What is PNF?
Popular Noise Foundation (PNF) is a nonprofit corporation formed to raise funds and operate charitable programs to benefit and preserve the local music community of the San Francisco Bay Area. A number of escalating problems facing the community are described in our mission statement. PNF is building an effective fundraising infrastructure to ensure the ongoing preservation of the Bay Area music community. As an arts foundation, an important part of this effort is to provide a face for the local music community to the larger, traditional arts community, as well as the business community in SF. How It Started The idea for this foundation started after attending an arts community meeting on April 28th at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Arts Explosion had just been shut down and the “dot.coms are killing the arts scene” discussion was reaching one of its early peaks, so we were interested when we heard about the town hall meeting to discuss the problem. The meeting was held by SF Grants
