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smARTstart

smARTstart is a compendium of on-line resources that addresses questions that emerging and small arts organizations might have about operating as a not-for-profit organization.  Inspired by and adapted from the Virtual Arts Incubator (VAI) project developed by the Arts Services Office at the Cincinnati Fine Arts Fund, smARTstart draws from VAI material, additional material developed by expert legal, nonprofit and business volunteers in Chicago, and on-line resources available through arts service providers from around the country.  By culling from the best resources available on-line more...

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Defining Your Brand Identity: What business are you in?

What business are you in?


It's a deceptively simple question. And it isn't a rhetorical one, either. At last June's Dance/USA Roundtable in Miami, opening keynote speaker Alberto Ibargüen, editor of The Miami Herald, urged every attendee to consider the question seriously. Are you primarily an entertainer, he prompted, or an employer? "What," he asked, "do you stand for?"

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Selected National/International Links

Selected NYFA Requests

Business/Legal Information: Dance

Courtesy of New York Foundation for the Arts and their NYFA Source national database of awards services and publications for the arts.