways to connect people from different backgrounds or diverse musical abilities. A group gathers, shares their stories and inspired by these stories make simple “human sounds” (whistling, stomping, clapping, singing, shouting, and talking) to form a new song. The song, a musical reflection of the group’s “collective story”, is then gifted back to the group and can be shared with the wider-community to inspire, educate, and transform.
When you sign up to Munify The Human Sound Project will benefit from a similar share of the subscription enabling them to continue their amazing work of uniting people through music.
As we grow we will add many other music charities and organisations and Munify members will be able to select the organisation they would like their contribution to go to. We will work globally to support them to use music to bring communities together and change lives.
How can you help Munify?
We decided to crowdfund as we believe there are thousands of people who not only share our love of music but value it as highly as we do. Our dream is to use its capacity for transformation in the world and not as a commodity that benefits the few. So:
- Just a little cash could go a long way! Our aim is to realise our first membership goal of 5000, so contribute $20 and your annual subscription awaits you!
- If you can, contribute more. Be a significant part of bringing positive change to the world through music!
- Tell your friends about Munify and about our crowdfunding campaign!
OUR PROGRESS SO FAR
Much hard work has been done already by our team of two, our founder Susan Jersky and creative director, Pete Griffin. We have hooked up with our two wonderful foundation music organisations, The Human Sound Project and Support Act who do amazing work to support music and musicians. Even at this early stage, due to support from our first group of Munify members, we have been able to give over $500 to these organisations. The technology and the music is in place, we have a great website, we've done the groundwork needed to build a solid business, gained a growing number of supporters world wide and everywhere we turn people are telling us how great they think Munify is. So we're at a point now where we're asking people to assist us to raise the funds needed to make this possible and bring Munify to fruition.
LATEST NEWS
We are very excited to tell you here that our future streaming partner is a world leader, providing their streaming platform to many of the major streaming sites in the world! We are going to be working closely with them so we can go LIVE with Munify next year, with a world class streaming site and iOS and Android Apps.
