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General Community Art$Grants instructions for completing application

Grantwriting Basics

Grantwriting 101

Evaluation of Your Project

What Collaboration Can Do for your Organization

Grant Writing Basics, a publication of Queens Council on the Arts

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The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) is a state funding agency that provides support for activities of nonprofit arts and cultural organizations in New York State.
 
The New York State Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) provides funding opportunities, extensive fiscal sponsorship services, information resources and educational initiatives for individual artists of all disciplines. Grants offered by NYFA include: $7,000 Artist Fellowships for NY state professional artists in all disciplines; S.O.S. (Special Opportunity Stipend) grants for artists to take advantage of unique opportunities that will further their artistic careers. Application forms may be downloaded from their website or from our site under Grants for Artists.
 
The New York Council for the Humanities offers several grant programs to support humanities programming in New York, and sponsors State Humanities Month in October each year.
 
The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation provides funding opportunities and services to artists and arts organizations in the Mid-Atlantic States to encourage the growth and development of arts and cultural activities throughout the region.

The Association of Performing Arts Presenters brings performing artists and audiences together through professional development, networking, funding, advocacy and resource sharing.
 
The National Endowment for the Arts offers funding opportunities for artists and arts organizations in all disciplines, and provides an extensive list of other federal grant opportunities as well as links and referrals to general arts information for artists and arts organizations.
 
The National Endowment for the Humanities offers funding opportunities to support research, education, preservation and public programs in the humanities.
 
The Foundation Center publishes guidebooks to grants in a wide range of categories - you can find many of them at libraries (the New York State Library has an extensive collection - call them at 518-474-5355), or purchase them for your own collection. Their website also has a searchable grants database and online librarian. In addition they publish several newsletters with information on philanthropy and available grants. Their website is worth a visit!
 
www.artdeadline.com allows artists who have subscribed to search a database of artist exhibition opportunities, grants, job opportunities, etc.
Research Grant Guides, Inc. publishes grant guide books on a variety of subjects. Contact them for more information at (516) 795-6129 or by mail at: 12798 W. Forest Hill Blvd., Suite 304, West Palm Beach, FL 33515-4704.
 
Art Opportunities Monthly offers free and paid monthly subscriptions to listsings of grants and other opportunities for artists and arts organizations.
 
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts- www.vlany.org offers a wide range of services for artists and arts organizations. Also at VLA is the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation Nonprofit Assistance Program for assistance to nonprofit arts and cultural organizations of all sizes and stages of operations.
 
www.askthemusiclawyer.org ASK THE MUSIC LAWYER is a new webiste and a series of FREE workshops and other services designed to help you.
 
www.meetthecomposer.org MEET THE COMPOSER, INC. is dedicated to fostering the creation, performance, dissemination and apprecation of music and has several programs to support this. 
 
www.ccsnys.org Council of Community Services of New York State serves nonprofit members with training, technical assistance and group purchasing programs as well as advocate for the nonprofits in the state.
 
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www.nonprofits.org The Grantsmanship Center
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