NonProfits Technology Resources
Arts
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Knowledge in Technology (KIT) program of the New York
Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). KIT was a technology planning
training program for arts organizations. The program no longer
exists, but the curriculum and training tools is archived and
remains a very useful tool for developing a planning process.
Includes useful assessment and inventory tools.
- Carnegie Mellon Center
for Arts Mgmt and Technology (CAMT) Technology training,
web development and hosting and database systems design for
nonprofit arts organizations.
- Open Studio: The
Arts Online A former program of the Benton Foundation
that provided internet access and web development training to
artists and nonprofit arts organizations through mentor sites
across the country. The resources are archived on the site and are
still useful.
Other
- Top 10
Free Software Applications for Charities: 2002 - From a British
portal for nonprofit technologies.
- CompuMentor Their
mission is to provide technology resources to nonprofits and
schools serving low-income communities. While generally catering to
California nonprofits, they also provide extreme discounts on
popular Microsoft and Lotus software packages to nonprofits across
the country through its
Techsoup.org program..
- Idealist Home Database
of nonprofit organizations and resources worldwide.
- National Center for
Charitable Statistics (NCCS) The national repository of data on
the nonprofit sector in the United States.
- Nonprofit GENIE
Homepage Managed by the California Management Assistance
Partnership, but with many technology and management resources for
any nonprofit.
- Nonprofit Technology Enterprise
Network The Non-Profit Technology Enterprise Network (N-TEN) is
an organization dedicated to connecting and supporting individuals
and organizations who empower non-profits to use technology to
achieve their missions.
- NPower National Outreach
Through a National Partnership with Microsoft, NPower is now
working to bring its model of non-profit technology services to
communities around the country.
- A New
Framework for Building Participation in the Arts. A report from
RAND. Available for personal download (Acrobat PDF) Arts
organizations across the country are actively expanding their
efforts to increase public participation in their programs. This
report presents the findings of a RAND study sponsored by the
Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds that looks at the process by which
individuals become involved in the arts and attempts to identify
ways in which arts institutions can most effectively influence this
process. TechRocks! Activities include the free eBase nonprofit
relationship management system. A supporting organization to the
Rockefeller Family Fund.
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Strategic Communications: A best practices toolkit for
achieving your organization's mission in the digital age. This was
a project of the Benton Foundation's Communications Capacity
Building Program and includes resources for tech planning, audience
development, etc.
- Techsoup.org Powered by
CompuMentor (see above), one of the nation's oldest and largest
nonprofit technology assistance agencies, TechSoup.org offers
nonprofits one-stop shopping for their technology needs.
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- Americans for the Arts (AFTA)
National arts advocacy.
- Alliance
of Artists Communities Artists' communities are professionally
run organizations that provide time, space, and support for
artists' creative research and risk-taking in environments rich in
stimulation and fellowship.
- Art Museum Network The
world’s largest and most prestigious art museums have joined forces
to provide free access to information about their collections,
exhibitions, and services.
- Arts
International AI supports and promotes global connections and
interchange in the visual and performing arts and develops programs
and projects intended to educate and inform audiences about
cultural production worldwide. Conferences, publications and
several granting programs.
- Association of American Cultures
(TAAC) The mission of TAAC is to represent the distinctive and
collective concerns of people of diverse populations in the United
States and its Trust Territories, in regard to the preservation and
creative vitality of their respective cultural identity through the
arts. TAAC is committed to the concept of Cultural Diversity as a
distinct element in American public arts policy.
- Association of
Performing Arts Presenters Continuing education, funding,
government affairs and other resources for presenters.
- Cultural Funding:
Federal Opportunities A National Endowment for the Arts online
resource of Federal funding available for arts initiatives through
national, state and local funding programs.
- Creative Capital,
a New York City-based nonprofit organization, acts as a catalyst
for the development of adventurous and imaginative ideas by
supporting artists who pursue innovation in form and/or content in
the performing and visual arts, film and video, and in emerging
fields. We are committed to working in partnership with the artists
whom we fund, providing advisory services and professional
development assistance along with multi-faceted financial aid and
promotional support throughout the life of each Creative Capital
project.
- The Foundation Center The
mission of the Foundation Center is to foster public understanding
of the foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and
disseminating information on foundations, corporate giving, and
related subjects. Our audiences include grantseekers, grantmakers,
researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public.
- Funding
and Managing Arts Organizations: A Resource List from the
Foundation Center
- Institute of
Outdoor Drama - Located at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, the Institute provides resources and national
leadership for this popular theatre genre.
- ISPA - International
Society for the Performing Arts A not-for-profit
international organization of over 600 executives and directors of
concert and performance halls, festivals, performing companies, and
artist competitions; government cultural officials; artists'
managers; and other interested parties with a professional
involvement in the performing arts from more than 50 countries in
every region of the world, and in every arts discipline.
- National Alliance for Media
Arts and Culture (NAMAC) National association of nonprofit
organizations and individuals committed to furthering the media
arts: film, video, audi and digital.
- National Arts
Strategies (formerly National Arts Stabilization). NAS helps
arts organizations build a strong foundation upon which creativity
and innovation can flourish. Believing that organizational health
supports artistic excellence, we work with communities to
strengthen arts organizations by developing the managerial and
financial skills required to adapt and thrive In today's changing
environment.
- National Association of Artists'
Organizations NAAO's membership programs and services are
designed to address common concerns such as cultural pluralism,
community-based work, organizational stability, working conditions,
isolation, and lack of visibility, among others.
- National Endowment for the
Arts (NEA) The main federal agency supporting the arts, they
also have many research resources of value to arts organizations.
- National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH) Similar to NEA, but with emphasis on academic,
historical, heritage, and social issues.
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NYFA
Source is the most extensive national database of awards,
services, and publications for artists of all disciplines. Artists,
arts organizations, and the general public can access information
on over 3,400 arts organizations, 2,800 award programs, 3,100
service programs, and 900 publications for individual artists
nationwide, with more programs added every day. From the New York
Foundation for the Arts.
- Planning Toolsite:
Lessons Learned From the NEA. There are two components of the
toolsite: a series of essays about the process of planning; and
actual illustrations of organizational change within arts
organizations.
- Southern Arts Federation
- Regional service organization for state arts agencies. Provides a
regional booking conference for performing artists, research, and
limited grant opportunities for arts organizations.
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