Artist Support

National Organizations:

Americans for the Arts
http://www.artsusa.org/

Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. With 45 years of service, we are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts.

Arts Consulting Group
http://www.artsconsulting.com/home.html

Cultural Policy & the Arts (CPANDA)
http://www.cpanda.org/

CPANDA, the Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive, is the world's first interactive digital archive of policy-relevant data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States. The core mission of the CPANDA is to acquire, archive, document and preserve high quality data sets on key topics in arts and cultural policy, and make them available in a user-friendly format to scholars, journalists, policy makers, artists, cultural organizations, and the public.

National Arts Strategies
http://www.artstrategies.org/

National Arts Strategies has been working with leaders in arts and culture for more than two decades. We've seen that a dynamic, sustainable arts community comes from the vision and effort of skilled leaders. In our executive education programs arts leaders explore the toughest challenges facing organizations today, and learn from some of the leading business school faculty in the United States. The experience is interactive and engaging, respectful but demanding. And it brings the best thinking from outside the arts sector into the community, challenging arts leaders to take a fresh look at their organizations.

Theatre Communications Group
http://www.tcg.org/

Mission: To strengthen, nurture and promote the professional not-for-profit American theatre.

Association of Performing Arts Presenters
http://www.artspresenters.org/

The Association of Performing Arts Presenters is a membership organization, dedicated to bringing performing artists and audiences together in every place and way imaginable. The Association achieves its goal by providing visionary thinking, professional development, resource sharing, and advocacy, in support of its members and all those who create and disseminate the performing arts.

Actors Fund
http://www.actorsfund.org/

The Actors Fund is a 125 year-old national human services organization. Founded in 1882, it serves everyone (and not just actors) who works in entertainment and the performng arts - film, theater, television, music, opera, and dance, and has offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. The Fund directly serves approximately 8,000 entertainment professions annually across the United States and more than 400,000 more through web-based and phone-based resource programs. Actors Fund services and care are wide in scope, responsice in nature, and produce significant resuls, affecting the lives of those in our comunity in need, crisis, or transition on a consistent basis, year in and year out.