“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.

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

This guide is a practical tool to help you rethink how the performing arts are positioned—not as charity, enrichment, or entertainment, but as civic infrastructure, economic engines, and strategic partners in public problem-solving. Whether you’re writing a grant, meeting with a policymaker, pitching a sponsor, or mobilizing your board, this matrix ensures your messages are current, catalytic, and compelling.

CRNY launched the Portrait of New York State Artists survey between February and May 2022 to build a comprehensive picture of the needs, circumstances, and experiences of artists across New York State. Explore the data through an interactive tool.

NYC Housing Connect is New Yorkers’ portal to find and apply for affordable rental and homeownership opportunities across the five boroughs of New York City.

This project came out of a series of conversations among disabled access workers whose advocacy, counsel, expertise, and labor specifically focused on transforming cultural spaces in the US to be disability-centered. We aimed to collect, document, and share current pay rates to build collective power and create clearer industry standards.

The first model of its kind — and the first in the U.S. — to establish a sector-wide minimum standard for compensation, as well as a clear set of guidelines for the conditions under which artistic labor is contracted.

A worksheet to track unreimbursed business expenses for self-employed/1099 workers, to be used as a reference when inputting deductions on their tax forms.

The Good Foot Podcast is an educational platform for individuals motivated by the artists who pave their path through the street dance community. It serves as a hub for honest conversation about the diverse perspectives on the origins, dissemination, current state, and future of the culture.

NFF’s business and finance related glossary of terms and concepts for nonprofit individuals and organizations.

Recommended standard rates for dancers for commercial/film projects.

A guide to building a balanced, sustainable artistic life.