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Funding for Individual Artists !

reuseinthearts — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:25:38 +0000

Materials for the Arts received this news from Independent Production Fund: I wanted to let you know about a new service that we are offering at the Independent Production Fund. We are providing fiscal sponsorship for individual filmmakers and for-profit production companies looking to raise money for their film projects from foundation, government grants, or online tax-deductible donations from individuals. Because most foundations and government institutions will only make grants to a non-profit, the Independent Production Fund (a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization) can serve as the fiscal sponsor of a filmmaker’s project.

As part of the fiscal sponsorship program, we are offering several services to help filmmakers with their projects including online donation and ticket sales processing, fundraising consultations, and equipment and space rental discounts.

If any one you know might be interested in using this fiscal sponsorship service (also called fiscal agent), please feel free to have them contact me. Additionally, if you have an email list or the chance to let more people know about this, I would greatly appreciate it.

Here is a link to the section on our website describing our fiscal sponsorship program: http://www.ipfmedia.org/fiscalsponsorship. Our press release announcing the service is also available.

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reuseinthearts — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:15:14 +0000

Hi I’m Harriet Taub, Director of Materials for the Arts. We at MFTA are looking forward to hearing from you – your needs, your concerns and your insights into how we can make an impact on each other and not an impact on our landfills and waste stream

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reuseinthearts — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:10:00 +0000

If you have any leads or links for sites that have great information on technical theater please let me know and I can add it to our sidebar so the group can benefit.

Also please invite any friends you know that work in the arts who could benefit or supply some information to this new group.

Talk to you guys soon

Welcome one and all

reuseinthearts — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:46:58 +0000

This discussion group was created to see what opportunities are available for helping fellow artists by reusing leftover materials and incorporating other ecofriendly practices. We will be exploring ways to make quality productions under the constraints of rising technical costs and tight budgets