All Within My Hands is a Non-Profit Organization created by the members and management of Metallica in 2017. This organization is dedicated to the support of education by helping community colleges like:
- Central Community College – Grand Island, Nebraska
- Central Piedmont Community College – Charlotte, North Carolina
- Clackamas Community College – Oregon City, Oregon
- Clark State College – Springfield, Ohio
- Clinton Community College – Clinton, Iowa
- College of Lake County – Grayslake, Illinois
- Columbia Gorge Community College – The Dalles, Oregon
- Community College of Baltimore County – Baltimore, Maryland
- Elizabethtown Community & Technical College – Elizabethtown, Kentucky
- East Central College – Union, Missouri
- Gateway Technical College – Kenosha, Wisconsin
- Grand Rapids Community College – Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Guilford Technical Community College – Jamestown, North Carolina
- Hudson County Community College – Jersey City, New Jersey
- Lone Star College – The Woodlands, Texas
- Middlesex Community College – Lowell, Massachusetts
- Milwaukee Area Technical College – Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College – Perkinston, Mississippi
- North Idaho Community College – Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
- Northern Virginia Community College – Annandale, Virginia
- Northwest-Shoals Community College – Muscle Shoals, Alabama
- Pima Community College – Tuscon, Arizona
- Polk State College – Winter Haven, Florida
- Rockland Community College – Suffern, New York
- Spokane Community College – Spokane, Washington
- Salt Lake Community College – Salt Lake City, Utah
- San Juan College – Farmington, New Mexico
- Valencia College – Orlando, Florida
- Victor Valley College – Victorville, California
- West Virginia University Parkersburg – Parkersburg, West Virginia
- Westchester Community College – Valhalla, New York
- WSU-Tech – Wichita, Kansas
It supports the fight against hunger by donating to local food banks while on tour and helps critical local services. In fact so far the foundation has helped with california’s wildfires, hurricane florance, Australian wildfires and has donated to San Francisco’s local organization “Hamilton families” which helps homeless people. They also helped during COVID by donating to organizations like Feeding America, Direct Relief, Live Nation’s Crew Nation Initiative, The Recording Academy’s MusiCares, and the United States Bartenders’ Guild National Charity Foundation’s Bartender Emergency Assistance Program.
To help this foundation you can make a donation or join their November auction here, bidding ends today!
If you can’t make it, don’t worry, they have monthly fundraisers and plenty of activities to come, so stay updated by signing up for their mailing list.