News
By Nick Chapin
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November 19, 2001
The Dave Matthews Band continued its tradition of community involvement in Charlottesville last week when the group's Bama Works Fund gave the University's largest community service volunteer organization, Madison House, a $114,576 gift.
The gift, the largest single donation to Madison House in recent history, was a percentage of proceeds from the charity concert the band held last April, and represents more than half of Madison House's yearly budget of $200,000.
The band established the Bama Works Fund in 1998, primarily to provide support to charities in the Charlottesville City and Albemarle County area, though the group occasionally makes national and international grants.