Paramount ends funding to Save the Music, forcing foundation to go indie | CNN Business

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Save the Music, the nonprofit foundation that grew in popularity on cable TV in the late 1990s through the 2000s, is going indie.

Paramount Global is ending its financial support for the nearly 30-year-old program that promotes music education in public schools, the foundation announced Wednesday. As a result, Save the Music is starting a $10 million endowment fund to sustain its mission as a fully independent nonprofit.

The change marks the end of an era for the organization, which was created in 1997 by a former VH1 executive and became

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