CreativeBridge Coalition co-founders Bill Bodine and Dan Marshall share a lifelong passion for music and its transformative effects. During a recent 30-year reunion of their Youngstown, OH based-band, Brainchild, Bill and Dan worked to find an appropriate non-profit to benefit from the band's performance. Although they had pursued divergent careers in music and academia, respectively, they thoroughly enjoyed their collaboration on this project and vowed to work together on other endeavors.

After identifying a need for well-conceived, effective music programs that met the needs of young children and children with special needs, they focused their energies on creating a non-profit organization. The result is CreativeBridge Coalition. Today, CBC applies a unique blend of knowledge and insight drawn from the music and academic worlds to create truly remarkable coalitions dedicated to changing the lives of children through music.