The teams from Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY) and Artists At Work (AAW) collaborated to explore for portable benefits and other worker protection solutions tailored to the unique needs of artists and creative workers. This Snapshot is meant to inspire state and local government, philanthropy, researchers, and policymakers to further investigate the possibility of portable benefits for artists.

A one-pager with tips and guidance to protect your art practice and property in an emergency.

“Paying for Professionalism 2025: A Report on New York City Teaching Artist Compensation & Employment” provides a comprehensive overview of the financial and employment landscape for Teaching Artists in New York City. The report explores various aspects of Teaching Artist work, including compensation models, benefits, career sustainability, and challenges faced by these professionals.

IllumiNative was a Native woman-led racial and social justice organization dedicated to increasing the visibility of—and challenging the narrative about—Native peoples. NOTE: The organization sunset at the end of 2024, but the website remains with research, guides, podcasts, and other resources.

Master advanced advocacy skills for dance professionals in this comprehensive workshop from Dance/USA. Learn power mapping techniques, coalition building strategies, and how to navigate workplace dynamics while advocating for fair pay, safe rehearsal conditions, and anti-discrimination policies in dance spaces.

Learn essential government advocacy skills for dance professionals in this comprehensive webinar from Dance/USA. Discover how to effectively contact your government representatives, navigate the arts advocacy ecosystem, and make your voice heard on critical dance and arts policy issues.

Beyond Barriers to Progression & Employment in Dance for Disabled People is a research study evidencing the barriers that disabled people experience when working in dance and one that aims to initiate wider discussions and actions across the dance sector to better support the progression and employment of disabled people. Findings are offered in a wide range of formats including long text, short text, audio, animated film, and BSL.

A worksheet for valuing your time. Know how much your life costs so you can negotiate for fair compensation.

From our vantage point within Sins Invalid, where we incubate the framework and practice of disability justice, this emerging framework has ten principles, each offering opportunities for
movement building.

This workbook will not only guide you through a simple budgeting process, but also, hopefully, demystify it for you.

In this short, 10 page grant writing guide, you’ll find the true basics of institutional fundraising from how to choose which grants to apply for, to how to cultivate relationships with funders, to how to write in a language that actually gets you grants.

An accessibility guide geared toward small-scale arts nonprofits and the potentially expansive publics these organizations serve. It details specific ways in which disabled people are excluded from cultural spaces and offers possible solutions to those barriers.