arts funding response and readiness kit

Links to Resources

Looking for other response or readiness ideas?

• Read the Arts & Economic Prosperity III Tool Kit (pdf, 1704KB). It’s packed with great tips and ideas for using research to make your case for arts funding and favorable arts policies.
  
• If you support individual artists, the Craft Emergency Relief Fund provides business and career-strengthening programs, emergency relief support, and advocacy and research services.
  
• Your state arts advocacy organization may have good tools. Several examples include Arts Wisconsin, South Carolina Arts Alliance (pdf, 2567KB), and Minnesota Citizens for the Arts.
  
• Contact your Americans for the Arts' State Arts Advocacy Captains.
  
• The Nonprofit Finance Fund offers Five Recommendations for Nonprofits in a Recession.
  
• Americans for the Arts Congressional Arts Handbook 2008.
  
  
• Read the Americans for the Arts Monograph: Making Advocacy a Habit. (pdf, 876KB)
  
• The Fieldstone Alliance just released 20 Emergency Funding Sources, an interesting list of revenue and cash management ideas for nonprofits.
  
• Grant Makers in the Arts launched Economic Turmoil and Change, a collection of ideas, action steps, and responses relating to the current economic downturn's effect on funders.
  
• Visit the Meyer Foundation's Economic Crisis Resource Center for sample communication strategies and fundraising ideas as well as links to other economic survival guides.
  
• The Kennedy Center is providing consulting services and providing planning assistance through its new program, Arts in Crisis, open to all nonprofit 501(c)(3) performing arts organizations.