Service: Advocacy
- Academy of American Poets All Counties
- The Academy of American Poets was founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary American poetry.
- American Friends of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Queens, Richmond (Staten Island) Counties
- The American Friends of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba builds cultural bridges between the United States and Cuba and provides opportunities to promote and foster the exchange of ideas and information through art. Aimed to enrich and expand creative expressions, the group creates and sponsors exchange programs by offering residencies, internships, educational exchanges and cultural festivals in contemporary fine art, photography, film, video and the performing arts.
- American Symphony Orchestra League All Counties
- The mission of the American Symphony Orchestra League is to provide leadership and service to American orchestras while communicating to the American public the value and importance of orchestras and the music they perform. Founded in 1942, the league serves more than 900 member symphony, chamber, youth, and university orchestras of all sizes, and supports a network of thousands of musicians, conductors, managers, board members, volunteers, staff members and business partners. Within New York State, the league currently provides service to 64 orchestras, 63 business members, 15 libraries, 11 non-profit organizations, 3 placement centers and 314 individual members.
- Arts & Cultural Council of Greater Rochester Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Wayne Counties
- The mission of the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester is to develop, promote and strengthen the cultural industry for the benefit of the people of the Rochester region.
- Arts & Culture for Oswego County Oswego County
- Arts and Culture for Oswego County (ACOC) is a non-profit, multi-arts service organization which exists to advocate for the arts; to provide services designed to enhance the professional development of individual artists and the programming of cultural organizations; and to develop awareness and appreciation of the arts and culture among county residents.
- Arts Council for Chautauqua County Chautauqua County
- Recognizing that a community which encourages, supports and fosters the arts empowers its citizens to think, work and live creatively, the Arts Council for Chautauqua County works to provide an environment in which the arts thrive. In support of its mission, the council's first goal is to facilitate the integration of art in the community and promote art/artists and arts organizations with four foci: support for art/artists/art community; integration of arts as education; improvement and preservation of the physical environment; connection to economic and community development. The second goal of the organization is to continue to explore and model what it means to be a cultural institution in a changing environment that has a preference for cooperation rather than competition, and "servant leadership," as the ambition for its role.
- Arts Council for the Northern Adirondacks Essex, Franklin Counties
- The mission of the Arts Council for the Northern Adirondacks is to promote, encourage, develop and sustain cultural activities in the region; to facilitate the sharing of information; to provide technical assistance to emerging and established cultural organizations and artists; to assist the artist and the public in obtaining the resources and publicity necessary for a healthy cultural community; and to deliver cultural programs to fulfill our mission (but not compete with existing programs) in order to make the arts more central to the lives of the widest possible group of people.
- Arts Council for Wyoming County Wyoming County
- The mission of the Arts Council for Wyoming County is to enable unlimited opportunity for artists to create, and for the community to engage in, the arts. We strive to do this by: providing services to artists to foster their development; presenting programs to stimulate interaction between artists and the community; empowering other organizations to engage in artistic presentation; and promoting awareness and support of the arts through advocacy.
- Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Wayne Counties
- The Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County is a primary advocate for the arts and is dedicated to promoting the cultural industry within the Buffalo Niagara region. The council exists to nurture and advance all artistic disciplines and to encourage participation in the arts by all segments of the community. This mission is achieved through our six different re-grant programs (DEC, NYFA SOS, KeyBank Community Arts, Cultural Arts Stabilization and Technology, NYSCA AIE and DEC Tiers), as well as our TA Program, Gallery program for emerging and under recognized artists, Resource Room, website and advocacy efforts. The council offers individual artist funding in five different counties through the SOS program (Erie, Niagara, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Chautauqua); two counties for the Arts-in-Education program (Erie and Niagara) and eight counties for the Special Arts Services Technical Assistance initiative (Erie, Niagara, Monroe, Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Wayne and Livingston).
- Arts Engine All Counties
- Arts Engine's mission is to produce and foster the distribution of media that has artistic value and addresses issues and populations underrepresented in mainstream media. A major component of Arts Engine's activities is www.mediarights.org a Web site designed to link social issue film and video makers with nonprofit organizations and educational institutions across the United States.
