Free website to provide info and money management skills.

Bankrate, Inc. is an aggregator of financial rate information, offering a depth and breadth of rate data and financial content. Bankrate continually surveys approximately 4,800 financial institutions in all 50 states in order to provide clear, objective, and unbiased rates to consumers. Bankrate.com provides free rate information to consumers on more than 300 financial products, including mortgages, credit cards, new and used automobile loans, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, checking and ATM fees, home equity loans and online banking fees.

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.

Creative Capital is a New York based non-profit dedicated to supporting individual artists in pursuit of innovation. It is a national nonprofit organization that provides integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing adventurous projects in all disciplines. Their approach combines funding, counsel and career development services to enable a project's success and foster sustainable practices for our grantees.

Address: 65 Bleecker Street, 7th Floor New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 598-9900
Email: connect@creative-capital.org

A guide teaching people everything they need to know about business credit cards. It covers what business credit is, how it differs from personal credit, and how to use business credit cards to gain rewards, along with many other areas relating to business credit. Visit them on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/creditcardinsider/videos

Fiscal Tiger offers a variety of financial glossaries categorized for different purposes, from taxes to financial aid to investing, to help aspiring artists make better financial decisions.

Fractured Atlas provides resources on professional development, marketing, health care, funding, events, jobs and other artist opportunities.

Address: 248 West 35th Street, Suite 1202 New York, NY 10001
E-mail: support@fracturedatlas.org

A collection of really good online calculators: The "Good Calculators" project is a group of high functioning online calculators which have been carefully programmed to work on computers, smart phones and tablets. The "Good Calculators" projects is ongoing and is meant for there to be a calculator for any of our communities needs, whether they be personal or business.

sources articles from nearly 200 writers located around the world with expertise ranging from active trading to frugal living and everything in between. The site offers a dictionary of financial terms with both a definition, and an interpretation of how the term is used in practice. It also offers articles, tutorials and free investment guides and packages.

The Small Business and Self-Employed Tax Center of the IRS provides access to tax information useful to small businesses with assets of $10 million or less. It contains a section that offers the basics on your tax responsibilities if you are self-employed or an independent contractor.

June Walker, Tax and Financial Advisor to the Self-Employed. Useful financial information in various self employed situations.

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

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

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.

National agency to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns.

Address: 1350 Euclid Avenue, Suite 211 Cleveland, OH 44115
Phone: (216) 522-4180

To nurture, support and strengthen the work of America's finest living artists. Provides significant direct financial support to artists of all disciplines.

Address: 5757 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 580 Los Angeles, CA 90036
Phone: (323) 857-5857