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Fundraising made easier? Additional info sessions added!

Posted by Eugenie Cowan, on June 29, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: fundraising, cultural data project

Recently we wrote about the upcoming orientation sessions for the New York State Cultural Data Project, a powerful online management tool designed to strengthen arts and cultural organizations.

 

Understandably, demand for these demonstrations and discussions was heavy.  So overwhelmingly heavy that Speaker Christine Quinn, Council Member Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., and the New York City Council have generously agreed to host two additional information sessions in Council Chambers:

 

Where: City Hall

When: Monday, July 6 at 5:30 p.m., and Tuesday, July 7 at 8:30 a.m. 

 

To register for either of these sessions, please click here.

Fundraising made easier?

Posted by Eugenie Cowan, on June 18, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: fundraising, cultural data project

If you received invitations from NYSCA, DCA and NYS Arts to attend an orientation session for New York State Cultural Data Project and haven’t yet gone, maybe because you were skeptical, do so.  I went to one on Monday at Gracie Mansion.  Reassuringly, NYSCA and DCA staff were present.  It answered my basic questions:

Who created and runs it?  The Pew Charitable Trusts.  Their long-range goal is:  (1) to help those of us who struggle through periods of grantwriting hell by providing us with a well-designed standardized, yet customized, system for financial planning, recording our financial data, and retrieving reports, and (2) to advocate for the arts nationwide by building this resource, state by state, and then using (anonymous) cumulative data.

Who’s going to use it?  As many public and private sector funders as are willing, including NYSCA and DCA next year, and those of us who want to be relieved of March Madness so that we can focus on the work of our organizations.  If you use a fiscal sponsor, you are eligible too. 

So go to www.nysculturaldata.org and sign up for an orientation session.   And then sign up to make life easier.  We’re going to.