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The IAJE Goes Under
The IAJE Goes Under
Date Posted: May 06 2008
Written By: Chicago Jazz
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The IAJE (International Association of Jazz Educators) board of directors have voted to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 of the Federal Bankruptcy Law and closed their doors on April 18. IAJE as it presently stands will no longer exist.
The financial trouble appears to have come from years of IAJE's dependence upon their annual conference as a primary but unreliable revenue stream and the launch of a well-intentioned capital campaign (the Campaign for Jazz), which generated a meager response but required considerable expenditures in advance of contributions. Sadly, the attendance at the conference in Toronto, the lowest in ten years, exacerbated an already critical situation, depriving the association of the cash flow needed to continue daily operations as well as the time needed to seek alternative resources.
There is speculation that local IAJE chapters, which are independent entities (separate corporate entitles or voluntary associations with their own boards, constitutions and bylaws) may step up and carry on some aspects of the IAJE mission of promoting jazz education. The 2009 IAJE International Conference in Seattle has been cancelled. There has been some discussion of holding a regional conference, but no concrete plans exist at this time.
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