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March 2023
Apply: NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship
Fiscal Sponsorship is a fundraising and administrative tool that allows your project to use NYFA’s 501c3 nonprofit status to fundraise for your own project. With the support of NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship, you can: -Apply for funding from government, foundation, and corporate grants traditionally restricted to 501c3 organizations. -Offer the incentive of a tax-deduction to attract individual donors. -Receive consultation services with NYFA staff at no cost. -Receive fiduciary oversight and financial record-keeping. -Create a personalized fundraising page on nyfa.org. -Participate…
Find out more »April 2023
Making Your Dream Come True: Building and Improving Credit
Join us for this free, online workshop on how to build and improve your credit. Led by Tabby Iftikhar from Chase Bank, this workshop is open to artists and creatives of all disciplines and career stages, with content designed to serve immigrant artists who seek to learn skills for managing their money and build a financial future alongside their art career in the United States. Please click the below button to register. If you are looking for more finance literacy…
Find out more »2023 NYFA Hall of Fame Benefit Auction
NYFA's 2023 Hall of Fame Benefit Auction is now open (through April 20)! Bid on extraordinary original paintings, photographs, sculptures, and mixed media works by more than 70 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows and friends of NYFA. Proceeds from the auction will benefit participating artists as well as support NYFA's programs. Bid Now
Find out more »Apply: Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants
The Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants (AWAW EAG) will distribute a total of $300,000 in funding—up to $20,000 per project—to support environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists in the United States and U.S. Territories. The AWAW EAG will support environmental art projects that inspire thought, action, and ethical engagement. Projects should not only point at problems, but aim to engage an environmental issue at some scale. Proposals should illustrate thorough consideration of a project’s ecological and social…
Find out more »2023 NYFA Hall of Fame Benefit
NYFA’s 12th annual benefit will be held on Thursday, April 20, 2023 at Capitale in Manhattan. NYFA is thrilled to honor NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows Marylyn Dintenfass and Carmelita Tropicana, as well as Commissioner of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) Anne del Castillo, and patron of the arts Brookfield Properties. The ticketed event will feature cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, a silent auction, dinner and an awards presentation, and dessert. Each guest will receive a signed limited-edition Marylyn…
Find out more »Marketing Strategies for Artists, Performers, and Creatives
NYFA is pleased to present this free, pay-what-you-wish online workshop in partnership with the Office of the Arts, City of Alexandria. Whether you’re an artist, performer, musician, or creative, marketing is an essential part of your work. Yet the process is often difficult: what is the best use of your limited time and resources, and can you make sure that you’re using your channels effectively? To help you answer these questions, marketing expert Molaundo Jones, Senior Director of Communications and…
Find out more »The Ins & Outs of Running a Reading
Looking for ways to connect with more writers in real-time? Want to learn what it takes to host a successful reading series? Join the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) for “The Ins & Outs of Running a Reading,” an online panel discussion designed for literary artists. Writer Kyle Carrero Lopez will moderate a conversation with writers and reading coordinators Malvika Jolly, Rax King, and E.R. Pulgar, followed by a Q&A. By the end of this pay-what-you-wish session, you’ll…
Find out more »Apply: Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants
This program, funded by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 to professional dancers in need, who are in dire financial emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences. In Cycle 8, funds may be requested for emergency expenses for up to a three-month period between December 1, 2022 and September 30, 2023. You must demonstrate an urgent and critical need for emergency support in your application, and live in the United States, the District…
Find out more »May 2023
LLCs, S-Corps, Sole-Proprietor, and Other Business Entities for Artists – Explained!
A help or a headache? Worth it or not worth it? Artists often hear that they should form an LLC or other business entity, but they are rarely given a clear idea as to why or why not. Rus Garofalo from Brass Taxes is here to help! This pay-what-you-wish online workshop will review questions to consider when you earn income from your creative work and will explain the common types of business entities artists use. This workshop will address questions…
Find out more »Apply: Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants
The Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need who are creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography and live in the United States, the District of Columbia, a Tribal Nation, or a U.S. Territory. In Cycle 18, funds may be requested for emergencies occurring September 1, 2022 and later. Grants may be requested for expenses already paid, pending, or…
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