Resources for Organizations/Arts Administrators

Links to resources such as assessment, arts listservs and e-newsletters, articles of interest, nonprofit resources and more.

Mortgage Loan.com It's a comprehensive guide to housing and mortgages for people with disabilities. It covers terminology, the process of buying a house, financial assistance and more.

The Arts & Business Council of Greater Phoenix (A&BC) links the vitality and expertise of the business community to non-profit arts and cultural organizations to the benefit of both individually and our community as a whole. Originally chartered to specifically develop and administer the volunteer match program known as Business Volunteers for the Arts (BVA), the organization has grown to offer a broader range of services. In addition to the BVA and educational programs, the Council has become a one-stop shop for the arts by including opportunities for governance training, new educational opportunities for artists, and functioning as a strategic partner for capacity building.

http://www.nea.gov/news/news06/CivicEngagement.html

Applying for 501(c) Status - The IRS has created a new website (www.stayexempt.org) that enables new organizations to apply for 501(c) status without using a lawyer. It is helpful and easy to follow and recommended for those who work with emerging organizations.

The 2006-2007 Cultural Facilities Resource Guide - A directory of Phoenix area facilities available for rent by arts organizations and artists for performances, exhibits, rehearsals, workshops and meetings is now available on-line at www.phoenix.gov/ARTFACIL/ The Guide features detailed, comprehensive information on: 27 Performance Spaces, 10 Exhibition Spaces, 9 City Library and Community Center Spaces. The Guide also features Indices to help narrow your search based on: Seating Capacity, Geographic Location, Accessibility Services. Have a Space you'd like to add to the Guide?  You can do it online--just fill out a Facility Survey Form.

Volunteer Legal Assistance for the Arts in Arizona (http://www.artsadvocacy.org/) information on various important topics and resources. Email ARTS@asu.edu

Creative Approaches to Economic Research is now available online! By visiting NASAA's Creative Economy Resource Center, you can view the slides, read the transcript, check out profiles of state arts agencies initiatives, and download many valuable resources. We encourage you to share these materials with your colleagues. Creative Economy Resource Center: http://www.nasaa-arts.org/artworks/creative_economy.shtml e-NASAA Transcript [PDF]: http://www.nasaa-arts.org/artworks/enasaa_transcript.pdf

On-Line Nonprofit Board Assessment Tools - At least two organizations now offer on-line tools to help you assess your board and/or benchmark your board of directors in the areas of leadership, the role of the ED, and board structure and composition.  Board members can complete the necessary questionnaire anytime they want as long as they have access to the Internet.  Check out these firms:  Board Source at http://www.boardsource.org/ViewBookStoreItem.asp?ID=130 and The Board Institute at www.theboardinstitute.com/web/products.asp?f=prod_bix

Americans for the Arts Monthly Wire - Arts news, publications, websites, opportunities, events, jobs and more. To subscribe: 202.371.2830. E-mail: events@artsusa.org,  www.AmericansForTheArts.org

HERITAGE PRESERVATION UPDATE - www.heritagepreservation.org/Update/03fall.htm - The Fall issue of Update addresses how the Heritage Emergency National Task Force responded to Hurricane Isabel; what an SOS! survey discovered about the condition of America's contemporary outdoor, and more.

COMMUNITY ARTS NETWORK - www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archive/intro-visart.php - Power and Mastery: Negotiations in Community-Based Visual Art—written by Neill Bogan, an artist whose own projects deal with place, power, and memory in performance, visual art, and interdisciplinary public art venues—looks at new Web-based community art, new collaboratives and collectives, community narrative, and the "mastery" of the community itself.

CENTER FOR AN URBAN FUTURE - www.nycfuture.org - The Big Idea: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Effective Policy Reports offers a step-by-step approach for developing savvy policy reports and a communications strategy focused on results. Speak Up: Tips on Advocacy for Publicly Funded Nonprofits provides tips and examples for nonprofits looking to better represent their clients and communities through advocacy. [www.culturalpolicy.org]

The Field's GoTour - Created by The Field, a New York City-based non-profit arts service organization, GoTour is a new website for independent performing artists, arts administrators, and audiences nationwide. It is a resource for those who create, support, and/or love dance, theater, music, performance art, spoken word, and multidisciplinary art work. Visit the website: www.gotour.org. To learn more about The Field visit www.thefield.org. Funding for GoTour has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Con Edison, The J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, and individual contributors.

ASU Downtown Lecture Series - The ASU College of Extended Education presents ongoing opportunities to enrich your professional and personal development. For a schedule of lectures - visit our website www.asu.edu/xed/lectures

Planetizen.com (www.planetizen.com/sites) a valuable resource for anyone interested in urban development, has announced its top 50 websites for 2003. Smart City (www.smartcityradio.com), the syndicated public radio interview program hosted and produced by Manifesto Summit organizer Carol Coletta, is on the list. Also on the list is Next American City (www.americancity.org), whose editor-in-chief Adam Gordon was a presenter at the Summit and member of the Creative 100.

National Art Education Association (www.naea-reston.org) The NAEA now has online NAEA Advisorys selected from the collection over the last 15 years, and which focus on advocacy and policy development.

Community Arts Network (www.rootsreader.org) Since 1987, CAN and its predecessor, High Performance magazine, have published many stories by and about the members of Alternate ROOTS, a coalition of artists and activists working for social justice in southeastern U.S. communities. Now it has the ROOTS Reader, a Web anthology of these articles, plus more culled from ROOTS publications and other sources.

Arizona Nonprofit Capacity Building Websites - Arizona-based websites useful for capacity building efforts. Published by the Arizona Nonprofit Community Report, organized by Scott Sheldon. Updated Sept 2002

• Advocacy: Arizona Advocacy Network

• Education: Nonprofit Management Institute at ASU, ASU Center for Nonprofit Leadership & Management

• Community Building: The Community Forum

• Finance/Accounting: Arizona Society of CPA's (nonprofit division), Nonprofit Organizations' Financial Administrators' Network

• Flagstaff: Community Resource Connections

• Foundations: Arizona Community Foundation, Arizona Grantmakers Forum, The Flinn Foundation, Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, St. Luke's Health Initiatives

• Fundraising/Networking: Association of Fundraising Professionals

• Grants/Grantsmanship: Arizona Commission on the Arts, Arizona Common Grant Application, Arizona Humanities Council, Arizona Prevention Resource Center, Just Grants Arizona, University of Arizona Grantsmanship Institute

• Leadership: Leadership Development Services, Leader's Program for Community Organizations, Valley Leadership

• Listservs (Arizona Nonprofit Specific): AZ-NPO's (Charity Channel)

• Media - Nonprofit: City of Phoenix Media Resource Directory, FinderBinder

• National Service: National Service in Arizona

• Networking: Organization of Nonprofit Executives

• Nonprofit Consultants: Acucomm, Arizona Nonprofit Consultants, Help4Nonprofits

• Nonprofit Email Newsletters:  Arizona Nonprofit Community Report, Scott Sheldon, Editor, By the Seat of Our Pants, Debbie Stewart, Editor

• Nonprofit Jobs in Arizona: Arizona Commission on the Arts, Arizona Nonprofit Community Report, Scott Sheldon, Editor, Just Grants Arizona

• Nonprofit Statistics: National Center for Charitable Statistics

• Planned Giving: Leave a Legacy Arizona

• Social Venture: Social Venture Partners Arizona

• Special Events: Arizona Red Book, Great American Merchandise & Games

• Starting A Nonprofit in Arizona: State of Arizona Nonprofit Checklist, How to Start a Nonprofit in Arizona

• Technology/Digital Divide: Central Arizona Electronic Village, Information Technology Assoc of Southern Arizona, NPower

• Training: Arizona Society of Association Executives, Institute of Cultural Affairs, Nonprofit Management Institute at ASU

• Tucson: Tucson-Pima Public Library Grants & Nonprofit Info Center

• Volunteering: AZTechCares, Business Volunteers for the Arts, Developing Minds, Make a Difference, Volunteer Center of Phoenix, Volunteer Center of Tucson

Know of other Arizona-based websites that should be added to this list? Send an email to ssheldon@asu.edu and we will include your recommendations in our next monthly edition. Any capacity building group, etc. that you recommend must have a website.

Arizona Nonprofit Community Report - Free! Sign up by email.

ArtAngels.org - An interesting website that connects people with arts organizations as audiences, donors and volunteers.

ASU Links to Funding Databases - Free website that can provide your nonprofit with some potential funding leads.

Free Management Library - Complete, highly integrated library for nonprofits and for-profits includes 72 popular categories of topics and an index of 675 topics.

Funds Net Services - A wealth of information on foundations and corporations that support the arts.

Independent Sector - Boards.

Just Grants! Arizona - Free newsletter for news, tools and resources about grantseeking and grantmaking in Arizona. Also available, Arizona Guide to Grants & Giving, in print and searchable web guide, and workshops.

Media Access Guide for Nonprofit Organizations - Ideas, suggestions and samples on how to approach the media. Published for free by San Francisco-based KRON-TV 4.

Americans for the Arts (AFTA)

• Current Activities for Organizations: Performing Arts Research Coalition is testing in four cities across the country and the state of Alaska an innovative strategy to solicit patrons' opinions about their arts experience and the contributions the arts make to their communities. The result will be comprehensive, standardized information that can be compared across participating member organizations, disciplines, and cities. The project also will help the arts world develop a national model for arts research collaboration. 

• Opportunities for Artists & Opportunities for Organizations: American Music Center - the 10th edition of Opportunities in New Music, the American Music Center's catalog of ongoing American and foreign competitions, grants, awards, commissioning programs, workshops, calls for scores, artist colonies, etc., is now available.

• Opportunities for Organizations & Schools: Handspring Foundation will make grants to nonprofits that focus on issues directly related to at-risk children and youth. Skoll Community Fund Endowment  - deadline: ongoing. The Fund supports local, national, and international nonprofits whose work is based on empowering communities and awards grants in the areas of micro-enterprise and economic development, learning and education, technology, and philanthropy. Mama Foundation - deadline: ongoing. Produces digital recordings of the finest jazz and big band musicians that commercial labels are passing up and provide complimentary copies to U.S. accredited colleges and universities with a degree in music or musicology and to high schools or programs servicing high schools that have shown an exceptional commitment to jazz education.

• Publications: Increased Cultural Participation and Arts Audiences - New Fundamentals and Practices to Increase Cultural Participation and Develop Arts Audiences presents fundamentals and practices that can increase the number of participants and audiences, deepen the participation of current participants, and reach the next generation of adult participants. Creating a Culture of Inquiry: Changing Methods--and Minds--on the Use of Evaluation in Nonprofit Organizations describes the results of the Working on Workforce Development Project, a two-year experiment to help nonprofit organizations better use the tool of evaluation.

• Accessibility: Accessible Arts works with educators, caregivers, and organizations to facilitate making the arts accessible to and participatory for children and adults with disabilities. American Art Therapy Association provides standards of professional competence and developing and promoting knowledge in and of, the field of art therapy.

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So Where is that Law Anyway? - Eric Mercer's well-compiled list of links to many federal and state nonprofit regulations.  Indispensable when looking up the law.

Starting a Nonprofit Organization - Looking for a comprehensive resource on how to start a nonprofit organization?

Tag Team Consulting - If you are a small non-profit needing help with your accounting and bookkeeping, we offer comprehensive services including needs assessments, as well as ongoing bookkeeping services and payroll tax services.

Tempe Arts - Mailing list for news and events delivered right to your email box.

TPAC Picks - This weekly short list of selected events from our online calendar is a new service to the community from the Tucson Pima Arts Council. Send an email to tpacpicks@tucsonpimaartscouncil.org to subscribe. For a full listing of events, or to enter your own event in our community calendar, go to http://www.tucsonpimaartscouncil.org/Calendar/cal.html

Valley Media Resource Directory - The Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture's PR tips.

Web Resource on Funding Opportunities - Assists nonprofit arts organizations in identifying potential federal support for cultural projects and accessing that support.

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