The International Association of African American Music Foundation is a 16 year old non profit organization based in the Philadelphia area. The IAAAM Foundation's mission is the perpetuation and preservation of Black music and cultural throughout the United States and around the world. During the past decade and a half the IAAAM Foundation has produced a myriad of viable programs around the globe. Among them is the Literacy Lyric Project, founded by Grammy Award winning producers/songwriters Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, along with IAAAM's co founders, Dyana Williams and Sheila Eldridge. The LL Project takes music industry professionals into schools to encourage academic excellence. Partipants have included Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Monica, En Vogue, 112, Dru Hill, and numerous prominent industry executives.

Additionally, IAAAM has organized and participated in international music symposiums, conferences, music gala and events in London, Bermuda, Egypt, Bosnia and Japan. As the producers of the national celebration of Black Music Month, each June the IAAAM Foundation has honored a diverse aggregation of legendary luminaries. Among them have been the Reverend Shirly Caesar, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Frankie Beverly & Maze, Little Jimmy Scott, Salt N Pepa, Isaac Hayes, Patti LaBelle, Freddie Hubbard and many others.

In 2000, the IAAAM Foundation collaborated with Congressman Chaka Fattah, (D-PA), and with unanimous support from the legislature (383 -0) enacted House Resolution 509, the African American Music Bill. This bill recognizes the immense financial and cultural contributions made by various indigenous American genres of music and of all those who generate the multi billion dollar industry. Recognized for it's leadership and commitment to the promotion of Black music, the founders of the IAAAM Foundation were invited to a private meeting in the White House Oval Office with President Clinton. Media coverage of the IAAAM Foundation's programs and projects has been featured in Ebony, Jet, Essence, Black Enterprise, Upscale, The Philadelphia Tribune, BET, NBC, MTV, VH-1 and CNN.

Under the leadership of Harlem native and music industry broadcast veteran Dyana Williams, (who has been dubbed the Ambassador of African American Music), the IAAAM Foundation continues it's mission to use Black music as a positive entity working diligently on a grassroots level to effective progressive change in communities around the world.