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Available Trainings:

Legal Entity Selection for Artists:
Designing the Best Structure for Your Work

Description: The current political context has major implications for how we structure art practice and arts organizations. Now is the time to think creatively and strategically about your legal entity.
Nonprofit, LLC, fiscal sponsorship, cooperative, some combination?
This training covers a wide range of considerations, including
fundraising, taxes, risk, democratic governance, and more. 

Contracts for Creatives

Description: Contracts are opportunity to put our values into practice, build value-aligned relationships, and have important conversations. If you are an artist, contract negotiation is an essential part of valuing your work.
This training offers practical tools for empowered contract creation and negotiation,
covers the essential elements of any arts contract,
and includes tips for equity-driven, artist-centered contracting.
Can be customized for different disciplines (performing arts, literary, etc).

Putting Shared Leadership into Action

Description: Based on Hope’s real-life experience transitioning the nonprofit she founded to a model of shared leadership, plus her many years of advising nonprofits on how to do the same, this training breaks down the journey of moving to a more democratic leadership structure. This practical, equity-minded training covers how to get started, common pitfalls, resources, prompts for reflection, and Board considerations.

Get Your (Art) House in Order

Description: Are you and your team ready to do the work? 
In the face of funding cuts and rising threats to vulnerable communities,
now is the time to get your art practice or art organization in order.
This workshop offers prompts for assessment and a checklist of action items covering a wide range of issues, including entity selection, nonprofit best practices, budgeting, compliance, data security, and good governance.