Do you love our fiscal sponsorship program? Do you want to learn more about different types of fundraising? Hear different opinions how online fundraising technologies are changing things for independent artists and arts groups. Some of the brightest minds in the arts sector are getting together for Fundraising in a Box: Crowdsourcing Microgrants on September 23rd. [...]
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Tags: fiscal sponsorship, fundraising, professional development
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A few days ago, I returned from spending almost two weeks in the Twin Cities (mainly St. Paul) and its surrounds. I once again found the community to be compellingly different than anything else I’ve experienced (in a good way!).
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Tags: ATHENA, ATHENA Tix, community design, Minneapolis, Open Arts Network, public art, theater
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This month our board approved 95 projects from 22 states. Check them out!
“The Kangaroo”
A Curious Workshop
A Vehicle for Change
Aces Wild Theatre
American Roots Music Documentaries
Animal Parts Theater Group
ArtCrawl Harlem
Billboard
Blue Room Arts Collective
Brandywine Distillery Fire
Brown Pelican
Builders for PEace
BURN: One Year on the Front Lines of the Battle to Save Detroit
Catalyst Arts Performance and Production
Category 7 Performance
Chris [...]
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From the good people at Philanthropy Reports comes this video about the non-profit sector. This is great ammunition for the next time someone tells you that non-profits aren’t real businesses.
(If the embedded video isn’t appearing for you, watch it online here.)
via Tactical Philanthropy
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Tags: business, non-profit
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A national nonprofit organization, Creative Capital works in long-term partnership with artists using a non-traditional approach to support that combines funding, counsel and career development services to enable a project’s success and foster sustainable practices for its grantees.
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Tags: film, grants, literature, Open Arts Network, performance art, video, visual arts
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Fractured Atlas is offering four different free fiscal sponsorship and fundraising sessions by webinar in September. If you’ve never participated in a webinar before, there’s no need to worry - it’s quite easy. All you need is access to the internet and a phone.
Introduction to Fiscal Sponsorship Webinar
This webinar is [...]
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Tags: crowdfunding, fiscal sponsorship, fundraising, grants, individual donors, online campaigns, webinar
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The Saartjie Project is a Washington, DC-based artist collective producing and developing performance art through collaborative processes. Committed to working together consistently to develop a distinct body of work and practices that reflects who they are — black women poets, singers, performance artists, visual artists and dancers — they gather to create and share dynamic art that explores the intersections of their experiences.
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Tags: calendar of events, fiscal sponsorship, Fractured U., member profile, theater, Washington DC
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We need your votes!
Justin Karr (our amazing Director of Technology Programs) and I have proposed panels for the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival taking place in March of 2011 in Austin, Texas. The SXSW festival and conference is a convergence of music, independent films, emerging technologies and more. The panel picker process allows the [...]
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Tags: collaboration, community design, conference, crowdsourcing, festival, fundraising, microgrants, South by Southwest, Texas
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We’re pleased to welcome the newest members of the insurance portion of the Fractured Atlas family! Check out the Pocket Guides to Insurance for the Arts at:
www.arts-insurance.info
The Pocket Guides are adorable, fun, discipline-specific guides to the most important types of insurance to consider as you create your art. Hopefully, they will help you not only [...]
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Accomplished jazz pianist and composer Helen Sung has had the privilege of working with many of the living jazz greats. A member of Fractured Atlas for the last seven years, she is currently in residence at Flushing Town Hall in Queens, New York, and will perform at the Tokyo Jazz Festival in September.
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Tags: artists in residence, fiscal sponsorship, health insurance, jazz, member profile, music, NYC Performing Arts Spaces, piano
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