Service: Nonprofit Counseling
- AMERINDA (American Indian Artists) All Counties
- American Indian Artists (AMERINDA) works to empower Native Americans, break down barriers, and foster intercultural understanding and appreciation of Native culture. Through a variety of arts programs, productions, and services to artists, AMERINDA supports Native artists who embody the traditional practices and values that define Native culture. AMERINDA also promotes the indigenous perspective in the arts to a wide audience through the creation of new works in contemporary art forms-visual, literary, performing, and media arts.
- Babylon Citizens' Council on the Arts Suffolk County
- The Babylon Citizens Council on the Arts (Bacca) was founded in 1974 with the mission to provide a variety of cultural programs and services to residents of the Town of Babylon and surrounding communities. It is Bacca's intent to enhance the lives of community members who enjoy and participate in the arts along with those people whose careers and avocations are in the arts. We are dedicated to developing and providing services and programs in all art genres that are not available elsewhere on Long Island. Bacca's programs include fine art classes, writing workshops, lectures, live theater, concerts, art exhibitions, children's programs, photography exhibitions, book discussion groups, film forums and cultural festivals. Bacca also provides services to artists including grant research and writing assistance, opportunities to exhibit work at businesses in the community, maintenance of an artists registry and listings in Bacca newsletters of upcoming exhibitions.
- Brooklyn Arts Council Kings (Brooklyn) County
- The Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) is a service organization dedicated to helping artists, arts organizations and community groups promote and sustain the arts. BAC is unique in the borough in that it assists artists -- both amateur and professional -- in all disciplines. In the firm belief that culture contributes to the health of the community, BAC takes a leadership role in creating an environment conducive to the arts, and provides grants, resources, referrals, networking opportunities, seminars and other activities that support and encourage the arts.
- Broome County Arts Council Broome County
- The purpose of the Broome County Arts Council is to act as a catalyst and coordinator to preserve local cultural heritage and to develop, enhance, advance and sustain the muti-cultural life of the Broome County area, providing the community, and particularly its artists, arts organizations and educational institutions, with a network of support services.
- Chenango County Council of the Arts Chenango County
- The mission of the Chenango County Council of the Arts is to support and encourage participation in and appreciation of the arts and humanities in Chenango County.
- Columbia County Council on the Arts Columbia County
- The mission of the Columbia County Council on the Arts is to provide services that support our county's cultural organizations, artists and resident participation in the arts; produce programs that advance the arts and engage our county's residents and visitors; and build collaborative partnerships within the county and beyond so that our vision becomes a reality.
- Dance Giant Steps Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Queens, Richmond (Staten Island) Counties
- Dance Giant Steps is a service organization and presenter, founded in 1979 and incorporated in 1981 by educators, dancers and other artists. Our mission is to promote the development of the art of dance in New York. Our goals are achieved in an evolutionary manner and especially through the various projects that serve to expand the role of artists of color in our diverse communities.
- Nonprofit Connection Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Queens, Richmond (Staten Island) Counties
- Nonprofit Connection was founded upon and continues to operate from a position of social responsibility. For the past 25 years, we have helped nonprofit organizations that serve New York City to address critical organizational development issues, become better managed, more accountable and ultimately, deliver more effective and efficient services to their communities. Our mission is to build and strenghten the capacity of nonprofit organizations that serve New York City's diverse communities through management assistance, consultations, training and access to resources.
- NYS ARTS All Counties
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As a service and advocacy leader in New York State for more than 30 years, the Alliance of NYS ARTS Organizations is at the forefront with lively networking gatherings, groundbreaking professional training programs, and an expansive Web-based communications network.
Services include: Annual Arts Summit; professional training for arts leaders and artists using webinars and blog; monthly Member Memos, Regional Captain Network of arts leaders that covers 58 of the state’s 62 counties; Regional meetings; Rurals Program that supports 34 organizations serving 40 upstate counties; rural workshops to train upstate arts administrators; the Harlem Project to train the next generation of arts leaders and bring diverse voices to arts advocacy; staff site visits, consultancies and referrals.
Advocacy and public policy initiatives include: lobbying to increase the NYSCA budget; Arts Day in Albany with Arts Showcase featuring organizations and performers; Local Advocacy Week with almost 50 events statewide; Online Advocacy Center; Online Rally for arts advocates to make their voices heard in Albany; online publications including Advocacy Handbook; 475,000 e-mails to our online database of 8,500 arts organizations; State Captain for NY and leads the NYS delegation of arts advocates in Washington DC; represent NYS in national advocacy forums. - Putnam Arts Council Putnam County
- The Putnam Arts Council (PAC) is a not-for-profit arts service organization chartered in 1963 by the New York State Department of Education. Its mission is to promote, foster and encourage the arts in all forms in Putnam County and its environs.
