Service Organizations
OurGoods.org
This is OurGoods, a peer to peer network for the exchange of goods and services between artists, designers, craftspeople, and anyone with a creative project.
Check back in 2009 for a dynamic site. You will be able to upload your projects and ask for help and materials from other people. For example, I will offer my studio space in Brooklyn in exchange for photo/video assistance in documenting my next project. You can post proposals for projects that require money, space, volunteers, participants, or materials and any interested person can donate or exchange the necessary goods/services.
New York City Arts Coalition
http://www.nycityartscoalition.org/
The New York City Arts Coalition is a membership network of arts professionals and arts supporters organized for education, advocacy and public policy development in the nonprofit arts field. Membership is open to all not-for-profit arts groups, arts professionals and individual supporters of the arts. The New York City Arts Coalition promotes a broad awareness of the arts in the life of the city. It encourages leaders and elected officials to protect the creative freedom of the arts community and to support adequate appropriations for the arts in the city, state and federal budgets.
NYFA
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) gives more support to artists and arts organizations in all disciplines than any other private organization in the country. For more than three decades, NYFA has nurtured the people and environment that make art happen by providing the time and resources for the creative mind and the artistic spirit to flourish. NYFA helps artists move from the moment of inspiration to the completed work of art.
NYSCA
The Council believes in supporting the following. Artistic excellence and the creative freedom of artists without censure, and The rights of all New Yorkers to access and experience the power of the arts and culture, and the vital contribution the arts make to the quality of life in New York communities. NYSCA strives to achieve its mission through its core grant-making activity and by convening field leaders, providing information and advisory support, and working with partners on special initiatives to achieve mutual goals.
Pentacle
For over 30 years, Pentacle has served the performing arts community as a leading resource and voice for emerging, minority, experimental, non-mainstream artists and companies. Pentacle offers a core of managerial and marketplace services, and administers model projects of national, regional and local scope. Booking: Our most widely used and currently needed service, Pentacle offers exposure for the artists in both the national and international marketplaces.
Rhizome.org
Rhizome.org is an online platform for the global new media art community. Our programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways. We foster innovation and inclusiveness in everything we do.
The Actor's Fund
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.
The Field
The Field's mission is to serve independent performing artists on a completely non-exclusive basis. This means that everything we do is open to artists from all aesthetic viewpoints, cultural backgrounds, and levels of development. Our priority is to create a climate where risk-taking and originality are championed, and where the broadest range of voices are included. Field programs are affordable, accessible, and rigorous. To support independent performing artists, The Field's programs are directed toward the creation of new work and its dissemination.
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
VLA delivers pro bono and low cost legal services and information to over 10,000 members of the arts community each year.VLA plays an important role in educating individual artists, arts professionals within arts and cultural institutions, attorneys, students and the general public about legal and business issues that affect artistic and creative endeavors. MediateArt pairs artists with mediators to mediate or resolve arts-related disputes outside the traditional legal framework.
651 Arts
What happens on stage is only one part of 651 ARTS' annual program. Since 1988, we've been dedicated to enriching our cultural community. Whether connecting an African performance company with American audiences, providing funding and support for promising new artists, or creating a network of local arts organizations, we offer diverse and exciting performances, events and programs