Our Impact

Franklin, TN (September 2024) - TEMPO partnered with West Virginia Drug Institute for the Pilgrimage Festival 2024.

WVDII thrilled to celebrate our amazing team who joined us in spreading awareness and empowering attendees with life-saving knowledge and tools.

Congratulations to JOSEPH LOPEZ from San Francisco, CA, the winner of the Purple Kramer Guitar and a brand new ONEbox Opioid Reversal Kit.

Joseph and his wife, Hannah, became life-saving instruments, joining hundreds of others empowered with the knowledge and tools to reverse an overdose and save lives.

A huge thank you to everyone who took the time to learn and carry naloxone this weekend. Together, we’re making a difference, one life at a time.

Lewisburg, WV (September 2024) - Gibson Gives TEMPO Program partnered with West Virginia Drug Institute for the Healing Appalachia 2024.

With Assistance from TEMPO, the WVDII team recently supported the TEMPO mission at Healing Appalachia, and it was another inspiring experience filled with hope, recovery, and conversations about solutions to the opioid crisis affecting all of Appalachia.

Through this opportunity to connect with individuals who received ONEboxes from past events and hear their stories about how they have positively impacted their lives. We also shared more about our organization, TEMPO, and Gibson Gives.

Nashville, TN - August 2024 - Gibson Gives, through our TEMPO program has continued our Live Music Venue Outreach with Metro Police (through Sergeant Mike Hotz) –

A TEMPO ONEBOX was installed in both the main bar floor as well as the Roof Top Performance Terrace due to the continuing increase of overdose in the downtown music areas of Nashville.

Nashville, TN and Charleston, West Virginia - August 2024 - Gibson Gives, through our TEMPO program has partnered with West Virginia Drug Institute to become a member partner of the TEMPO program

WVDII have become a critical partner in providing either free of charge or at a greatly reduced partner price for their ONEBOX units which have been used in much of the TEMPO music and Nashville community outreach.

Atlanta, Georgia (May 2024) - TEMPO partnered with Spirit of Atlanta who will be taking TEMPO provide ONEBox Units on their 5 Tour busses for this Summer’s Tour. This will be one of the first groups in the activity to openly advocate for Overdose Awareness and safe access to Naloxone in a prominent place on their tour buses.

Equally as important as learning the notes on the page is learning the safety aspects of overdose awareness.

Bethlehem, PA. and Niles, MI - (August 2024)

MusikFest in Bethlehem, PA - TEMPO partnered with The Roady Clinic to be onsite this year to ensure they had some kind of Naloxone distribution program on site.   TEMPO Awareness was provided for each of those crews.

Detroit (Hamtramck), Michigan (July, 2024) - TEMPO partnered with Passenger Recover to place OneBox units and Kloxxado in their new recovery center in Detroit.

Passenger Recover is a TEMPO Partner.

Austin, TX - (March 2024) - TEMPO is teamed up with MusiCares to provide overdose awareness training and Kloxxadoto all of the volunteers and staff of the SXSW [South by Southwest] 2024 activation.

TEMPO is sent 1150 doses of the product for the training that happens in the days leading up to the event. We are certain the impact was be felt and heard!

Anaheim, California - (January, 2024) TEMPO partnered with Solace For Hope to present a 12 X 12 booth for the 2024 NAMM (National Association for Musical Merchants) show in January.

TEMPO provided ONEBox units, Kloxxado, and literature for the event.

Gibson Gives also participated with a Kramer guitar for a give away to draw attention to the booth during the show!

Gibson Gives TEMPO teams with the University of Tennessee’s Institute for Public Service (SMART Program)

Knoxville, TN (October 2023) TEMPO Live Music Venue program continues to grow as we partnered with the University of Tennessee’s Institute for Public Service’s SMART Initiative Substance Use Program to replicate the Live Music Venue Program in Knoxville.

In October, we placed the initial 10 units in Live Music Venues around the University of Tennessee. By the end of the first weekend, we had already used two doses to save lives! Saving one life makes this program worthwhile! We’ve now placed over 20 units in the Knoxville area.

Click Here to hear the Podcast Interview regarding the TEMPO and SMART Program .

Gibson Gives TEMPO Program supports the West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute for the Healing Appalachia Festival and trains over 20,000!

West Virginia (September 2023) TEMPO (Training and Empowering Musicians to Prevent Overdose) , in partnership with the West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute provided guitars for give-away during Healing Appalachia, as well as was a call out for attendees as Naloxone training was done.

The three-day festival held in Lewisburg, WV, between September 21-23. Every night, right before the headlining act, the team took center stage, not just to gift a Gibson guitar, but more importantly, to train the audience on administering life-saving naloxone.

We achieved a significant milestone by distributing 853 ONEboxes and 1,706 life-saving naloxone doses and training 20,000 attendees from stage.

Gibson Gives Continues to expand the TEMPO Program and their Live Music Venue Footprint

Nashville, TN (May 19, 2023) Emergency Opioid Kits continue to be donated to local music venues in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. “It’s a simple nasal spray that will attack the neurons in the brain that are telling you to stop breathing and re-engage you to breathe again,” said Dendy Jarrett, the Executive Director of Gibson Gives.

When you open what’s called a “One box” kit, there’s a training video in English and in Spanish to show how to help someone who’s overdosing.

Dendy Jarrett is the executive director of Gibson Gives, a non-profit focused on music education and wellness. Jarrett explains how the number of overdoses concerned encouraged them to develop a program called “T.E.M.P.O” which stands for “Training and Empowering Musicians to Prevent Overdose.”

“For the last two years, over a hundred thousand people have died from overdose in the United States. Over 700 in Davidson county alone. The last two years running,” said Jarrett. “

This is the new AED,” said Leavitt. David Leavitt provides his security guards with these kits. He explains how having this nearby is so critical.

“Well with downtown crowds and downtown traffic that can take several minutes and sometimes it can be too late by the time the paramedics arrive and people end up going to the hospital in a very critical condition,” explained Leavitt

Gibson Gives receives its largest donation to date from Hikma in response to the opioid overdose crisis.

NASHVILLE, TN (September 21, 2022) Last year, Gibson Gives--the purpose-driven charitable arm of the iconic American instrument brand Gibson—launched TEMPO-Training and Empowering Musicians to Prevent Overdose. The TEMPO program works with non-profits to provide both life-saving training for using the drug Naloxone (Kloxxado® Narcan), which is used to prevent opioid overdoses, and offer a support network for recovery from opioid addiction. Through TEMPO, Gibson Gives is training musicians, crew members, music industry professionals, and non-profits on how to properly administer Kloxxado® giving them the ability to reverse opioid overdoses and save lives.

 Gibson Gives’ TEMPO program is proud to announce a generous commitment of 16,000 doses of Kloxxado® (Naloxone HCl) Nasal Spray 8 mg from Hikma. The three-year commitment titled TEMPO, Powered by Kloxxado®  is valued at $1 Million, marking the largest single donation to Gibson Gives and its TEMPO program, so far.

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