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ABACA/Arts Benefit All Coalition Alternative
ABACA (Arts Benefit All Coalition Alternative) was created in 1992 to enhance student academic achievement, broaden student cultural horizons and build self esteem through experiences of success in visual and performing arts learning and training.
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.
Adirondack Architectural Heritage Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Warren Counties
The mission of Adirondack Architectural Heritage is to further greater public understanding, appreciation and stewardship of the architecture, historic sites and communities of New York State's Adirondack Park through education, technical assistance, advocacy and partnerships.
Adirondack Center for Writing Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, St. Lawrence, Warren Counties
The Adirondack Center for Writing (ACW) is a resource and educational organization providing support to writers and enhancing literary activity and communication in the Adirondacks. ACW benefits both emerging and established writers as well as develops literary audiences by encouraging partnerships among exisiting regional organizations to promote diverse programs.
Alliance for the Arts All Counties
Founded in 1976, the Alliance has a broad mandate to promote New York’s cultural life through research and publications to increase the public's awareness of the arts. Our special role: advocating for a public/private partnership in support of the cultural community; publishing cultural guides; researching the economic impact of the arts; promoting arts education in the schools through guides and research; and serving individual artists.

The Alliance has five main constituencies:
- New York’s cultural community
- the general public in New York and tourists served by our cultural guides
- government and civic leaders who use and are influenced by our economic and other research
- children, parents and teachers using our arts education guides
- artists, curators and historians served by the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS
Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Queens, Richmond (Staten Island) Counties
A.R.T./New York is the service organization for the nation's largest, most culturally diverse and most artistically influential theatre community: Off Broadway. We were founded in 1972 by 49 Off Off Broadway companies to serve and promote this important new industry and we have upheld this mission by identifying and responding to the immediate and long-term issues affecting our membership. Services include cash grants, low-interest loans, low-cost office and rehearsal space, and technical assistance to theatres in all five boroughs. In recent years we have given particular emphasis to improving the cultural life and economic conditions of the City’s low-and moderate-income neighborhoods. A.R.T./New York’s membership is growing rapidly -- we now have a total membership of 425 not-for-profit theatres.
Allied Productions Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Queens, Richmond (Staten Island) Counties
Allied Productions was founded in 1981 as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit arts organization to support and foster individuals, groups and organizations active in all areas of the arts. It is a multipurpose entity run by artists for artists that presents, produces and sponsors. Since its incorporation it has provided services and support to individuals, groups and organizations actively involved in the production of visual, performing and media arts. Allied has a proven track record for effective management. Allied's contacts and resource lists are a vital reference for locating funding sources, materials and production space. In New York City, as a pivotal site, our projects intersect with three programs: Improvement of quality of life in disadvantaged neighborhoods, enhancing of public space and community life, and the fostering of an environment conducive to the artistic and creative process.
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 Music Center All Counties
The purpose of the American Music Center is to build a national community for new American music. The center accomplishes this by providing field-wide advocacy, promotion, and support for new music and the artists who create it. Among its many core programs and services, AMC offers an information service that responds to more than 35,000 inquiries annually, an online library and listening room for new music (www.newmusicjukebox.org), access to a 65,000-piece library of original scores and recordings, a Web magazine for new American music (www.newmusicbox.com), professional development workshops, a monthly listing of new music opportunities, networking groups for new music professionals, grants to artists and organizations, and other projects initiated in response to specific needs of the field. Currently, 34% of AMC's membership resides in New York State, while thousands of non-member New Yorkers benefit from the Center's services and attend performances facilitated by AMC programs.
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.
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