The oral history initiative has opened the way to a national networking project that includes planning for future workshops and conferences with other organizations and individuals around the country who share our mission and purpose. The organizations with whom we have initiated ongoing dialogue include:

• The National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM, Inc.), Chicago
• Friends of Negro Spirituals (San Francisco)
• Brazeal Dennard Chorale (Detroit)
• Chattanooga Choral Society for the Preservation of African American Song (Chattanooga, Tennessee)
• Harlem Spiritual Ensemble (New York)
• Harry Burleigh Society (Erie, Pennsylvania)
• Cultural Heritage Choir (Oakland, California)
• The Negro Spiritual Scholarship Foundation (Orlando, Florida)
• Anthony Brown, Baritone, Hesston College
• The Art of the Negro Spiritual, Temple Hills , Maryland
• Center for Black Music Research, Chicago
• Leigh Morris Chorale
• Dr. Robert L. Morris, Founder/Artistic Director