The Artists Foundation’s Business Resources for Artists  
The Artists Foundation offers free information and resources on its website, including tips on grantwriting, resume writing, developing press kits and more.

The Kaufman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CELCEE) CELCEE enables users to conduct all their research on entrepreneurship education online. The CELCEE staff takes resources and writes brief abstracts. These abstracts are indexed and organized within an online database.

CRAFTS RESOURCES

"Crafting as a Business" by Wendy Rosen 

The Crafts Report Business Books for Craft Artists

The Crafts Report Magazine 

National Craft Association Small Business Center

Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG)
Professional Guidelines 

Adolph & Ester Gottlieb Foundation 

Aid to Artisans 

Artists' Fellowship 

Artists Now Exhibiting Work (ANEW)
ANEW is a membership organization that was primarily chartered to make it possible for artists to work freely without being restricted by the lack of funds or supplies.

Change, Inc. Box 54, Tapiva, FL 33924 Phone: 212-473-3742 Fax: 212-995-8022. Change, Inc. provides emergency grants up to $1,000 for artists in all disciplines needing help with rent, medical expenses, utility bills, fire damage, etc.

FINANCIAL RESOURCES

Consumer Counseling Centers of America (CCCA)

The Entrepreneur’s Help Page 
This site is designed to help young or inexperienced business people with good ideas and the desire to start their own business. This web site distributes basic information on legal, financial, and management issues that commonly affect people who are just starting up their businesses.

The Motley Fool   Motley Fool online forum is designed to help participants obtain financial information and discuss ways to make investment and personal financial decisions.

National Financial Planning Support Center; Financial Planning Association (FPA)
Created in the wake of the 9/11 tragedies, The Support Center programs exist for businesses and non-profits. You can find financial planning literature, ask a certified financial planner (CFP) questions, or find a certified financial planner. Through qualified partnerships with other organizations, the Support Center can provide individuals with pro bono financial planning assistance.

National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC)
 

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FUNDRAISING/GRANTS/DEVELOPMENT

National Community Capital Association 
The National Community Capital Association is a national membership organization of community development financial institutions (CDFIs). This site includes a listing of member CDFI’s and their contact information.

Washington Forrest Foundation
(A member of The Washington AIDS Partnership;
2300 Ninth St S, Arlington, VA 22204
 

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INSURANCE / RETIREMENT RESOURCES

JOBS

Southeastern Theatre Conference
336-272-3645  

Southern Arts Federation

ArtSearch: National Employment Bulletin for the Arts
 212-697-5230   

New York Foundation for the Arts
NYFA Current, a weekly online arts publication providing job information and opportunities for artists.

Global Art Information
Visual art jobs, both national and international, as well as other visual arts services. By subscription.
 
Art Job Online
A service of WESTAF, this is a regularly updated database of national job listings in all disciplines in the nonprofit sector. It is available by paid subscription.

Technical Jobs in the Washington, DC Area

http://dc-theatertech.markandruss.com

http://www.udel.edu/usittchesapeake/jobs.html
 

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LEGAL RESOURCES

Nolo Self-Help Law Center – Small Businesses
 Nolo publishes books, software and forms, and offers a website to help people handle their own everyday legal matters.?

Pro Bono Legal Services; American Bar Association
The Center for Pro Bono is part of the American Bar Association. This site helps you find pro bono legal services in your area.

The Artist’s Rights Society    The Artists Rights Society is a copyright, licensing, and monitoring organization for visual artists in the United States. Included at their web site is information on copyright basics for artists.

The Copyright Society of the United States of America.
 This site includes copyright basics for artists from Friends of Active Copyright Education, an educational initiative of the Copyright Society of the USA.

The Copyright Website  

U.S. Copyright Office

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 

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NETWORKING

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Allsworth Press Business Books for Artists
Allworth Press provides practical information books for the creative community.

Artists’ Assets; Artist Trust
The annually updated "Artists’ Assets" is a collection of information about hundreds of organizations, agencies, groups and guilds that provide vital resources for artists.

The Artist Help Network 
 The network assists artists seeking information, resources, guidance, and advice on a range of career-related topics.

Arts Resource Network’s Professional Growth Resources
  The Arts Resource Network provides links to a range of information about the arts and arts opportunities. Find information and resources to help you increase your skills in creating, facilitating and promoting your work.

Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO)
AEO is a national network of organizations that support the development of strong and effective U.S. microenterprise programs to assist underserved entrepreneurs in starting, stabilizing, and expanding businesses. Search their directory for the microenterprise program nearest you.

Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI)
 CCI helps self-employed artists, small arts businesses and the nonprofit arts sector start, manage and grow their own businesses.

Creative Capital's Artist Toolbox
Creative Capital's Artist Toolbox is an annotated collection of career-resource sites.

Directory of U.S. Microenterprise Programs; The Aspen Institute
 The Microenterprise Fund for Innovation, Effectiveness, Learning and Dissemination’s (FIELD) mission is to identify, develop and disseminate best practices, and to broadly educate policymakers, funders and others about microenterprises as an anti-poverty intervention. Use FIELD’s directory of microenterprise programs to find local assistance for small business development.

Federal Citizen Information Center (FCIC)
FCIC provides the answers to questions about the federal government and everyday consumer issues.

NYFA Business Resources; New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)   
On their website NYFA includes a variety of articles and interviews pertaining to the business of art. Also at NYFA’s site is NYFA Source, a comprehensive online database of resources for artists to facilitate their work.

Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE)
SCORE "Counselors to America's Small Business" is a nonprofit association dedicated to providing entrepreneurs with free, confidential face-to-face and email business counseling. Retired executives usually provide business counseling. The relevance of the counseling varies with the experience of the counselor.

Working Today 
Working Today is a nonprofit organization that represents the needs and concerns of America's independent workforce through advocacy, information and service.

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