Individual Artists and Small Arts Organizations
A unique coaching community for people doing creative work. The Network is comprised of small groups throughout the U.S. Members are trained to coach and be coached.
A national service, advocacy and membership organization for presenters of the performing arts.
Contains a source of information linking artists and arts organizations to a variety of arts funding sources from governments, foundations and private sources.
Chicago Artist Resource features hundreds of articles shared by leading organizations in arts and service -- notably the New York Foundation for the Arts, UIC Center for Health in the Arts and LA-based Side Street Projects. CAR also features links to grants, funding, awards and other services for artists. These links are presented by Local and National, and also from NYFA.
Provides support to artists who pursue innovation in form and/or content in the performing and visual arts, film and video and in emerging fields.
Contains a comprehensive list of funding available to individual artists and artists' organizations.
The Illinois Arts Council awards grants to individuals artists.
Online crowdfunding tool for funding creative projects.
One of the largest grant makers to individual artists.
Provides a comprehensive database of awards, services, and publications for artists in all disciplines.
Provides financial grants for recognizable artistic merit and demonstrable financial need, whether professional, personal or both.
Provides grants to emerging artists in the fields of art, photography, music, theater, dance and literature whose works due to their genre and/or social philosophy might have difficulty being aired.
Small Business and Entrepreneur
Connects small business owners with the financing and advice it takes to create or grow healthy enterprises.
A cooperatively run, not-for-profit financial organization chartered in 1962 for the benefit of members of Actors' Equity Association. Today, any paid-up member of Equity, SAG-AFTRA, or member in good standing of any of 151 member organizations is eligible to apply.
Network of dedicated procurement professionals working to help local businesses compete successfully in the government marketplace.