TOOLBOX ARTICLE: Fundraising Advice for Individuals http://www.toolbox.creative-capital.org/articles/individualfundraising.html
In this article, Creative Capital Associate Director Alyson Pou discusses tips
for artists on how to apply for grants, how to build on grants received, and
how to implement strategic planning strategies.
Asian American Arts Alliance http://aaartsalliance.org
Asian American Arts Alliance is a membership organization that supports Asian American artists and groups by offering grants, technical assistance, information services, and through sponsoring events.
Selected Resources for Grantseekers
Environmental Grantmakers Association http://www.ega.org/
The Environmental Grantmakers Association, a voluntary association of foundations
and giving programs concerned with the protection of the natural environment,
works to increase awareness of the relationships between environmental
grantmaking and other areas of grantmaking and to encourage all types of philanthropic
programs to support environmentally related activities.
The Field http://www.thefield.org
The Field is a membership organization offering programs that help independent
artists create new artwork, manage their careers, and develop long-range strategies
for sustaining a life in the arts. For the public, they produce several performance
series. Each year, The Field serves over 1,000 artists in the disciplines of
dance, theater, music, text, performance art and film/video. The Field provides
comprehensive programming for New York artists on a non-curated basis, open to
artists from all aesthetic viewpoints and levels of development. The Field's
creative programs include "Fieldwork" workshops, "Artward Bound" residencies,
and a video-editing training program. The Field's management programs include
workshops on individual management skills, group management, writing about work,
grant writing, consultation, and non-profit sponsorship. The Field publishes
several industry guides, including Space Chase (a guide to performance and rehearsal
spaces in New York City, as well as a compilation of out-of-town festivals, residencies
and artist colonies), Funding Guide, Self-Production Guide, and Gone
With the Field Guide (describes alternative performing possibilities for
independent artists in select cities across the United States. It can be useful
for setting up tours or as a preliminary introduction to other artistic communities).
Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues
http://www.lgbtfunders.org/lgbtfunders/
Founded in 1982 as the Working Group on Funding Lesbian and Gay Issues, FLGI
works to increase the visibility of and funding for lesbian and gay issues in
the philanthropic community.
The Fund for Women Artists http://www.womenarts.org/ The mission of The Fund for Women Artists is to increase the diversity and
employment of women in the arts, with an emphasis in on women working in theater,
film, and video. The Fund for Women Artists offers fiscal sponsorship services
to women artists in or near Massachusetts who may be working in other art forms
or who may need a short-term affiliation with a non-profit organization. Their
major new initiative is a "theatre roster," designed to help diverse
women artists earn more money through touring and build larger audiences for
their work by encouraging colleges and cultural centers to book five selected
artists for residencies, workshops, and performances. It will also provide grant-writing
assistance to the artists to help them raise funds for their script development
projects.
The Foundation Center http://www.fdncenter.org/
The Foundation Center is an independent national service organization established
by foundations in 1956. Their mission is to support and improve institutional
philanthropy by maintaining a comprehensive and up-to-date database on foundations
and corporate giving; by providing free educational programs as well as fee-based
training and other services; by maintaining a content-rich Web site; and by tracking
and analyzing trends in foundation growth and giving. The Center publishes FC
Search: The Foundation Center’s Database on CD-ROM, The Foundation
Directory—the reference work for grantseekers, available on CD-ROM,
online, and in print—and some 50 other directories, guides, and reports.
They offer information and expert reference services to the public at five Foundation
Center libraries and more than 200 cooperating collections across the country.
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees http://www.gcir.org/
Established in 1990, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR)
is a national network of more than 175 foundation staff and trustees representing
115 foundations with diverse grantmaking interests and geographic areas of focus.
GCIR promotes awareness and understanding among grantmakers about national and
international migration trends and public policies and other issues affecting
immigrants and refugees, and works to increase financial support for projects
and activities benefiting immigrant and refugee communities.
Hispanics in Philanthropy http://www.hiponline.org/
Hispanics in Philanthropy is an association of more than 450 U.S. and Latin American
grantmakers and nonprofit leaders committed to increasing philanthropic support
of Latino communities and to promoting greater participation by Latinos within
organized philanthropy. HIP seeks to increase Latino representation on foundation
staff and boards, promotes efforts to strengthen the Latino nonprofit sector,
develops cross border exchanges between Latin American and U.S. foundations,
and educates grantmakers about issues affecting Latino communities.
National Endowment for the Arts http://arts.endow.gov/
The National Endowment for the Arts gives $5,000-$100,000 project grants to promote artistic creativity, improve organizational capacity, enhance access to artwork, educate youth about the arts, and preserve cultural heritage. Artist fellowships have been reduced greatly in recent years, but are still available in three categories: Literature, American Jazz Masters, and National Heritage (for folk and traditional artists). Other funding opportunities include "leadership initiative" grants for nonprofit organizations, and public partnerships with regional arts councils.
The NEA's Lessons Learned program [ http://www.arts.gov/resources/Lessons ] offers a compendium of information on how to efficiently run an arts nonprofit in music, theatre, dance, visual arts, literature, and folk arts. Essays and case studies emphasize the importance of organizational planning budgeting, devising survival strategies, and adapting to suit the needs of a community.
NYFA Source http://www.nyfa.org
Free of charge and open to artists across America, the New York Foundation
on the Arts has created NYFA Source, the most extensive national database of
awards, services, and publications for artists of all disciplines. Artists,
arts organizations, and the general public can access information on over 2,600
arts organizations, 2,700 award programs, 2,100 service programs, and 700 publications
for individual artists nationwide, with more programs added every day. NYFA's
former Visual Artist Information Hotline, a popular information service used
by more than 38,000 visual artists last year, was expanded to create NYFA Source.
NYFA Source will also enable arts funders, researchers and policymakers to
acquire information about patterns and trends in artists' support.
