Music That Shaped Us
This Giving Season, we’re celebrating the soundtrack of our Up with People lives, the music, the friendships, and the moments that shaped who we are today. Those songs didn’t just fill the air; they carved pathways in us, taught us how to listen, how to lead, and how to lift each other up.
Music is still our shared language. And this season’s projects all center on that same magic, some helping young singers find their courage, creating space for connection, and others welcoming alumni back into harmony with one another.
We’d love for you to follow along, hear the stories, and jump in wherever your heart gets that familiar tug. There are so many meaningful ways to take part. Your presence, your voice, your memories, and your support all make the chorus stronger.
Music is still our shared language. And this season’s projects all center on that same magic, some helping young singers find their courage, creating space for connection, and others welcoming alumni back into harmony with one another.
We’d love for you to follow along, hear the stories, and jump in wherever your heart gets that familiar tug. There are so many meaningful ways to take part. Your presence, your voice, your memories, and your support all make the chorus stronger.
Where the Music Continues
Cologne, Germany
Help young people experience the joy of performing together at their first public concert this spring.
Your support helps keep the concert free and open to more youth, while covering the costs to make this performance possible.
Your support helps keep the concert free and open to more youth, while covering the costs to make this performance possible.
Harrisonburg, Virginia
This summer, Camp Horizons invites campers ages 11–14 to spend two unforgettable weeks at Camp UpBeat, from July 5 to July 18, 2026. This program focuses on building confidence, community, and cultural awareness through music.
Your support helps sustain and strengthen this program.
Your support helps sustain and strengthen this program.
Worldwide | Shows in Denver, CO
In 2026, Voices Rock, in partnership with the UWP Foundation, invites you to relive that unmistakable on-stage feeling. Join this special choir for rehearsals over seven weeks in May & June (in person in Denver or online) where alumni and community members will come together to sing Up with People classics from the past 60 years — laughing, blending, and rediscovering the joy that happens when a roomful of voices locks into harmony. After weeks of rehearsal and reconnection, we’ll step into the spotlight for two live performances on June 27 and 28 in Denver, Colorado, capturing the spirit we all remember.
Your support helps bring it all to life — musical arrangements, rehearsal space, sound and equipment, music direction, marketing, and event production. It’s what makes it possible for everyone who still feels that spark the moment the first chord rings out.
Your support helps bring it all to life — musical arrangements, rehearsal space, sound and equipment, music direction, marketing, and event production. It’s what makes it possible for everyone who still feels that spark the moment the first chord rings out.
Denver, Colorado
Founded in Denver by UWP alumni, Harmony Jam Sessions uses the power of music and human connection to bring the world together. Each month, hundreds of people from all walks of life gather to learn a popular song and jam out to incredible harmonies. In just one night, strangers become friends, unity overrides division, community is strengthened, and people leave feeling more hopeful and connected. In this polarized world, Harmony Jam Sessions are a reminder that our shared humanity doesn’t need an app, it just needs a beat.
Your support helps Harmony Jam Sessions expand and bring their signature vocal jam sessions to cities around the world. With your help, what started as a simple local gathering can turn into a global movement for unity and peace through music. Is your city next?!
Your support helps Harmony Jam Sessions expand and bring their signature vocal jam sessions to cities around the world. With your help, what started as a simple local gathering can turn into a global movement for unity and peace through music. Is your city next?!
Prefer to support the Foundation’s work as a whole?
Your gift to the General Fund helps us to create opportunities for meaningful impact worldwide by supporting projects that unite communities, inspire service, and build a more compassionate and connected world.
Your gift to the General Fund helps us to create opportunities for meaningful impact worldwide by supporting projects that unite communities, inspire service, and build a more compassionate and connected world.
Thank you for being part of this community, whether you’re singing with us again, supporting young voices, or simply remembering what music means in your life.
Together, we carry it forward.
Music that connects us continues.
Together, we carry it forward.
Music that connects us continues.
