Supports musicians with legal issues, health and pension benefits and provides resources and networking opportunities.

ASCAP is a membership organization providing licensing and distribution representation and distributes royalties for copyrighted works specifically for composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music publishers.

Phone: (800) 95-ASCAP

Helping musicians and music entrepreneurs create sustainable careers. It offers research and articles on a variety music and business careers including an online help center, forums and videos pertaining to all aspects of the music business.

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

Explore programs for toddlers through seniors. Classes, workshops, music lessons, lectures, camps, speakers series, special events and performances are all offered in a welcoming, friendly environment.
It’s a fun place to learn and to feel inspired. It’s a place to create friendships – for kids and adults. It’s value for time and money. It’s a real community asset that brings people together.
Learn more at this link: https://www.fairmountcenter.org/about-mission/

The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is a nonprofit museum in Wisconsin that offers a number of residency programs, including a unique collaboration between artists and industry.

The Millay Colony for the Arts offers residencies and workshops in a number of disciplines. The colony is located in New York about 2.5 hours away from NY city.

Refresh Collective specializes in hip-hop style digital music production, lyric and vocal coaching, recording, mixing and mastering. We can help produce your songs and/or podcasts. Our work supports artists who provide meaningful and conscious messages to benefit our community. We do not support artists or messages that are destructive to our community. Call us for a free consultation!

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild hosts the Byrdcliffe Art Colony. The colony was placed on the National Register of Historic Sites in 1979 for its architectural and historical significance. It is located in the Catskill Mountains, 1.5 miles from the center of Woodstock, New York. The residency is for artistic excellence of composers, playwrights, poets, screenwriters, visual artists and writers.

Founded in 1900 by the financier Spencer Trask and his wife Katrina, herself a poet, Yaddo is an artists' community located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its mission is to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment.