Arts Organizations

Alliance for the Arts
330 West 42nd Street, Suite 1701
New York, NY 10036
Phone: 212-947-6340
Fax: 212-947-6416
Email: info@allianceforarts.org
Web: www.allianceforarts.org

The Alliance for the Arts, founded in 1976, is a service organization concerned with the health of the arts in the New York City region. The Alliance serves the cultural community through research and advocacy and the public through cultural guides and calendars. Its publications include information on the arts, cultural events in New York City and studies focused on the importance of the arts to the economy and to education. The Alliance provides resources for children, parents, teachers, the general public, visitors to New York, New York's cultural community, government and civic leaders, artists, curators and historians served by the Estate Project for Artsts with AIDS.

League of American Orchestras
33 West 60th Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10023-7905
Phone: 212-262-5161
Fax: 212-262-5198
Email: league@symphony.org
Web: www.symphony.org
Contact: Ms. Joan Huang, Research and Development Associate

The League of American Orchestras provides leadership and service to American orchestras while communicating to the public the value and importance of orchestras and the music they perform. Founded in 1942 and chartered by Congress in 1962, the League serves nearly 1,000 member symphony, chamber, youth, and collegiate orchestras of all sizes. The League links a national network of thousands of musicians, conductors, managers, board members, volunteers, staff members, and business partners, providing a wealth of services, information, and educational opportunities to its members. Membership in the League is open to orchestras, individuals, students, other arts organizations and non-profits, businesses serving orchestras, volunteer associations, libraries, and career centers.

Chamber Music America
305 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10001-6008
Phone: 212-242-2022
Fax: 212-242-7955
Email: jdodgen@chamber-music.org
Web: www.chamber-music.org
Contact: Ms. Jane Dodgen, Membership Manager

Chamber Music America is a national membership organization created in 1977 to unify the chamber music community. Each year, conferences and workshops are held in New York and throughout the United States on such issues as fundraising, residencies, and career development. Staff members are also available to answer questions, and to arrange for individual consultation. Members receive a quarterly magazine, discounts on publications, and health and instrument insurance.

Chorus America
1156 Fifteenth St. NW, Suite 310
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202-331-7577
Email: service@chorusamerica.org
Web: www.chorusamerica.org
Contact: Ms. Catherine Davies, Director of Membership Services

Chorus America is a national, non-profit service organization created to promote the artistic quality, development, and growth of vocal ensembles, to advocate remuneration for singers, and to stimulate greater understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of choral music by all segments of society in the United States and Canada. Chorus America offers its services to all member organizations and focuses on serving the needs of both professional and volunteer choruses and the leadership of these organizations.

The Foundation Center
79 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10003-3076
Phone: 800-424-9836 or 212-620-4230
Email: library@fdncenter.org
Web: www.foundationcenter.org

The Foundation Center is an independent, non-profit organization established by foundations to provide information for grant seekers. By using its publications and national network of library reference collections, one can identify programs, which correspond to specific needs. In addition to libraries in New York and Washington, and field offices in San Francisco and Cleveland, there are cooperating collections in all 50 states. (Call to locate collections in your area.) For a free catalog of the Center’s publications, call toll-free: 1-800-424-9836.

Grantsmanship Center
P.O. Box 17220
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Phone: 213-482-9860
Fax: 213-482-9863
E-mail: info@tgci.com
Web: www.tgci.com

The Grantsmanship Centers was founded in 1972 by Norton J. Kiritz to offer grantsmanship training to nonprofit and government agencies. The Grantsmanship Centers conducts some 150 workshops annually in grantsmanship training, as well as earned income strategies for nonprofits. Graduates of The Grantsmanship Training Programs receive a membership package that includes discounts on future trainings for themselves and colleagues, discounts on Grantsmanship Centers publications, access to online databases of Government, Foundation and Corporate funding sources, and annual proposal reviews by workshop trainers. The Grantsmanhip Center also provides resources for grantseekers available on tgci.com. These include daily grant announcements from the Federal Register, archives of The Grantsmanship Center Magazine, indexes of funding sources at the local, federal and international levels, and more.

New York Foundation for the Arts
155 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10013-1507
Phone: 212-366-6900
Fax: 212-366-1778
Email: deleget@nyfa.org
Web: www.nyfa.org

The New York Foundation for the Arts is a non-profit arts service organization, and is one of the largest providers of grants and services to individual artists and their organizations in all artistic disciplines in the United States. NYFA serves artists, the arts community, donors, and the broader public by supporting programs in three major areas: Awards & Creative Development, Information & Research, and Donor Services. Through its fellowships, residencies, sponsored projects, management services, loans, information and advocacy services, the Foundation works with artists and arts organizations to bring the work of contemporary artists to the public.

Opera America
330 Seventh Avenue, 16th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212-796-8620
Fax: 212-796-8631
Email: frontdesk@operaamerica.org
Web: www.operaamerica.org

Opera America is a non-profit service organization for the field of opera. Founded in 1970, its aim is to support the professional opera companies of North America. Opera America provides a variety of informational, technical, and financial services to its members and serves as a resource to the media, funders, government agencies, and the general public. Opera America’s Information Service contains information on various aspects of opera including performances and productions of opera around the works, sets and costumes, translations, performance editions, projected titles, and more.