BMI offers services and programs to help members develop their skills and gain industry exposure. Also available are musical instrument, health and life insurance programs, and various industry discounts.

Braid Creative and Consulting offers online courses and one-on-one coaching for creative entrepreneurs to help them organize, brand, and build their business.

Contact at: http://www.braidcreative.com/contact

Buckeye Shaker Square Development Corporation (BSSDC) is one of the most productive development corporations in The City of Cleveland. BSSDC is positioned to turn neighborhood progress into an opportunity to create a great place to a live, work and play.

Address: 7201 Kinsman Road Cleveland, OH 44104
Phone: (216) 341-1455
Fax: (216) 341-2683
E-mail: info@bbcdevelopment.com

BVU links businesses and nonprofits to foster excellence in the nonprofit sector. BVU engages businesses, employers and members of the community-at-large in productive and rewarding leadership and volunteer activities. By leveraging their involvement, BVU strengthens the leadership and expands the capacity of hundreds of nonprofits, while enabling businesses and employers to build strategic, powerful and enduring relationships with the community. Additionally, BVU provides leading-edge board and management consulting services to strengthen nonprofit organizations.

Address: 1300 East 9th St., Ste. 1805, Cleveland, OH 44114
Phone: (216) 736-7711
Email: bvu@bvuvolunteers.org

Campus District Inc. (CDI) connects Cleveland’s downtown campuses by leading, providing, and promoting community development services. By connecting people and ideas, CDI promotes and strengthens the business, education, healthcare, religious, research, and service activities of its member institutions.

Connects nonprofits with volunteer professionals. Requires a one-year membership fee.

Cedar Lee is known for it’s local movie theater, which screens an array of independent, foreign and documentary films, in addition to old-school movies, midnight series and a selection of blockbusters. Cedar Lee is also home to Cain Park, a summer performing arts park, and Dobama Theatre, a theatre focused on premiering the best contemporary plays. And just down the street, Cedar Fairmount is home to Nighttown, a restaurant know as Cleveland’s premier Jazz club.

Based on the 2011 “Putting Artists on the Map”, over 40% of the artists in this area are visual. Following visual artists, the music (13.3%) and literary (11.9%) categories make up 26% of the artists who reside in Cedar-Lee. Following closely behind are interdisciplinary and design artists, each making up 8.10% of artists in Cedar-Lee. Then there are craft artists who make up 6.7%, education artists who make up 3%, media artists who make up 1.5% and theater artists who make up .7% of the artists living in Cedar-Lee.

http://www.cedarlee.org/

http://www.cedarfairmount.org/

The Center for Artistic Activism works nationally and internationally as a place to explore, analyze, and strengthen connections between social activism and artistic practice. Creative activism is more than just an innovative tactic, it is an entire approach: a perspective, a practice, a philosophy. Our goal is to make more creative activists and more effective artists. We aim to win.

A multi-arts resource for Northeast Ohio schools committed to making learning through the arts a fundamental component of young people's development.

Address: 10917 Magnolia Drive, Cleveland OH 44106-1809
Phone: (216) 561-5005
E-mail: info@arts-inspiredlearning.org

Along with the numerous art galleries in Chagrin Falls, the town is also home to the Chagrin Valley Little Theater, a popular community theater; the Valley Art Center, a community non-profit facility that provides exhibit space and classes in a variety of art media; and the Chagrin Falls Historical Society. - http://cleveland.about.com/od/neighborhoods/p/chagrinfalls.htm

Based on the 2011 “Putting Artists on the Map”, nearly 50% of Chagrin Valley’s artists are visual artists. Visual artists are followed by craft and design artists who each make up 14.30% of the artists in Chagrin Valley. Literary artists and musicians each make up 5.5%, followed by education artists at 2.2% and interdisciplinary, media, and theater artists each making up 1.1% of the artists in Chagrin Valley.

Chicago Artists Resource (CAR) is an excellent source of information for artists' professional development. It includes legal, financial and education information as well as artist opportunities.

The Cleveland Arts Prize identifies, selects and publicly honors accomplished Northeast Ohio artists and organizations and individuals who have contributed to the community’s participation in the arts.

Phone: (216) 321.0012
E-mail: info@clevelandartsprize.org

A self-help organization for composers living in Northeast Ohio sponsoring local artists.

E-mail: ccg@clevelandcomposers.com

The Cleveland Digital Publishing Users Group (CDPUG) helps the area's top graphics and publishing professionals with education, news, technical support, networking and professional development. Monthly meetings, special interest groups, electronic and print publications, seminars, design competitions and much more contribute to the mission.

Address: P.O. Box 22076 | Cleveland, OH 44122
Email: membership@cdpug.org

The Cleveland Housing Network (CHN) is Northeast Ohio’s largest community development organization and energy conservation provider. Our mission is to develop affordable housing for low- and moderate-income Clevelanders with a special emphasis on generating pathways out of poverty and providing homeownership opportunities.

Address: 2999 Payne Avenue Cleveland, OH 44114
Phone: (216) 574-7100
Fax: (216) 574-7130

The Cleveland International Film Festival promotes the newest and best films from around the world, and does everything in its power to make sure that the audience learns something along the way- about other cultures, the topic at hand and/or about the experience from the filmakers themselves.

Address: 2510 Market Avenue Cleveland, OH 44113
Phone: (216) 623-3456

Cleveland Neighborhood Progress works in partnership with community development corporations, local foundations, the business community, and government, to create a strong and productive system that has visibly improved many neighborhoods and enabled thousands of Cleveland’s residents to enjoy a better quality of life. It is a local community development funding intermediary with over twenty years of experience investing in community revitalization work in greater Cleveland. Their website offers information about the broader infrastructure of neighborhood support with links to specific programs relating to lending for businesses, reimagining cleveland and urban greening, leadership building and links to specific neighborhoods throughout Cleveland.

Phone: (216) 830-2770
11327 Shaker Blvd, Suite 500W
Cleveland, Ohio 44104

Cleveland Opera Theater's mission is to produce vibrant, accessible, innovative, and engaging opera in Greater Cleveland.
Cleveland Opera Theater fulfills its mission through performances that reach out to diverse audiences providing accessible gateways to discover opera, to experience opera, and to learn about opera:
-FEATURE artists of international renown, professional artists with roots in the community, and those who make Northeast Ohio their home
-EMBRACE collaboration and foster interdisciplinary projects with other arts and community organizations, and educational and service institutions
-ADVANCE opera in the present with contemporary approaches to opera, re-imagined productions and performances in non-traditional venues
-ADVOCATE for the future of opera by promoting the creation and performance of new works, and by educating and developing audiences and artists of tomorrow

Maintains a calendar of literary events in the Ohio area, along with links to literary blogs (written by local and national writers), literary organizations, and a wealth of other resources for writers, with a local flavor.