Editing Dave Matthews Band (section)

==Philanthropy==
{{as of|2023|February}}, the band's own charity, the Bama Works Fund, has raised over $65 million and made over 6,500 grants.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bama Works - ABOUT |url=https://www.bamaworks.org/about |access-date=February 28, 2023 |website=Bama Works}}</ref> It was founded in 1999 to address the needs of disadvantaged youth, disabled persons, the environment, and arts and humanities in the city of [[Charlottesville, Virginia]] area, and surrounding area of [[Albemarle County|Albemarle]], [[Buckingham County, Virginia|Buckingham]], [[Fluvanna County|Fluvanna]], [[Greene County, Virginia|Greene]], [[Louisa County, Virginia|Louisa]], [[Nelson County, Virginia|Nelson]], and [[Orange County, Virginia|Orange Counties]].<ref name="BAMAWORKS1">{{cite web|url=http://www.davematthewsband.com/#/bamaworks|title=Dave Matthews Band/BAMA Works|year=2010|work=Official Dave Matthews Website|publisher=Bama Rags Inc.|access-date=May 14, 2010}}</ref> In addition, BAMA Works Fund has been active in other projects, and often the Dave Matthews Band, both as a whole and individually, have planned charity events and donated their time and resources outside of Charlottesville. Some examples include building a "Village Recovery Fund" after the [[tsunami]] that ravaged [[Sri Lanka]], promoting a challenge grant for the [[Habitat for Humanity]] Musician's Village in New Orleans,<ref name="ButterRoom1">{{cite web|url=http://thebutterroom.com/post/52981126/inside-the-warehouse-the-dave-matthews-band-fan|title=Inside the Warehouse: The Dave Matthews Band fan association|last=Wickersty|first=Todd|year=2010|work=tumblr.com|publisher=The Butter Room|access-date=May 14, 2010}}</ref> multiple appearances to benefit both [[Farm Aid]] and the annual [[Neil Young]]-sponsored [[Bridge School Benefit]]s, fundraisers for the victims of [[Hurricane Katrina]], and followed this with donations after the 2010 disaster that leveled many villages in [[Haiti]].<ref name="BAMAWORKS1"/> The band played benefit concerts to help fund the school system in New York City, and countless other concerns. As a result, the band was awarded the [[NAACP Image Awards|NAACP chairman's Award]]. In Matthews's acceptance speech, he spoke for the band as a whole, commenting that of all the achievements they had enjoyed, that the award by the [[NAACP]] and Julian Bond, in particular, was by far the highest honor they had bestowed upon them.<ref name="DMB MySpace Website">{{cite web|url=http://www.myspace.com/davematthewsband |title=DMB MySpace Website |year=2004 |work=Video receiving award |publisher=Dave Matthews Band |access-date=March 12, 2009}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=May 2020}}<ref name="YouTube">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJRmvhwatfc | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120906115255/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJRmvhwatfc| archive-date=2012-09-06|title=Dave Matthews Band – Why Oh Why/Crush |year=2004 |work=Video of NAACP Award |via=YouTube |access-date=March 12, 2009}}</ref>

The band donated the $1&nbsp;million raised during a charity concert to homeless and children's charities in San Francisco, California. The band has played other charity concerts benefiting Bay Area parks, music education, and AIDS research.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/dave-matthews-band |title=Dave Matthews Band's Charity Work, Events and Causes |publisher=Looktothestars.org |access-date=December 17, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Bojalad |first=Alec |url=http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/touring/dave-matthews-to-play-acoustic-set-for-charity-1005296692.story |title=Dave Matthews to Play Acoustic Set for Charity of Ticket-Buyers' Choosing |magazine=Billboard |date=July 28, 2011 |access-date=December 17, 2012 |archive-date=December 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121230105218/http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/touring/dave-matthews-to-play-acoustic-set-for-charity-1005296692.story |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In June 2016, the band announced that a CD set of Dave Matthews's 1996 solo performance at [[Sweet Briar College]] would be released later in the summer, with all profits donated to the college, which almost closed in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jambands.com/news/2016/06/08/dave-matthews-to-release-1996-solo-show|title=Dave Matthews to Release 1996 Solo Show|website=Jambands.com|access-date=June 8, 2016|date=June 8, 2016}}</ref>

In September 2017, Dave Matthews Band organized and hosted "''[[A Concert for Charlottesville|A Concert for Charlottesville: An Evening of Music and Unity]]''", a free benefit concert to raise funds for the victims killed and injured in a terrorist attack at the [[Unite the Right rally]] in August 2017.<ref name=":1" /> Other artists who performed included [[Cage the Elephant]], [[Coldplay]], [[The Roots]], [[Brittany Howard]], [[Pharrell Williams]], [[Chris Stapleton]], [[Ariana Grande]], [[Justin Timberlake]], and [[Stevie Wonder]]. The concert raised nearly $2 million for victim relief and racial-justice causes.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Woods |first=Charlotte Rene |date=2020-08-11 |title=CACF launches online project documenting Aug. 12 recovery |url=http://www.cvilletomorrow.org/cacf-launches-online-project-documenting-aug-12-recovery/ |access-date=2023-02-28 |website=Charlottesville Tomorrow |language=en-US}}</ref>