within a year, the nashville songwriters association was chartered by the state of tennessee as a not-for-profit trade association, and from that moment, nsai would go on to make a difference for all songwriters by helping to revise antiquated copyright laws and to establish new intellectual property protection in the digital age, by establishing a network of over 90 songwriter workshops to provide local instruction at home and abroad, and by conducting more than a half dozen educational conferences and awards shows each year.