Our Board Of Directors:
Alfred Bahna / President and Founder
Kerry Bahna / Treasurer
Lorraine Knepple / Director
Luis Quevado / Director
Our Ambassadors:
Elisa Donahue and Lauren McAlister Yonkers, New York
Diane Larkin Brooklyn, New York
Sheila Sanders Rock Hill, South Carolina
Brandie Flee Sarasota, Florida
Veronica Duchene Daniele Thomas Marine Park and Canarsie Brooklyn, New York
Bill Mitchell Tom's River, New Jersey
"Eddie" Patella (Service Dog / Therapy Dog) Astoria, Queens.
Become an Ambassador today for your local community and help us to bring music to kids in need.
Ambassadors spread the good will of our foundation, collect musical instruments, and help raise funds.
If you have a skill or talent that you believe can be used to help our foundation please contact us.
Together we can help children in need and inspire them to be the world's next musicians.
The Waffles FoundationINC is a certified 501 (c) (3) charity under the IRS. EIN # 85-3180308.
It is registered in the State of Florida with the Florida Department Of Agriculture And Consumer Services. DTN4162155 CH 63793.
We are so grateful to the following business partners, individuals, and organizations who make
what we do possible and who help us to "Help Tomorrow's Musicians Today."
Special thanks to David and all the players for hitting the high notes with our young musicians because of your generosity.
Tom thank you for this amazing and professional website and for being our very first sponsor.
Kiwanis of Canarsie and Ben Bay
Veronica your devotion to education and our foundation have made such a difference in the lives of so many young musicians.
Thank you to everyone on the team for your support and for giving us a platform to highlight the
foundations current events and spread the word and excitement of the foundation.
Thank you for helping to make kids dreams come true & for giving back to the community.
Your event sponsorships have been and continue to be the keys to our success.
Thank you to Tracy and Jack for all of your love and devotion to our foundation and
for helping to make our vision of bringing music to kids everywhere a reality.
Adam Clark
Thank you for your kindness and expertise as a professional musician and a friend.
Nobody restrings a guitar as well as you.
Thank you Earle for writing such a thoughtful and informative article about our foundation, "Waffles," and
our first event. The article continues to spread our mission to the world and has gathered countless musical instruments and
equipment that we have donated to children and youth music programs around the United States of America.
Thank you Adrian for your hospitality, friendship, and generosity in allowing us to celebrate events at your
spectacular arcade. Your ownership, staff,
and facility are stellar and all of our guests felt at home and can't wait for the next event.
Our foundation is grateful to all of the members of the lodge for their generous donation and for their dedication the kids and people of The Gulf Coast.
Thank you to Brenda for being such a friend and professional resource for our foundation.
You take care of all of our shipping & printing; and we are so grateful.
Thank you for having the "Round Up" program which allows customers to round up their purhases
online or in store and donate to our foundation and also for having an online registry potential donors can visit and
purchase items our foundation needs for the kids we sponsor and for our outreach programs.
Special thanks to our friend from the "Great White North" "Dave Flook" for all of his help with formatting our logo
for our tee shirt and for always being there for us to solve any tech problem that we may have. Dave is a professional
Graphic Designer and creates unique custom designs for all of your digital and marketing needs. Please visit
Dave's website at http://printoga.com or phone him at (519) 222-9099. Tell him "Waffles" sent you.
Above and beyond love and thanks to my brother Mark and his business partner John for their generous donation
to our foundation and for being our contact point for car donations at their business and fascilitating the process and
making it easy for our donors. Visit Mark and John & their incredible staff at 115 Walnut Street Montclair, New Jersey 07042
to drop off your donated car, van, or truck or to buy a regular or high end used vehicle for a great price.
Tell them "Waffles" steered you in their direction You can call Mark at (973) - 744 - 2011.
Music Go Around
We are proud to partner with Melinda and her amazing team for their help in repairing, servicing, and assessing the musical instruments
which come our way as well as giving us fair prices on any instrument or piece of equipment that we need for our students and programs across America.
Please visit them for all of your music needs including the buying, selling, and repair of musical instruments
right in the heart of Bradenton, Florida on 5108 15th Street, Suite 204.
They can be contacted at (941) 896-9138 or via their website at www.musicgoaround.com
Tell them "Waffles" amped you up about them.
Please contact our foundation at: (321) 246 - 0335
or via email at wafflesfoundation@gmail.com
Our foundation also gives inspirational talks on the topics of music therapy,
suicide prevention, and the arts. Please call or email for further information.
We are proud to be partnering with the following schools,
institutions, and music programs on a regular basis.
The Nubian Conservatory /Brooklyn, N.Y.