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On-line tutorial on starting a theatre company, including developing a mission statement, steps to forming a nonprofit organization, sample articles of incorporation and bylaws, and tips on budgets, developing audience, press, and marketing strategies.

Bridge loans, equipment leasing, and incorporation services to qualifying artists.

Online database of over 200 professionals in the state of Illinois.

Independent artists and small arts organizations are eligible for membership in Fractured Atlas. Member services include fiscal sponsorship, grants, and access to health insurance, information, publicity, subsidized rehearsal space rental, workshops, and technical support. Subsidized legal services/consultations available in 501c3 filing, contracts, non-profit incorporation and federal trademark application and prosecution.

Advice for artists on taxes and a range of business and financial issues.

Unlike other writers' handbooks, the NWU Guide focuses its aim on the business of writing. The information it presents is solidly grounded in the experience of working freelance writers.

The standard reference to all phases of managing a musician's career from both the artist's and manager's point of view. Topics include initiating and developing the artist-manager relationship, the management contract, assessing and mapping out the artist's career plan, getting a record deal, understanding the basics of music publishing, money management, and financial planning.