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New Music USA Organization Fund 2026 is a grant from New Music USA that funds outstanding organizations that work regularly with and support the development of music creators and artists. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations, performance groups, dance organizations, festivals, presenters, and venues that offer a crucial resource to their communities by championing new and living composers and musicians.
The program supports organizations that provide sustained engagement with music creators and serve as essential hubs for new music discovery and performance. Funding is supported by multiple foundations and government agencies, including the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Specific funding amounts are not published; awards are announced following a competitive review process.
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Applications Under Review New Music Organization Fund This program is for outstanding organizations that work regularly with, and support the development of, music creators and artists and offer a crucial resource to their community. Applications Under Review Support for New Music USA and its many programs and activities is provided by foundations, corporations, government agencies, and hundreds of individual contributors.
The Organization Fund is funded in part by Fifth House Ensemble; support for organizations in New York State are made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; support for organizations in New York City are funded in part by public funds form the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and with support from the Howard Gilman Foundation.
New Music USA acknowledges and is grateful for the support of its endowment donors, including the Mellon Foundation, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, Baisley Powell Elebash Fund, Hewlett Foundation, Fidelity Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
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Pictured above: Pictured above: Luna Lab, photo by Colleen Brostek About the New Music Organization Fund The New Music Organization Fund offers grants to non-profit organizations, performance groups, dance organizations, festivals, presenters, and venues that need support to sustain their programming of new music and/or nurturing of music creators and other artists.
This program is for outstanding organizations that work regularly with and support the development of music creators and artists and offer crucial resources to their community. The main criteria for this fund are: Artistry of applicant organization and/or supported artists. Community Value, Engagement & Impact on the community of artists and/or audiences served.
Organizational Readiness & Need: Why Now? Organizations can apply for funding through one of the following strands: General Operating Support , Creation of New Work, or Live Music for Dance projects. The average grant award is $7,000 and the maximum is $10,000.
The New Music Organization Fund application portal opens on February 19, 2026. The deadline to apply is March 19, 2026 at 11:59pm ET / 8:59pm PT. Internal notifications will be made in late June 2026, with a public announcement to follow in August.
Click here to view the program guidelines. The guidelines will also be available on the application form here . We look forward to learning more about your work!
New Music USA is offering the following services for applicants: Application Webinar – March 5, 2026, 2pm ET/11am PT – view the slides and Q&A from 3/5/26 Q&A: March 1 1 , 2026, 2pm ET/11am PT view the slides and the Q&A from 3/11/26 The Webinar and Q&A Session videos will be embedded on this page after they occur. What does the New Music Organization Fund support?
The Organization Fund has three funding areas: General Operating Support Covers general costs that support the applicant’s programming of/collaboration with US-based composers and artists. Funds specific new music projects and programs. Supports costs associated with live music performances.
For dance organizations only. Am I eligible to apply for the Organization Fund? This fund is for organizations only; individuals may not apply.
All applicants, regardless of desired funding area, must: Be based and doing work in the US, sovereign Native lands, or US territories. Have a minimum of three years of performing, programming, and budget activity at the time of the application. Have an average annual budget between $5,000 and $3 million over the past three years.
Have a dedicated organizational bank account. Not be an individual. This fund is for organizations only.
Individuals may not apply. Must have completed all previously awarded activities through New Music USA and submitted all required reporting. Must have not been an awardee of the 2025 New Music Organization Fund cycle.
2025 Organization Fund awardees will be eligible to apply again in 2027. General Operating Support applicants must: Have a commitment to producing, performing, and/or commissioning the work of living, US/territories-based music creators on a regular basis. Demonstrate commitment to working and performing in their community.
Creation of New Work/ Live Music for Dance applicant organizations must: Confirm that any newly commissioned work is entirely new; Proposals for expansions, arrangements or re-stagings of existing works are not eligible. Creators/musicians collaborating with Creation of New Work/Live Music for Dance applicants must: Be based and doing work in the US and remain so for the duration of the project.
Not be enrolled in a degree-giving program. Does my organization need to be a 501c3? No. Your organization does not need to be a 501c3 to apply.
If your organization is not a 501c3, fiscal sponsorship is also allowed and encouraged but it is not required. If my organization receives an Organization Fund award this year (2025), can we apply again in 2026? Beginning in 2026, organizations that received Organization Fund awards the previous year must wait a year before reapplying to the program.
This means that organizations that receive Organization Fund awards this cycle (2025) will be ineligible to apply in 2026 and must wait until the 2027 cycle to apply again. Where can I register for the Application Webinar and Q&A sessions? When do they take place?
Application Webinar – March 5, 2026, 2pm ET/11am PT – view the slides and Q&A from 3/5/26 Q&A: March 1 1 , 2026, 2pm ET/11am PT view the slides and the Q&A from 3/11/26 I cannot attend the Application Webinar and/or Q&A sessions live. Will they be posted anywhere to view later? Yes!
All webinar and Q&A sessions will be recorded and uploaded to the Organization Fund program page, here. What are the endorsement letters and the artistic letters of support? Do I need to submit both?
The endorsement letter and artistic letter of support are application requirements that help our panelists gauge the applicant’s impact on their community. You only need to submit one type of letter. The letter you submit depends on the program area you are applying for.
General Operating Support applicants must submit an endorsement letter, and Creation of New Work and Live Music for Dance applicants must submit an artistic letter of support . The endorsement letter is a statement of endorsement from an artist or other member of your organization’s community.
The artistic letter of support is a statement of endorsement/commitment from the creator and/or artist with whom your or ganization is collaborating on your Organization Fund project. (General Operating Support) Who should write the letter of endorsement? An artist or other member of your community: audience member, board member, stakeholder, invested supporter, partner, performer.
Please note that applicants cannot write their own endorsement letters, nor can members of the applicant organization’s staff. (General Operating Support) What should the letter of endorsement include? Please highlight the following in the letter of endorsement: Why the organization applying is important to its community.
What is unique about the organization’s activities. Why New Music USA’s support would be important to the organization now. (Creation of New Work / Live Music for Dance) Who should write the artistic letter of support?
The artistic letter of support should be written by the creator and/or musician with whom the organization is collaborating on the project they are proposing, for example: the composer the organization would like to commission. The statement should include the writer’s/writers’ role(s) in the proposed project.
For Live Music for Dance, the artistic letter of support should ideally also include a statement of endorsement/commitment from the choreographer on their project. (Creation of New Work / Live Music for Dance) What should the artistic letter of support include?
The letter should include the writer’s/writers’ role(s) in the proposed project, a statement of endorsement/commitment from the creator and/or musicians that are collaborating with the organization on the project. For Live Music for Dance: It is recommended to also include a statement from the choreographer. In which formats can the endorsement and artistic support letters be submitted?
Are there any additional formatting requirements? The letters can be submitted as PDF files, or as audio or video files. There are no additional formatting requirements.
Can my organization submit more than one letter? You may upload more than one letter, but it is not required . Can I write my own letter on behalf of my organization?
For General Operating Support, the letters should be written by someone outside of your organization. The applicant cannot be the person who writes the letter. Staff members of the applicant organization also cannot write the letter.
For Creation of New Work/ Live Music for Dance project support, the letter should come from the artists that you are planning to support with the funds if awarded. There are multiple boxes for "biography" in the application form. Which do I choose?
Please provide your organization’s bio on the application form. You may leave the individual bio box blank. That is a default contact form for all of our programs and not that important for this grant program.
You can share your bio if you’d like but it is not necessary. You can write, “see organization bio” in the first section, and just enter it in the application section. What do you mean by “current budget?
” All applicants are required to submit a budget for their organization. Please provide the budget that best represents your upcoming fiscal year, and include the amount you are requesting from the Organization Fund in your income projections. General Operating Support applicants: please share the budget for your current financial year.
Creation of New Work and Live Music For Dance applicants: please share the project budget. NOTE: There are no formatting requirements. Please share the documents you have available in your preferred format.
It can be a Quickbooks report, excel, pdf, etc. Is there any other financial information I need to provide? General Operating Support applicants must supply a recent audit or financial statement All applicants will share organizational budget totals representing the last three years. This is a simple text entry.
We are asking for fiscal numbers (income and expense totals only) for the last 3 years. See screenshot below for an example of how it looks on the application. (For General Operating Support applicants only) What do you mean by "financial statement?"
The financial statement can be: The statement from your auditor QuickBooks reports such as: an annual income statement, annual cash flow statement, annual balance sheet, or annual profit and loss An Excel sheet if that is how you keep track of your financial statement. The goal is to show you have been in operation and have a history of budgeting and programming. I am an individual artist.
Can I apply? No. The New Music Organization Fund offers grants to organizations only. Individual artists may not apply.
We offer a separate grant program, the New Music Creator Fund, which supports individuals. The next Creator Fund cycle will open in fall 2026. What are the award amounts and how much can I request?
This year we aim to fund approximately 70-80 organizations with an average award of $7,000. You can apply for up to $10,000. What kind of work samples do you require?
Please include 2 to 3 examples of your recent work that you have commissioned, performed, or presented. You may upload mp3, video or image files, or provide links to YouTube/Vimeo examples. We recommend up to 5 minutes per work sample.
You can submit any length of a work sample, however, if you are submitting longer works, please write suggested start and end times to view/listen. Creation of New Work and Live Music for Dance applicants: be sure to include a work sample of the music creator and/or musicians you are planning to work with. FAQs about endorsement letters and letters of commitment Here is what the application asks for in regard to endorsements.
Each funding area has different requirements. General Operating Suppor t – Community Endorsement Letter A statement of endorsement from an artist or other member of your community (e.g. audience member, board member, invested supporter, partner, performer). Please highlight: Why the organization applying is important to its community.
What is unique about the organization’s activities. Why New Music USA’s support would be important to the organization now. Creation of New Work and Live Music for Dance – Artistic Letter of Support A statement of endorsement/commitment from the creator and/or musicians that are collaborating with the organization on the project.
The statement should include the writer’s/writers’ role(s) in the proposed project. For Live Music for Dance : It is recommended to also include a statement from the choreographer. The letters can be written or submitted as an audio or video file.
There are no formatting requirements. You can upload more than 1 but it is not required. What do panelists consider when evaluating Organization Fund applications?
Artistry : As demonstrated by the quality of the submitted music examples; artistry of the organization’s programming including creators, and/or musicians involved. Is the music programmed original and distinctive? Is the organization supporting the creative development of music creators and artists?
Does the program and artistic exploration feel relevant and considered?
Does it communicate unique perspective(s), inviting the viewer to explore new ideas Community Value, Engagement & Impact: The organization’s impact on the community of artists and audiences it serves; history of regular and ongoing performance, programming, and engagement of living creators; evidence of programming that reflects and resonates with the organization’s community Organizational Readiness & Need: Why Now?
How would your organization use New Music USA’s support, and why is it important to have now? How will this grant help your organization achieve a goal or project, or navigate a transition? How will the organization or artists involved benefit from New Music USA’s support?
What happens after I submit my application? New Music USA staff will first screen applications for completeness and eligibility. Applications will then enter a peer review process: 25-30 independent panelists from around the country will evaluate the applications and determine the awardees.
At least 3 panelists will assess every application. Panelists will review each application against the criteria listed below providing a score that will then be averaged to create a ranked list. Award determinations will be made using the ranked list, considering any funding restrictions as needed.
We will notify everyone about the status of their application by late June. Applications will be evaluated based on artistry, community value, engagement & impact, and organizational readiness & need, outlined below. Artistry : As demonstrated by the quality of the submitted music examples; artistry of the organization’s programming including creators, and/or musicians involved.
Community Value, Engagement & Impact: The organization’s impact on the community of artists and audiences it serves; history of regular and ongoing performance, programming, and engagement of living creators; evidence of programming that reflects and resonates with the organization’s community Organizational Readiness & Need: Why Now? How would your organization use New Music USA’s support, and why is it important to have now?
How will this grant help your organization achieve a goal or project, or navigate a transition? How will the organization or artists involved benefit from New Music USA’s support? By when must activity funded by this program take place?
Are there different requirements for the three funding areas? The timelines for funded activity differ slightly for the three funding areas: General Support funds must be used between July 2026-June 2027. Creation of New Work and Live Music for Dance funds must be used between July 2026-June 2028, based on the organization’s project timeline.
Applications will only be accepted through our online application on SMAPPLY. Access the application here: https://newmusicusa. smapply.
io. Email submissions will not be considered. My video work sample isn’t loading and/or I can’t see my video when I preview my application, what happened?
What happened, and what do I do? If you are uploading video work samples please prioritize . mp4 videos, using the most up to date software you have, as they will embed more seamlessly.
If you are providing links to YouTube or Vimeo please be sure to provide “embed” links or conversely make sure your links are public. If you are providing links to password protected work samples, please make sure that you provide the password in the description of the work or at the tail end of your narrative, otherwise the panel will not be able to access your samples. Please limit the file size to under 500MB.
If you’d like to share a larger file, please upload it to YouTube or Vimeo and share a link instead. Please note, Youtube links must be submitted in the ‘ youtube. com/xxx ‘ format, not ‘youtu .
be /xxx’ format. To copy your link in the correct format, open the youtu. be format link in any browser and copy the full youtube.
com link from your browser navigation bar. How do I contact you if I have questions? Due to the high volume of applications we receive, New Music USA is only able to provide email assistance for technical issues with the application site.
For help with your application the following services will be available: Application Webinar – March 5, 2026, 2pm ET/11am PT – view the slides and Q&A from 3/5/26 Q&A: March 1 1 , 2026, 2pm ET/11am PT view the slides and the Q&A from 3/11/26 We strongly encourage all applicants to watch (live or by viewing on demand) the Organization Fund Application Webinar , which will take place on March 5, 2026, from 2-3pm ET, as well as the Q&A session on March 11 at 2pm ET Due to the high volume of applications we receive, New Music USA will only be able to provide email support for technical issues with the application portal.
A recording of the webinar will be available on the program page for those who cannot attend in real time. All applicants must read the Organization Fund FAQs. , which provide answers to most questions.
All Webinar and Q & A sessions will be recorded and uploaded to this page. If you have a technical issue with the application site, email [email protected] with “Technical Issue” in the subject line. Due to the high volume of applications, New Music USA is not able to : Accept applications after the stated deadline of March 19, 2026 at 11:59pm ET.
Consider or inform applicants of incomplete or improperly submitted applications. Provide feedback on grant applications. Notifications and any communications about your application will be made via email from our application site.
Please add [email protected] to your address book to ensure you receive these communications. If my organization is awarded a grant, what are the reporting requirements? You will be required to document grant-funded activities, keep records of expenses, and submit documentation and receipts.
You will be required to submit a final report or update on funded activities by July 2027.
2025 Organization Fund Awardees - General Operating Support American Composers Orchestra The American Composers Orchestra (ACO) is a national discovery and development pipeline for new orchestral music, focused on bringing the full spectrum of American music to orchestral stages, providing a gateway to the orchestral composition and performance process, and amplifying the expressive power of orchestral music to enable a vibrant future for all Americans.
We've made incredible strides over the past 4+ decades, and we are just getting started. Ars Nova Workshop cultivates connection and curiosity through deep listening, improvisation, and joyous creative expression. We are building a community of artists and audiences who find liberation and connection through creative music—a community that embraces the wisdom of improvisation and integrates it into how we live and grow together.
We are building a future where our community recognizes, honors, and advances the central role of Black creativity, culture, and experience in expanding creative music and reverberating art forms.
Known for its collaborative spirit, Art of Elan has been pioneering unique events and bringing exciting classical music to diverse audiences for over 18 years through innovative partnerships and bi-national initiatives that have cultivated curious audiences on both sides of the border, with numerous commissioning projects, multidisciplinary productions, and thoughtful community engagement programs.
Funding from New Music USA will help support Audium’s artist residency and featured artist programs. These programs commission local Bay Area artists to create original works of spatial sound and new media. With New Music USA’s help, these programs continue to grow to support more artists and pay them a living wage.
Bergamot Quartet is an NYC-based string quartet dedicated to the evolution of chamber music. They are sought-after interpreters of contemporary music who are expanding the definition of the string quartet genre by leveraging their skills as a classically trained ensemble with their enthusiasm for learning from and adapting to creative artists across a variety of genres.
Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra Based in Philadelphia, the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra was established as a model for the 21st-century American orchestra. Described by the Philadelphia Inquirer as “first-class on every level,” Black Pearl's musicians have been trained at leading music conservatories around the globe including the Curtis Institute, the Juilliard School, and the Peabody Institute, among others.
Founded by award-winning Artistic Director Jeri Lynne Johnson, Black Pearl’s mission is to transform the orchestra from the gatekeeper to an artistic product into a facilitator of the creative process for the entire community. A 10-time NEA grant winner, and three-time Knight Arts Challenge grantee, Black Pearl creates excellent and highly-impactful programs that connect countries, cultures, and communities in exciting ways.
Bloomingdale School of Music Bloomingdale School of Music is a diverse, joyful, and multi-generational community on the Upper West Side. Our mission is to provide open access to high-quality music education for all, regardless of economic status, ability level, gender, ethnicity, or religious affiliation. Our desire is to instill a lifelong love of music through programs, partnerships, and performances.
Bowerbird is a Philadelphia based non-profit organization that shares music, dance, film, and related art forms with audiences at locations across the region. We love presenting interesting, beautiful, and unconventional music in beautiful, and unconventional music spaces.
Our mission is to expand public understanding of Experimental music, moving away from simplistic tropes such as “cutting edge” or “contemporary,” and instead striving to engage with experimentalism as a timeless and recurrent artistic practice. Brooklyn Americana Music Festival 11th Annual Brooklyn Americana Music Festival September 18 - 21, 2025.
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Hailed as “a utopian dream… [at] the cutting-edge of classical music” (The Nation), ChamberQUEER highlights LGBTQ+ voices in contemporary & historical music and reimagines the classical concert experience as a radically inclusive gathering space & musical community for the 21st century.
We interrogate and experiment with, or “queer,” European art music’s presumed necessities and existing norms: by crafting new narratives from the canon, democratizing performance etiquette and dress, and shattering the performer-audience binary, we create a fresh and inviting environment for a new generation of music lovers.
Choral Arts Initiative is an award-winning Southern California ensemble advancing choral music through bold performances, Billboard-charting albums, and a nationally recognized incubator and accelerator program for composers. With over 100 premieres and 25 commissions, Choral Arts Initiative champions living composers through collaboration, performance, education, and recording. New Music Starts Here.
Continuum Culture & Arts, Inc. Continuum Culture & Arts, Inc. (CCA) supports the creation of innovative world-class music, the people who make it, and the communities that surround it.
CCA is active across the US and abroad in presentation, collaboration with people in historically marginalized and vulnerable communities, commissioning, oral history, international cultural exchange, media production, and in cultivating the field by incubating the projects of aligned artists and organizations.
Long welcoming musical dreamers and game-changing innovators, Copland House champions America’s vibrant cultural legacy, and uniquely embraces the entire artistic process.
From creation and development to study, presentation, and preservation, its acclaimed programs resonate far beyond its walls, and are built upon multifaceted composer support, live and recorded performances, educational and mentoring activities, and community engagement.
Creative Music Studio engages musicians and listeners from all backgrounds to deepen and broaden their musical sensitivity, expression and understanding through workshops, recordings, and concerts in New York City, Brooklyn, Hudson Valley, and worldwide. CMS’s programming focuses partnerships that engage a diverse, intergenerational community of artists and celebrate marginalized voices in creative music.
A leading force in 21st century music, the Del Sol Quartet believes music can and should happen anywhere, fostering conversation and connection. Next season includes the “Facing the Moon” premiere, exploring the Chinese female diaspora experience, with composers Theresa Wong, Meilina Tsui, Vivian Fung, and SF Poet Laureate Genny Lim.
The Earshot Jazz organization supports the creative continuum of jazz, celebrating its Black-American heritage and its global progression as a cultural force. For over four decades, Earshot Jazz has been a cornerstone of Seattle's cultural landscape, cultivating a dynamic ecosystem that supports and celebrates jazz in all its vibrant expressions.
Ensemble Decipher is a modular, experimental music group that performs with vintage, contemporary, and emerging technologies. The ensemble strives to redefine performer virtuosity by drawing on the technological advancements of our time to highlight new voices and ways of listening.
Current members include Joseph Bohigian, Robert Cosgrove, Eric Lemmon, Chelsea Loew, Taylor Long, and Niloufar Nourbakhsh Ethel’s Foundation for the Arts Experiential Orchestral (EXO) brings audiences close to the music by engaging listeners through imaginative, immersive, and interactive concert experiences driven by an expansive sense of welcome and belonging.
EXO’s world premiere recording of Julia Perry’s Violin Concerto and music of Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, with soloist and composer Curtis Stewart, was nominated for two Grammy® Awards in 2025. Experiential Orchestral (EXO) brings audiences close to the music by engaging listeners through imaginative, immersive, and interactive concert experiences driven by an expansive sense of welcome and belonging.
EXO’s world premiere recording of Julia Perry’s Violin Concerto and music of Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, with soloist and composer Curtis Stewart, was nominated for two Grammy® Awards in 2025. Experimental Sound Studio Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) is an artist-driven non-profit dedicated to the curation, evolution, and exploration of sound.
For 39 years ESS has nurtured avant-garde artists through production, presentation, education, and preservation. Today, ESS works both as an organizer and as a collection of community-directed resources for artists creating new work. Experiments in Opera is an artist-led company that opens up the boundaries of opera by supporting and guiding an inclusive group of artists, musicians, composers, and librettists to expand their craft.
Our company positions new operas in a context shaped by our artist leaders and their work. Experiments in Opera's 2025-2026 season includes new operas from 12 composers and librettists. Found Sound Nation is a cultural arts nonprofit that designs spaces for co-creation and creative exchange between artists and communities.
Our mission is to facilitate joyful and authentic artistic processes that set the stage for adventurous collaboration, cultivate genuine connection, and center our individual and collective humanity. Our programs build mutual understanding and positive change through collaborative music-making and creative exchange. Freer Records is the first record label in the United States for prison-impacted musicians.
Our mission is to build the careers of our artists so their work is widely heard, uncensored, and upholding of their humanity. By recording, producing, and releasing music by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated musicians, we strive to democratize access to cultural power, for all people and communities affected by incarceration.
Grand Canyon Music Festival The Grand Canyon Music Festival is a pioneering chamber music festival with innovative programming and education projects in a magnificent world heritage site whose mission is to enhance the Grand Canyon experience by presenting world-class music in Grand Canyon National Park and in outreach programs to schools in rural and Native American communities.
The Hyde Park Jazz Festival is a collaborative platform dedicated to supporting the presentation and ongoing development of jazz, particularly on the South Side of Chicago.
We do this by creating opportunities for a broad community of listeners to engage with the music and its creators, and by working with artists, organizational partners, and networks to celebrate the rich tradition of jazz and to support the development of new work and ideas.
Grammy award-winning Imani Winds was founded in 1997 with the mission to show people of color performing at the highest level and to serve as role models for people of all ages, backgrounds, and ethnicities. In 2019, they incorporated as Imani Winds Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, to create meaningful connections through music.
Imani Winds’ programs highlight new music by Black and Brown composers and artists outside of the western classical tradition. Through the Legacy Commissioning Project, they have commissioned 58 works from composers of color. The ensemble is the faculty wind quintet at Curtis Institute of Music.
In 2010, they established the Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival, an annual contemporary chamber music institute and concert series. In 2023, they established Imani Winds Media, which assists musicians of color in the creation of recordings, podcasts, and videos and serves as the producer and home of Imani Winds’ media. Le Mondo is an artist-run
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Nonprofit organizations, performance groups, dance organizations, festivals, presenters, and venues that work regularly with and support music creators. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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