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Americans for the Arts
www.artsusa.org
Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization
for advancing the arts in America. With 45 years of service, we are dedicated
to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities
for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the
arts.
Amerinda
www.amerinda.org
American Indian Artists Inc. works to empower Native Americans, break
down barriers, and foster intercultural understanding and appreciation
for Native culture.
Bronx Council on the Arts
www.bronxarts.org
BCA provides funds to Bronx not for profit arts organizations to support
projects in the literary, media, performing and visual arts.
Brooklyn Arts Council
www.brooklynartscouncil.org
Brooklyn Arts Council is an arts and services organization that is the
umbrella for Brooklyn's range of cultural groups and individual artists
working in the visual, performing, media, and literary arts.
Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island
www.statenislandarts.org
The mission of the Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island
is to develop, foster and promote the arts, cultural and humanities activities
on Staten Island.
Harlem Arts Alliance
www.harlemaa.org
The Harlem Arts Alliance preserves, promotes, sponsors
and presents the rich cultural programs that reflect the vast contributions
of multi-ethnic and multi-cultural artists creating in the visual,
performing and interpretive arts, literary, media, performance, and
interdisciplinary arts.
Indo-American Arts Council
www.iaac.us
The Indo-American Arts Council supports all the artistic disciplines
in classical, fusion, folk and innovative forms influenced by the arts
of India.
Lower Manhattan Cultural Center
www.lmcc.net
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council is the leading arts presenter, advocate,
and service provider to artists and arts groups throughout Lower Manhattan
New York State Council on the Arts
www.nysca.org
Provides support and funding for non profit arts and cultural organizations
in New York State
New York Foundation for the Arts
www.nyfa.org
NYFA provides grants, fellowships, fiscal sponsorships, and resources
for artists, arts organizations and communities in New York and beyond.
Arts & Business Council of New York
www.artsandbusiness-ny.org
The Arts & Business Council of New York provides resources and reduces
the distinction between arts and business. It serves both the arts
and the business communities of New York, with programming in volunteerism,
professional development, leadership development, and economic impact.
Asian American Arts Alliance
www.aaartsalliance.org
Asian American Arts Alliance is dedicated to strengthening Asian American
arts groups & artists in NYC through funding, visibility initiatives,
and access to new resources
Association of Hispanic Arts
www.latinoarts.org
Association of Hispanic Arts is a New
York-based non-profit
organization that promotes the work of Hispanic artists.
Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts
www.flushingtownhall.org
Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts is a revitalizing force
for its community, and a creative catalyst for developing and promoting
the arts throughout Queens.
Fractured Atlas
www.fracturedatlas.org
Fractured Atlas is a non-profit organization that serves a national community
of artists and arts organizations, helping them function more effectively
as businesses by providing access to funding, insurance, healthcare,
education, and more.
Volunteer Lawyers For The Arts
www.vlany.org
VLA delivers pro bono and low cost legal services and information
as well as mediation, education and advocacy services for the arts community.
3rd Ward
www.3rdward.com
Provides an affordable, high-end, multi-disciplinary, open source facility
where creative professionals can pursue their careers and projects while
building a lasting art community in Brooklyn.
Anthology Film Archives
www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
Anthology Film Archives is an international center for the preservation,
study, and exhibition of film and video with a particular focus on American
independent and avant-garde cinema.
Alwan For The Arts
www.alwanforthearts.org
Alwan for the Arts serves the Arab community and educates the broader
public by showcasing a range cultural events; thereby enriching the cross-cultural
and artistic encounter.
Downtown Community Television
www.dctvny.org
DCTV introduces members of the community to the basics of electronic
media through hundreds of free or low-cost production courses and access
to broadcast-quality production equipment.
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center
www.harvestworks.org
Harvestworks supports the creation and presentation of art works achieved
through the use of new and evolving technologies and to create environment
where artists can make work inspired and achieved by electronic media.
International Documentary Association
www.documentary.org/resources/funding.html
Supports the efforts of nonfiction film and video makers throughout the
US and the world; promoting the documentary form; and expanding opportunities
for the production, distribution, and exhibition of documentary.
Millennium Film Workshop
www.millenniumfilm.org
Millennium offers various programs and services such as filmmaking workshops,
equipment access-which includes facilities for editing, screening and
shooting, as well as ongoing film-talks and screenings in its Personal
Cinema Series.
Rooftop Films
www.rooftopfilms.com
Rooftop Films is a non-profit film festival and production collective
that supports, creates, promotes, and shows daring short films worldwide
and in a weekly summer rooftop film festival.
Shooting People
www.shootingpeople.org
Shooting People is a membership organization of over 35,000 filmmakers
in the US and the UK. Shooting People helps members get their films made
and seen through daily email bulletins, web resources and events.
Third World Newsreel
www.nycresource.com
Third World Newsreel supports the work of independent filmmakers, TWN
offers four main services: distribution, stock footage licensing, training
and fiscal sponsorship.
Women Make Movies
www.wmm.com
Women Make Movies is a multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts
organization which facilitates the production, promotion, distribution
and exhibition of independent films and videotapes by and about women.
Downtown Community Television
www.dctvny.org
DCTV is a non-profit media center that helps independent digital filmmakers
from all walks of life receive the training, resources, and support necessary
to complete and distribute their work.
City Lore
www.citylore.org
City Lore is a non-profit membership organization founded in 1986 to
produce programs and publications that convey the richness of New York
City's cultural heritage. Increasingly our many efforts embrace national
audiences as well
Council of Literary and Magazine Presses
www.clmp.org
The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses serves one of the most
active segments of American arts and culture: the independent publishers
of exceptional fiction, poetry and prose
Writer's Room
www.writersroom.org
The Writers Room offers writers a tranquil, creative setting to pursue
their work in a subsidized workspace that is available 24 hours a day,
365 days of the year.
National Writers Union
www.nwu.org
The National Writers Union represents freelance writers in all mediums,
print and electronic. The union has been successful in collecting up
to $1.5 million for freelance writers who were denied payment by publishers
and provides writers with the knowledge to better negotiate a book or
magazine contract.
Poets & Writers
www.pw.org
Poets & Writers, Inc. is the primary source of information, support,
and guidance for creative writers.
Media
Queens Public Television
www.qptv.org
QPTV's Community Bulletin Board offers non-profit organizations a free
outlet to provide the community with announcements. The Community Bulletin
Board is cablecast throughout the day with events, news, and useful information.
Public Service announcements can also be arranged.
Actor's Fund of America
www.actorsfund.org
The Actors Fund is a nonprofit, national human services organization
that helps entertainment and performing arts professionals in theater,
film, music, opera, television and dance through a broad spectrum of
social, health, employment, and housing programs that address their essential
and critical needs.
Alliance of Resident Theaters/ New York
www.offbroadwayonline.com
The Alliance of Resident Theatres/ New York is a service and advocacy
organization for non-profit theatre organizations throughout New York
City.
DanceNow NYC
www.dancenownyc.org
Encouraging audiences to journey through the vast and vibrant array of
voices that unite the New York City dance community, Dancenow|NYC's goal
is to allow the audience for dance to discover, connect with and find
new artists.
DanceNYC
www.dancenyc.org
Dance/NYC strives to improve the New York dance community by strengthening
the artists working within New York and the organizations that serve
them. We do this by preparing dance students, working dance artists,
and arts organizations for longevity and self-sufficiency in the field. We
help them develop their skills and infrastructure through communication,
advocacy, and education.
Dance Theater Workshop
www.dancetheaterworkshop.org
One of America's preeminent performing arts institutions, Dance Theater
Workshop maintains an uncompromising mission to identify, present, and
support independent contemporary artists and companies to advance dance
and live performance in New York and worldwide.
The Field
www.thefield.org
The Field serves independent performing artists through non-curated programs,
where risk-taking and originality are championed, and the broadest range
of artistic voices is heard.
Nonprofit NYC Performing Arts Spaces
www.nycPASpaces.org
Nonprofit NYC Performing Arts Spaces addresses a critical need common
among performing artists - finding suitable rehearsal and performance
space in New York City - by offering free online space-finding resources.
NYC
DanceSpaces
www.nycDanceSpaces.org
serves the space needs of New York's dance community, both resident and
touring.
www.nycMusicSpaces.org
provides pertinent details about hundreds of music rehearsal and performance
spaces, from hard-to-find facilities to legendary venues.
nycTheatreSpaces
www.nycTheatreSpaces.org
provides details about spaces appropriate for plays, musicals, readings
and other forms of theatre.
Access Arts Network
www.artdeadline.com
Dedicated to world wide distribution of information for artists and contemporary
visual arts institutions and also serves to promote accessibility to
the arts through fiscal support of programs providing free education
for special need populations.
Artist Help Network
www.artisthelpnetwork.com
A free information service designed to help artists take control of their
careers.
Artist Daily Deals
www.artistdailydeals.com
Daily listings of sales and promotions of art supplies from 100's of
stores for contemporary artists working in all media.
Carol Michels - Career Coach & Artist Advocate
www.carollmichels.com
A free resource service designed to assist artists on-line in locating
information and advice on a comprehensive range of career-related topics.
Lower East Side Print Shop
www.printshop.org
The Lower East Side Printshop, is an art center that supports contemporary
artists of all creative backgrounds by offering them studio space, career
services, and expertise in printmaking to develop new work.
Manhattan Graphics Center
www.manhattangraphicscenter.org
Provides an accessible environment for the learning and practice of fine
art printmaking.
Rejection Collection
www.rejectioncollection.com
A place for creative artists to share the misery and move on.
Council on Foundation
www.cof.org
The Council on Foundations is a Washington, DC, area-based nonprofit
membership association of more than 2,100 grantmaking foundations and
corporations.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
www.philanthropy.com
The newspaper of the nonprofit world.
European Foundation Center
www.efc.be
The European Foundation Centre is an international association of foundations
and corporate funders dedicated to creating an enabling legal and fiscal
environment for foundations, documenting the foundation landscape, strengthening
the infrastructure of the sector, and promoting collaboration, both among
foundations and between foundations and other actors.
Foundation Center
www.fdncenter.org
The Foundation Center is the nation's leading authority on philanthropy,
connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they
can use and information they can trust. The Center maintains the most
comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers and their grants
Foundations on-line
www.foundations.org
Browse the foundation directory, pick a listed foundation, search any
foundation's information page or search any foundation's home page.
Grant Makers in the Arts
www.giarts.org
Grantmakers in the Arts is a membership organization whose trade is discourse
on ideas about arts philanthropy within a diverse community of grantmakers.
Guidestar
www.guidestar.org
Good resource for Foundation research.
The National Endowment for the Arts
www.nea.gov
The National Endowment for the Arts is a public agency dedicated to supporting
excellence in the arts, both new and established; bringing the arts to
all Americans; and providing leadership in arts education. The Endowment
is the nation's largest annual funder of the arts.
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
www.nyc.gov/html/dcla/html
The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs is dedicated to supporting
and strengthening New York City's vibrant cultural life. DCA offers funding
for cultural organizations.
Philanthropy News Network
www.pnnonline.org
A nonprofit news and information resource.
Arts Education
Alliance for the Arts
www.nyc-arts.org
The complete cultural guide to NYC’Äôs museums, performance halls, zoos
and gardens sponsored by the Alliance for the Arts.
ArtsEdge -The Kennedy Center
www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org
ArtsEdge is the National Arts and Education Network supports the placement
of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use
of technology to enhance the K-12 educational experience. ArtsEdge empowers
educators to teach in, through, and about the arts by providing the tools
to develop interdisciplinary curricula that fully integrate the arts
with other academic subjects.
Arts Education Partnership
www.aep-arts.org
The Arts Education Partnership (AEP) is a national coalition of arts,
education, business, philanthropic, and government organizations that
demonstrate and promote the essential role of the arts in the learning
and development of every child and in the improvement of America's schools.
Center for Arts Education
www.cae-nyc.org
The Center for Arts Education (CAE) is committed to restoring, stimulating,
and sustaining quality arts education as an essential part of every child's
education. CAE provides information and resources that demonstrate the
benefits of and need for arts education as part of a quality, balanced
education. Since its founding in 1996, CAE has awarded nearly $40 million
in private and public funding to support arts education partnerships
and programs.
DonorsChoose
www.donorschoose.org
DonorsChoose.org is an online resource where teachers describe their
need for learning materials for students to learn and the donor can
fund specific student projects that are most compelling.
New Horizons for Learning
www.newhorizons.org
New Horizons for Learning is an international network of people, programs,
and products dedicated to successful, innovative learning.
New York State Alliance for Arts Education
www.nysaae.org
The New York State Alliance for Arts Education (NYSAAE) serves a broad
constituency of arts advocates, including educators, artists, administrators
of arts organizations, parents, and interested citizens across the state.
NYSAAE disseminates information about model programs, funding, and standards
of excellence, develops training models for constituent organizations,
and advocates for arts education at the local, state, and national levels.
New York State Arts in Education
www.nysaie.com
This website is a natural outgrowth of the Arts in Education program
at the New York State Council on the Arts. It creates many paths towards
successful arts in education partnerships. Artists, educators, parents,
and students can make www.nysaie.com their first stop as they explore
the amazing power of arts in education.
Partners for Arts Education
www.arts4ed.org
Partners for Arts Education inspires learning and leadership for arts
in education in Central New York and throughout New York State. We provide
funding and support to deepen and enrich educational experiences in and
through the arts for students, teachers, and artists.
SchoolGrants
www.schoolgrants.org
SchoolGrants was created as a way to share grant information with PK-12
educators and reduces the effort by listing a variety of opportunities
available to public and private nonprofit elementary and secondary schools
and districts across the United States.
Studio in the School
www.studioinaschool.org
Studio in a School provides children with the invaluable experience and
guidance of a professional artist, high-quality art materials, in-depth
creative experience, and the joy of making art.
Teaching Artists Association
www.teachingartists.com
The Association of Teaching Artists (ATA) is a nonprofit professional
organization whose mission is to strengthen and serve teaching artists
from all disciplines in New York State.
Youth Arts New York
www.youthartsnewyork.org
Youth Arts New York is an emerging not-for-profit organization which
prepares minority and low-income New York City public high school students
for college and careers in science, medicine, health, engineering, technology
and teaching.
Publications
Arts Digest
www.artsjournal.com
The daily digest of arts, culture and ideas.
The Artists' Magazine
www.artistsmagazine.com
An online resource magazine.
ArtNews
www.artnewsonline.com
The oldest fine arts magazine.
