The National Endowment for the Arts supports the visual arts -- painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, drawing, craft, etc. -- through grants to organizations that serve the needs of and enhance opportunities for artists and their audiences. The Arts Endowment is committed to advancing and preserving the work of contemporary visual artists that reflects serious and exceptional aesthetic investigation. Grants in the visual arts support projects undertaken by organizations that encourage individual artistic development, experimentation, and dialogue between artists and the public through exhibitions, residencies, publications, commissions, public art works, conservation, documentation, services to the field, and public programs.

The Grantsmanship Center The Grantsmanship Center (TGCI) is a clearinghouse of fundraising information and provides training in grantsmanship and proposal writing for nonprofit organizations and government agencies. In addition to training program and schedule information, the center's Web site offers grant source information on community foundations and federal, state, and international funding; current Federal Register grant funding information, including a daily summary; TGCI Magazine, an online publication; and a listing of publications for fundraisers, including TGCI proposal writing guides. The Web site also has a new resource, Winning Grant Proposals Online, with examples of effective proposal writing models for designing programs, consisting entirely of recent federally funded, top-ranked grant proposals in a wide variety of subject areas. Membership is require to access some of the resources on the site.

The National Arts Marketing Project (NAMP), developed by the Arts & Business Council of Americans for the Arts, is a group of workshops sponsored nationally by American Express to help arts organizations devise and implement marketing strategies to build attendance, diversify audiences, and increase earned revenue. More than 340 different arts organizations have attended these workshops in the past three years. For more information about the national program and other cities that participate in NAMP, please visit the Americans for the Arts website. For more information about arts marketing, or for information about customized training, visit ArtsMarketing.org. All of the marketing workshops are specifically designed for executive directors, marketing managers, and development professionals at small to midsized organizations, as well as more junior staff at larger institutions. Upcoming Workshops October 08 The Art (Business) Of Collaboration October 29 Staff, Boards & Volunteers As Advocates November 12 Market Research November 17 Marketing Plan Workshop Location: American Express Headquarters 3 World Financial Center New York, NY 10285 Workshop Time: 9:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m. Networking Breakfast 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Program Registration Fees: ABC/NY Members: $45 per workshop Non-members: $75 per workshop Visit www.artsandbusiness-ny.org to register.