Now Hiring — Software Engineer, Ruby on Rails

POSITION: Software Engineer, Ruby on Rails
POSTED: January 15, 2013
DEADLINE: February 1, 2013

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Meet the Project: donkeysaddle projects

Each month we will feature one of our fiscally sponsored projects who have been successful at using our program to advance their art/cause/career. January’s featured project is donkeysaddle projects.
donkeysaddle projects has been sponsored by Fractured Atlas since May 2007 and it’s a truly multidisciplinary effort. Founder Jen Marlowe uses film, theatre and creative [...]

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Upcoming Grant Deadlines

For all opportunities, please visit the website of the Foundation for application instructions and complete guidelines.
Artadia is accepting applications for Artadia Awards 2013 San Francisco Bay Area
Who they fund:
Visual artists living and working in the five-county San Francisco Bay Area: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo. Individual artists [...]

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On Dasher, On Dancer, On WordPress, and Vixen!

Are all those $1,000 checks from your year-end appeal cluttering up your desk? That’s rough. Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a ‘Donate’ button right on your website? And those donations were automatically logged in your database?
*AHem…cough cough…Artful.ly!*
Tired of carting your patrons off to other sites to buy tickets? Wouldn’t it [...]

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The Problem with “New Models”

Over the summer, Michael Kaiser published a series of posts complaining about a lack of specificity in the ongoing chatter about a need for “new models” in the arts. I responded on this blog, both times, with my own thoughts on the subject.
Last week, Kaiser published another post in which the critics are once again [...]

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Now Hiring: Program Specialist, Archipelago

POSITION: Program Specialist, Archipelago
POSTED: December 12, 2012
DEADLINE: January 2, 2013

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Extending Financial Capital to Artists in the US with Kiva Zip

This guest blog post is from Justin Renfro from Kiva Zip.  Please contact Justin at Justin@volunteers.kiva.org with any questions.
You might have heard about Kiva before. The global non-profit based in San Francisco connects lenders from around the world with entrepreneurs who can benefit from a small loan to start or grow their business. They’ve funded [...]

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Bring Your Data Baggage with You!

“Importing is one of the circles of hell for software programmers,” Clinton, one of our programmers, recently explained to me.
See, the thing is, when programmers first build a new software application like Artful.ly, they get to dictate how data gets added to their system. They build tidy little square holes and allow hypothetical [...]

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Hurricane Response Grants

Mertz Gilmore Foundation’s NYC Dance Response Fund
In response to Hurricane Sandy and to early field testimony collected by Dance/NYC and its colleagues in service and grantmaking, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation has established a NYC Dance Response Fund to be administered by Dance/NYC, a branch of Dance/USA, the national service organization for professional dance.
Who they fund:
This [...]

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Career Change for Performers: Plateaus, Passion, and Proactive Support

(Scroll down to find out about next week’s free career events for performers in NYC!)
I’ve heard it said more than once that performing is the gateway drug to a career in the arts.
That was my story, as it was for most of my arts and entertainment industry colleagues – many of you who work on [...]

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