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smARTstart

smARTstart is a compendium of online information resources from the Arts & Business Council of Chicago that addresses many of the questions that emerging and small arts organizations have about operating as a not-for-profit organization.
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Selected Articles

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 Chicago-City Links

Arts & Business Council of Chicago
Conducts business workshops and other events for arts organizations. An excellent local resource for best-business practices in the arts.
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Selected National/International Links

Art & Business Council of America for the Arts
This organization stimulates partnerships between the arts and business that strengthens both sectors in the communities they serve.
Artsmarketing.org
Helps to address the daily and long-term marketing needs of arts organizations, and organizes practical marketing information in a format that is easily accessible to all levels of arts marketers and administrators.
Dance NYC: Operating Your Dance Company
A short list of helpful articles about operating a dance company, from navigating immigration laws to touring info and promotion.
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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.

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