The mission of the Kodály Foundation for Music Education is the advancement of music education based on the vision of Hungarian composer, scholar and educator Zoltán Kodály, by supporting the Kodály Center founded in 1969 at Holy Names College (now University) in Oakland, California. The Foundation received nonprofit status in 2021, and seeks to support the Center by sponsoring scholarships for study, events and publications. Through its fundraising efforts, it hopes to build an endowment to sustain the Kodály Center in its mission of educating music teachers to build a more musical culture in the United States and around the world.Anne Laskey is a former director of the Kodály Center at Holy Names University in Oakland, CA where she taught pedagogy, practicum and folk music and supervised student teaching in neighboring schools. She is the co-developer (with Gail Needleman) of Holy Names' online American Folk Song Collection. Her previous positions include twelve years as Music Specialist at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in San Francisco and five years as Assistant Conductor of the San Francisco Boys Chorus. Anne served three terms on the Organization of American Kodály Educators (OAKE) board and was the program chair for the 2004 OAKE National Conference in San Francisco. She received OAKE's Outstanding Educator Award in 2008, and HNU's Faculty Award in 2011.Gail Needleman taught musicianship at Holy Names University for twenty years and was the creator of HNU's integrated undergraduate music curriculum, based on the Hungarian model of music education. She was the co-developer (with Anne Laskey) of Holy Names' online American Folk Song Collection website, which is used by thousands of teachers and musicians throughout the world. Gail presented papers and workshops on folk song and musicianship at regional, national and international conferences, and was a keynote speaker at the 2017 International Kodály Symposium in Alberta, Canada. She received the Organization of American Kodály Educators Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.