AMERICAN FEDERATION OF VIOLIN AND BOW MAKERS INC
EIN 13-3206933 · Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues (S41)
What they do
THE AMERICAN FEDERATION of VIOLIN and BOW MAKERS WAS FOUNDED to PROVIDE THE MUSICAL COMMUNITY WITH A STANDARD of WORK and EXPERTISE UPON WHICH THEY COULD DEPEND. THE FEDERATIONS MISSION is to ENHANCE THE PUBLICS UNDERSTANDING and APPRECIATION of THE VIOLIN and BOW FAMILIES, and of RELATED AREAS of EXPERTISE, INCLUDING THE MAKING of NEW INSTRUMENTS, AS WELL AS CONSERVATION and RESTORATION of HISTORICAL and MODERN INSTRUMENTS.THE ART of VIOLIN and BOW MAKING REPRESENTS A BODY of KNOWLEDGE THAT HAS BEEN HANDED DOWN for CENTURIES FROM ONE GENERATION OT THE NEXT. THE MEMBERS of THE FEDERATION ACTIVELY WORK to CONTINUE THIS TRADITION THROUGH BIENNIAL MEETINGS, LECTURES and SEMINARS, EXHIBITIONS, PUBLICATIONS, and CONCERTS. THE FEDERATION HAS COMPLIED A PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE of THE FINEST WORKS of THE MASTERS of THE CRAFT. THE ARCHIVE CONSTITUTES AN EXTENSIVE DATABASE THAT PROVIDES THE MEMBERSHIP WITH AN UNPRECEDENTED RESOURCE ON WHICH to DRAW.
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Leadership and board
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Board and leadership roster (9)
DANIEL WEISSHAARDIRECTOR
EBEN BODACH-TURNERDIRECTOR
EVAN ORMANDIRECTOR
HENRIKE HAHNDIRECTOR
KEVIN KELLYPRESIDENT
MARIIA GORKUNTREASURER
MARKUS LAINEVICE PRESIDENT
SUSAN LIPKINSSECRETARY
YUNG CHINDIRECTOR
About this charity
- Recognized since
- January 1987
- Location
- CO MARIIA GORKUN 487 SOMERVILLE AVE, SOMERVILLE, MA 02143-0000
- County
- Middlesex
- In care of
- % JACQUES FRANCAIS
- Primary officer
- MARIIA GORKUN, Treasurer
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Filing and classification
- Latest tax year
- 2024
- Tax period began
- January 1, 2024
- Return type
- 990EZ
- Tax preparer
- IRWIN WEISSMAN CPA PC
- NTEE classification
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues (S41)
- IRS tax category
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues