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.
Issue Primer
Dance Workers’ Lack of Value & Protections in Society
Issue PRIMER
Financial Unsustainability for our Workers and Organizations
Issue PRIMER
Justice, Equity & Inclusion are Still Lagging
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.
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.
Report
Dance/USA’s 2023 Impact Report
Dance/USA
The included 5-year trend analysis (pages 28-33) reports financial patterns of 708 nonprofit dance organizations across the country from 2018 to 2023.
Report
The Creative Economy Art, Culture and Creativity in New York City
NYC Comptroller
Data on the economic impact, working conditions, and demographics across NYC’s creative industries.
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Creative Economy State Profiles
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA)
Statewide data on economic impact of creative industries, as part of a nationwide comparison.
Report
Arts & Economic Prosperity 6
Americans for the Arts
Annual economic and social impact study of the nation’s nonprofit arts and culture industry.
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Creative Equity National Survey Culture: Race, Myth Art = Justice
Creative Justice Initiative
National survey on the economic conditions of community-based cultural organizations.
Report
The Social Wellbeing of New York City’s Neighborhoods: The Contribution of Culture and the Arts
Mark J. Stern and Susan C. Seifert,
University of Pennsylvania
A review of quantitative and qualitative data measuring NYC neighborhoods’ cultural assets, social wellbeing, and the relationship between them.
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We Are Bound: Excavating the Story of Artist Relief 2020
Yancey Consulting, LLC
Documentation and narrative overview of pandemic artist relief funding.
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Advance Guaranteed Income Now
Creatives Rebuild New York’s (CRNY) Guaranteed Income for Artists Working Group
Examines pandemic-era guaranteed income programs as models for advancing broader guaranteed income movement goals.
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Advance Sustainable Livelihoods for Arts and Cultural Workers
Creatives Rebuild New York’s (CRNY) Artist Employment Working Group
Examines pandemic-era funded artist employment programs as models for expanding artist employment long-term.