Tools and Resources

These tools and resources are designed to help you share and leverage your participation in building Our New York City Dance.


Issue Area Primers

These primers lay out each issue with supporting data, actions, and legislative bills you can support.

Advocacy

Streamline your advocacy efforts using these guidelines and testimony templates that provide a framework to help you effectively communicate your experiences and influence policy decisions.

Marketing & Communications

You’ll find customizable assets that can assist you with external messaging, community engagement, and driving awareness as well as resources to help you make the case to your local media.

Submit your content using this form and we can make one for you. Limit one design request per person/group.

Research

We know that you and our decision-makers need data to substantiate the needs and experiences in the industry. Strong data allows us to make solid arguments to support our industry.

The included 5-year trend analysis (pages 28-33) reports financial patterns of 708 nonprofit dance organizations across the country from 2018 to 2023.

Data on the economic impact, working conditions, and demographics across NYC’s creative industries.

Statewide data on economic impact of creative industries, as part of a nationwide comparison.

Annual economic and social impact study of the nation’s nonprofit arts and culture industry.

National survey on the economic conditions of community-based cultural organizations.

A review of quantitative and qualitative data measuring NYC neighborhoods’ cultural assets, social wellbeing, and the relationship between them. 

Documentation and narrative overview of pandemic artist relief funding.

Examines pandemic-era guaranteed income programs as models for advancing broader guaranteed income movement goals.

Examines pandemic-era funded artist employment programs as models for expanding artist employment long-term.