It is with great pleasure that we announce our five finalists for the 2017 Adolf Busch Award. Narrowing the field to these five was no easy task due to the quality of the applications that we received, and the truly inspirational work being done by so many organizations. Thank you to all who applied.

The five finalists are:

Afghanistan Institute of Music – anim-music.org

Musicians Without Borders – musicianswithoutborders.org

Panzi Foundation – panzifoundation.org/#home

Refugee Orchestra Project – refugeeorchestraproject.org

Shropshire Foundation –   shropshirefoundation.org

Congratulations to these five and to all of the organizations doing such meaningful work to make our world a better place.

The organization chosen to receive the Award will be announced in January, 2017.