If there’s a word that defines the Schultz-Hill Foundation, it’s life-changing. Just spend a few minutes at one of the Foundation’s events and you’ll understand what I mean. You’ll see it in the excitement of a young person hearing the crescendo of a classical composition for the first time, and in the glistening eyes of a senior who hums along wistfully to a beloved tune. It’s in the grateful smile of a student now able to pursue her dream career in the arts, or an arts organization receiving much-needed funding to stay afloat. Bringing the arts alive and enriching the lives of South Jersey residents is no small task, and co-founders Gary Hill and John Schultz do it with passion, skill, and plenty of toe-tapping fun.
 
The Schultz-Hill Foundation was founded 16 years ago with the intent to give back to the community via enrichment through the arts. The announcement of the Foundation, in a Press of Atlantic City article, was read by friend and singer/pianist Michael Feinstein. “Michael called us up to say that the next time he’s in town, he’d like to help,” recalled Gary. “Because of his connections, Michael convinced Broadway star Linda Eder to perform with him, and that was our first benefit concert, held at the Hilton.”
 
Since then, the Schultz-Hill Foundation has organized one benefit performance annually, the proceeds of which support the remainder of their year-long arts outreach programs for students, seniors and the community. Past benefit performers have included Marc Antonelli, Lucie Arnaz, Eddie Bruce, Julie Budd, Clint Holmes, Chris Macchio, Deana Martin, and Tami Pescatelli. The Foundation has been fortunate enough to have been at Caesars, The Claridge and Resorts with these great entertainers.
 
Arts Programs for Seniors, Students & the Community
 
With the proceeds from the annual benefit, the Schultz-Hill Foundation is able to bring a variety of arts programming to South Jersey. This includes the Music & Memories Series Senior Outreach program, where seniors enjoy free concerts from ‘big band’ to swing music to jazz at venues such as the Milton & Betty Katz Jewish Community Center and Seashore Gardens Living Center. The Community Student Outreach Program offers musical education, such as concert performances by the Bay Atlantic Symphony.
 
This year, the Schultz-Hill Foundation expanded its outreach in support of Public Art. In cooperation with the Atlantic City ART Foundation, the Foundation commissioned renowned local artist Edwin Rivera to paint the plain looking parking bollards at the Atlantic City Library.
 
In addition, its Arts Outreach Program supports local arts organizations such as the Atlantic City Ballet, and the DINA Award provides scholarships to students, educators and organizations. To date, Schultz-Hill has awarded over $125,000 in student scholarships and art/historical grants. The Foundation is a 501(c)(3), and all donations are tax deductible.
 
“We’re able to give back because of the incredible support that we receive,” notes John, who sums up the effort in one succinct, heartfelt quote. “With the Arts, we have expression; with history we have knowledge. Together, we have our future.”
 
Presenting the 5th DIMENSION Featuring Florence LaRue
Superstar Theater at Resorts Casino Hotel, Friday, August 24, 2018, 8:30 pm
 
For its benefit concert this year, the Schultz-Hill Foundation welcomes seven-time Grammy Award winning sensation THE 5th DIMENSON featuring Florence LaRue. This high energy benefit concert will feature some of their greatest hits, including Age of Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In, Up, Up & Away, One Less Bell to Answer, Stoned Soul Picnic, and many more. THE 5TH DIMENSION is in the Grammy Hall of Fame, Vocal Group Hall of Fame, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and has endeared millions of fans to its champagne soul sound.
 
As an original member and vocalist for the group, Florence LaRue rose to fame from humble beginnings in Glenside, Pa., to become a super star. Proving to be a woman with much more dimension, Florence LaRue’s personal journey includes her experience as the only African American girl in an all-white school.  She credits her grounded beliefs and staunch confidence as protagonists to her amazing personal history. When THE 5TH DIMENSION catapulted to fame during the racially charged 1960s, many African American audiences rejected the group for being ‘too white.’ Florence LaRue’s faith endured. The audience will be uplifted and inspired by love, warmth, and the extraordinary talent of this dynamic woman, as she shares her story during this landmark performance. Florence LaRue transports audiences into her world of dreams, hopes, heartbreak, and joyful spirit.   
 
Resorts Casino Hotel is a presenting sponsor of the event. Limited $175-per-person VIP tickets include preferred seating and a tax-deductible post-show “meet and greet” champagne/dessert party, and may be purchased online at www.schultz-hill.org. General admission seating tickets are $30; preferred seating tickets are $55. Both are available through Ticketmaster or at Resorts box office.

A new brighter entrance greets visitors at the Atlantic City Library, thanks to a grant from the Schultz- Hill Foundation. In cooperation with the Atlantic City ART Foundation, the Schultz-Hill Foundation commissioned renowned local artist Edwin Rivera to paint the plain looking parking bollards at the Atlantic City Library between City Hall and the Atlantic County Building.
 
Rivera painted bright, happy designs of students, colors and inspiring words, creating a new bright and artistic Entrance to a public area for residents, workers and tourists alike. Click here for photos.
 
“We are happy to support artists in our region and public art in the city,” said Gary Hill, co-founder of the Schultz-Hill Foundation.
 
The nonprofit 501(c)3 Schultz-Hill Foundation supports the arts, history and education throughout South Jersey. Programs include the Dina Scholarships, Senior Music Series, summer music program with the Atlantic City Day Nursery,  for additional information, please contact the Schultz-Hill Foundation or visit www.schultz-hill.org.

More than 350 people, mostly senior citizens, came together at Margate’s Jewish Community Center on Wednesday, May 16th, to hear an hour-long concert of ‘swing’ music from the big band era, sponsored by the Schultz- Hill Foundation. The free concert was the first performance in the 2018 Music & Memories Series, designed to bring the arts to seniors in the community.

The music was provided by the Vineland-based 16-piece Buddy Gale Band, under the direction of Dr. Louis Giunta, a retired music educator and school administrator. The list of songs included favorites by Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, and Glenn Miller, and had the audience humming the tunes, clapping along with the music’s tempo and applauding enthusiastically at the conclusion of each number.

Dr. Giunta engaged the audience with an entertaining banter, introducing the next number as well as introducing the members of the band. “We will not forget you or the music of your era, and will pass these songs on so our children and grandchildren can enjoy this music for generations to come,” said Dr. Giunta.
The Schultz-Hill Foundation was happy to partner with the Milton & Betty Katz Jewish Community Center for the Music and Memories Series. Sponsors of the concert included The Forza Insurance Group, the Hordes Family and OceanFirst Bank.

The nonprofit 501(c)3 Schultz-Hill Foundation supports the arts, history and education throughout South Jersey. Programs include the Dina Scholarships, Senior Music Series, Summer music program with the Atlantic City Day Nursery, and an Arts Outreach collaborative with the Bay Atlantic Symphony and Atlantic City Public Schools. For additional information, please contact the Schultz-Hill Foundation or visit www.schultz-hill.org.

In 2002, an article in a local newspaper, focusing on giving back to the community, ignited the undertaking that would become today’s Schultz-Hill Foundation. 
            Founded in that first year by the Hon. John Schultz and his partner, Gary Hill, the Schultz-Hill Foundation was created to promote and support arts, history and education in South Jersey. Now observing its 16th year, the organization has annually delivered on its primary goals of providing educational scholarships, direct grants and funding for the Arts, historical and musical programs.
            This year, via its Arts Outreach program, the Foundation will bring the Bay Atlantic Symphony to Atlantic City Residents with a Summer Concert Series on the Beach, and plans are in the works to introduce the Atlantic City Ballet to residents of the Covenant House.  On May 16th, the Foundation will host the first of its Senior Music & Memories Series with the 16-piece Buddy Gale Big Band performing at Margate’s Jewish Community Center. On June 27th , under that same series, the Foundation will bring  Dave Damiani  & the Instigators to seniors at the Milton & Betty Katz Jewish Community Center. On September 6th  at Seashore Gardens Living Center, the Teddy Royal Trio will present Jazz in the Garden in the Alzheimer’s Sensory Trail & Healing Garden. The Senior Music and Memories events are open, at no cost, to all senior citizens, Schultz-Hill Foundation is pleased to be able to fund these programs for our seniors.
            For its 16th annual fundraising event, the Foundation presents the  American Legends, “FIFTH Dimension,” featuring the remarkable original lead Florence La Rue at the Superstar Theater at the Resorts Casino Hotel on August 24th, at 8:30 p.m.            
For additional information, please contact the  Schultz-Hill Foundation, visit www.schultz-hill.org.
 

Atlantic City’s Schultz-Hill Foundation kicks off its first concert of the 2018 Senior Music & Memories Series with Big Band at the Shore, on Wed., May 16 at 1 p.m. at the Milton & Betty Katz Jewish Community Center in Margate, N.J. Area seniors may attend free of charge but reservations are required.
 
The concert will feature the 16-piece Buddy Gale Band, under the direction of Dr. Lou Guinta. The band, featuring virtuosic performers on various brass and reed instruments, will perform standards of the Big Band era.
 
Reservations for the concert are required and can be made by calling 609 822-1167, ext. 121.
 
The nonprofit 501(c)3 Schultz-Hill Foundation supports the arts, history and education throughout South Jersey. Programs include the Senior Music & Memories Series, Dina Scholarships, summer music program with the Atlantic City Day Nursery and the Arts Outreach collaborative with the Bay Atlantic Symphony and Atlantic City Public Schools.
 
For more information, visit www.schultz-hill.org.

(Press of Atlantic City - Dec. 9, 2017) The Atlantic City-based Schultz-Hill Foundation met recently for its annual Dina Scholarship/Arts Program presentation. The nonprofit, private foundation awarded more than $21,000 in 2017 to local students and area arts and education programs, said Gary Hill, foundation president, shown at left with foundation board members and supporters. The Dina Program, named after the "Angel of Wisdom," is a sub-program of the foundation. This year's scholarship winners were students Brandon Moore and Giavanna Mancuso.

The Schultz- Hill Foundation (a Non-Profit Private Foundation) located in Atlantic City awarded over $21,000 to Students  & ARTS Programs in 2017. The DINA  Scholarship/ARTS Grant Program was established to support programs and students in the field of Art/History and Education. The Dina  Program is  named after the “Angel of Wisdom” and is a Sub- Program of the Foundation  in Atlantic City.
                                     
 The 2017 “Dina  Recipients” 
The Scholarships and Awards are very diverse and include but are not limited to:  AC Day Nursery " Music together Program", Holy Spirit  Music  Program, Greater Ocean City Theatre Company, Chelsea  School DC Education Trip,  Atlantic City Ballet Company, Bay Atlantic Symphony, Children's Cultural  Foundation,  Lucy the Elephant, Artists Alike Studio , Atlantic City Boys & Girls  Club, Boardwalk Summer  Music Series, MANNA At The Shore,  and students Brandon Moore and Giavanna Mancuso.
 
The Schultz-Hill Foundation  promotes and supports  Education, History and The ARTS in South Jersey. For more information, visit  www.schultz-hill.org.
 
 (The Schultz- Hill Foundation does not discriminate in any way on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, or sexual preference, nationality, ancestry, or national and ethnic origin.)

Nearly 100 seniors enjoyed Jazz in the Garden, a free concert courtesy of Atlantic City’s Schultz-Hill Foundation, on Sept. 19, 2017 at Seashore Gardens Living Center (SGLC). The concert is part of the Schultz-Hill Foundation’s collaborative arts outreach program, the Music and Memories Series, and was sponsored by the Ocean First Foundation.
Due to inclement weather, Jazz in the Garden took place on SGLC’s Boardwalk. The concert featured music by the Eddie Morgan Band and singer Angela Burton.
 
The concert is the third in the 2017 Music & Memories Series by the Schultz-Hill Foundation, designed to bring the arts to seniors in the community. Schultz-Hill is partnering with Seashore Gardens Living Center for this event.
 
The nonprofit 501(c)3 Schultz-Hill Foundation supports the arts, history and education throughout South Jersey. Programs include the Dina Scholarships, Senior Music Series, Summer music program with the Atlantic City Day Nursery, and an Arts Outreach collaborative with the Bay Atlantic Symphony and Atlantic City Public Schools. For additional information, please contact the Schultz-Hill Foundation or visit www.schultz-hill.org.
 

Ocean First Foundation presented  the Schultz-Hill Foundation with a $3,000  check  to sponsor the FREE  "Music and Memories" Concert on September 19th entitled "JAZZ in the GARDEN" featuring Eddie Morgan and Vocalist Angela Burton at Seashore Gardens Living Center. Pictured are Schultz-Hill Foundation Board Members  Jeannie Eisele, Kathleen Woodring, and Gary Hill  with Ocean  First Personal Banker Tanika Brock in Atlantic City.
 

The Schultz-Hill Foundation is proud to join with the CRDA in sponsoring the free 2017 Atlantic City Boardwalk Music Series at Kennedy Plaza in front of Boardwalk Hall. Concerts take place on Friday evenings from 6-8 p.m. from July 21 through August 18. Featured performers included Argo, The Remedy Band and Poor Mouth Henry.

The nonprofit 501(c)3 Schultz-Hill Foundation supports the arts, history and education throughout South Jersey. Programs include the Dina Scholarships, Senior Music Series, Summer music program with the Atlantic City Day Nursery, and an Arts Outreach collaborative with the Bay Atlantic Symphony and Atlantic City Public Schools. For additional information, please contact the Schultz-Hill Foundation or visit www.schultz-hill.org.