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KickStarter is a crowdfunding service focused on creative ideas and ambitious endeavors. Artists, filmmakers, musicians, designers, writers, illustrators, explorers, curators, performers, and others bring their projects, events, and dreams to life. Kickstarter is powered by a unique all-or-nothing funding method where projects must be fully-funded or no money changes hands.

The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent federal agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative capacity of our communities by providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

Address: 400 7th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20506
Phone: (202) 682-5400
E-mail: webmgr@arts.gov

This is an extensive resource of funding and professional development information for individual artists and arts organizations.

Address: 155 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor New York, NY 10013

NoteWorthy Credit Union's mission is to serve the arts and entertainment community. Noteworthy provides many types of loans but specializes in providing loans for musical instruments. ATMs are located in Cleveland: in the Tower Press Building on 1900 Superior Avenue, Severance Hall and the Beachland Ballroom on Waterloo Road.

Address: 1900 Superior Ave, Suite 126 Cleveland, OH 44114
Phone: (216) 263-7034

The Ohio Arts Council is a state agency that funds quality arts experiences to strengthen Ohio communities culturally, educationally and economically.

Address: Rhodes Tower 30 E. Broad Street 33rd Floor, Columbus, OH 43215-3414
Phone: (614) 466-2613

The primary function of the Ohio Department of Taxation is the collection and administration of most state taxes, several local taxes and the oversight of real property taxation in Ohio. Their site also provides a number of resources for individual taxpayers and businesses. Their business section provides a listing of all tax forms with links to a PDF, which you can often fill in, services for businesses, interest rates and other resources. The department's mission is to provide quality service to Ohio taxpayers by helping them comply with their tax responsibilities and by fairly applying the tax law.

The Ohio Society of CPAs (OSCPA), is the only organization exclusively working to protect and promote the CPA profession in Ohio. OSCPA is a resource for news and events impacting Ohio CPAs and the business community. They also offer a directory to help you search for a CPA based on location and expertise.

Openfilm.com is an online video platform for discovering, distributing and financing independent films online. Through its various third-party distribution platforms, Openfilm offers independent filmmakers the opportunity to gain exposure and earn revenue for their work. Openfilm brings the best elements of the film industry together. With an innovative platform designed to change the process of discovering great independent film, Openfilm is dedicated to developing, marketing and distributing great works.

Patronage is not a new concept, Patreon is a new way to access and cultivate it. The platform is an online crowdfunding software that allows individuals to support you as a creator. No prizes, projects or gimmicks needed. Crowdfunding does work best, however when you have an existing network of friends and fans who are willing to invest in you.

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. was established in 1985 for the sole purpose of providing financial assistance to individual visual artists of established ability through the generosity of the late Lee Krasner, one of the leading abstract expressionist painters and the widow of Jackson Pollock.

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The Puffin Foundation Ltd. has sought to open the doors of artistic expression by providing grants to artists and art organizations who are often excluded from mainstream opportunities due to their race, gender, or social philosophy.

Address: 20 Puffin Way, Teaneck, NJ, 07666-4111

This page includes calculators for determining how expensive of a home users can afford, predicting mortgage payments, refinancing, and amortization.

Retirement Living is a resource for those seeking to invest for retirement or grow their wealth, by utilizing a financial advisor.

SellaBand is a crowdfunding service, a music website set up to allow music ensemble bands to raise the money to record a professional album. SellaBand is based in Munich and Berlin, the creative capital of Europe. Since its launch in August 2006, SellaBand has coordinated recording sessions for more than 80 artists or acts who had their albums funded by their fans. With SellaBand, artists retain complete ownership of the works created and have the flexibility to determine which incentives they will offer their fans who fund them. SellaBand’s fan funding engine also allows artists the freedom to enter into deals with any label, management company, or publisher and there are no advances to pay back.

SESAC is a performing rights organization that logs and collects royalties for its writer and publisher members.

This article will discuss the importance of ‘credit scores’, explain how these figures are calculated, explore methods of improving one’s credit history, and share some strategies for avoiding the most common financial mistakes that students make.

A national organization, focusing on strengthening the performing arts by offering information on grants, workshops and research and information on legislative issues for both nonprofits and individual performers.

Address: 520 8th Avenue, 24th floor New York, NY 10018
Phone: (212) 609-5900

www.annuity.org offers information on the different types of annuities, the tax implications involved in owning one, and how to handle a structured settlement. Annuities and structured settlements are insurance products that provide long-term income through a stream of future payments. While investment annuities can be used to save money for retirement and beneficiaries, structured settlements are used for personal-injury cases, wrongful death claims or lottery payouts. Also visit www.annuity.org/cash-value/future-value/ for information on calculating the future value of an annuity.