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Alternate ROOTS
Intersection of Art and Activism<br />A regional arts service organization with over 30 years of history, Alternate ROOTS is an invaluable national resource to artists, organizers and cultural workers. As a visible champion of activist artists, ROOTS is looked to for leadership particularly in the Southeastern United States, where it provides its most direct services to its members. Alternate ROOTS provides the connective tissue for a distinct segment of the arts and culture field - artists who have a commitment to making work in, with, by, for and about their communities, and those whose cultural work strives for social justice. While this is a large sector in US arts and culture as many artists work in this way and share these aims, it is, for the most part, informally organized and collaborations are often the result of chance as much as choice. Alternate ROOTS contributes to the sustained artistic development, increased visibility, and stability of activist artists.

American Arts Alliance
The Performing Arts Alliance and its member organizations advocate for federal policies that recognize and strengthen the performing arts and educate elected officials and policy makers in Washington, DC on issues of importance to the performing arts community. Federal policies that support the creation, presentation and preservation of the arts are necessary so that our communities can continue to reap the benefits of great live performance.

Americans for the Arts
Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. With 45 years of service, we are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts.
With offices in Washington, DC and New York, and more than 5,000 organizational and individual members and stakeholders across the country, we are focused on three primary goals:
1. Foster an environment in which the arts can thrive and contribute to the creation of more livable communities.
2. Generate more public- and private-sector resources for the arts and arts education.
3. Build individual appreciation of the value of the arts.
To achieve our goals, we partner with local, state, and national arts organizations; government agencies; business leaders; individual philanthropists; educators; and funders throughout the country. We provide extensive arts industry research, and information and professional development opportunities for community arts leaders via specialized programs and services, including a content-rich website and an annual national convention.
Local arts agencies throughout the United States comprise our core constituency. A variety of unique stakeholder groups with particular interests like public art, united arts fundraising, rural and small communities, state arts agencies, and emerging arts leaders are also supported. Through national visibility and local outreach, we strive to motivate and mobilize opinion leaders and decision-makers who can make the arts thrive in America.

Association of Performing Arts Presenters
With over forty years as an active arts service organization, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (Arts Presenters) is the nexus for the performing arts community and the innovators in the field. Representing both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors of the industry, Arts Presenters members hail from all 50 states and more than 15 countries across the globe and range from large performing arts centers in major urban cities, outdoor festivals and rural community-focused organizations to academic institutions, artists and artist managers. Our membership includes organizations with multi-million dollar budgets and individuals who are performing arts professionals. Members bring performances to over 2 million audience-goers each week. No other association membership rivals the breadth of creative expression, representing disciplines ranging from all forms of dance, music, theater and family programming to puppetry, circus, magic, attractions and performance art.

Bourgeon: Journal of Dance
This locally-produced dance journal is written by dancers for dancers.

Bureau of Primary Health Care Clinic Finder
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated or medically vulnerable. This site helps you locate health centers that allow you to pay what you can afford based on your income.

Carol Michaels, Consultant
“It’s all about harnessing the power of creativity to develop effective and efficient marketing communications solutions.”
- Mike Rosen, Creative Director
At Carol Michaels Marketing, we believe that when you use fresh creativity, integrate the right communications tools, and use them in the right place at the right time you cast a bigger, more effective net to catch prospects.
Led by Creative Director/President Mike Rosen, the associates and partner affiliates of Carol Michaels Marketing have demonstrated outstanding creativity in the areas of marketing communications planning, as well as award-winning art direction, graphic design and copywriting.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Hospit
The Health Care Consumer Initiatives section contains information about Hospitals, Ambulatory Surgical Centers, and Physicians.

Chicago Artists Resource
Chicago Artists Resource (CAR) is a program of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.
CAR describes the landscape of opportunity for Chicago artists working in Dance, Music, Theater and Visual Arts through a unique combination of:an artist-curated resource directory;links to local and national organizations; articles from the New York Foundation for the Arts; UIC Center for Health in the Arts; GYST, Ink, and Ann Daley Consulting;and the voices, artwork and experiences of Chicago artists.

Community Arts Network
The Community Arts Network (CAN) is a portal to the field of community arts, providing news, documentation, theoretical writing, communications, research and educational information. Headquartered at its Web site on the Internet, CAN is a program of Art in the Public Interest (API), a nonprofit organization based in North Carolina.

Consumer Guides to Getting and Keeping Health Insu
The Georgetown University Health Policy Institute has written A CONSUMER GUIDE FOR GETTING AND KEEPING HEALTH INSURANCE for each state and the District of Columbia — fifty-one in all. These Consumer Guides are available at this web site and will be updated periodically as changes in federal and state policy warrant.

Creative Capital
Creative Capital, a nonprofit organization, acts as a catalyst for the development of adventurous and imaginative ideas by supporting artists who pursue innovation in form and/or content in the performing and visual arts, film and video, and in emerging fields. We are committed to working in partnership with the artists whom we fund, providing advisory services and professional development assistance along with multi-faceted financial aid and promotional support throughout the life of each Creative Capital project.

CREDO
The Capital Region Educators of Dance Organization (CREDO) advances dance education centered in the arts in the area of the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. The organization serves your needs if you teach dance, study dance, create dance programs, administer dance programs, fund dance programs, or legislate for the arts. CREDO is an independent organization that is aligned as a State Affiliate of the National Dance Education Organization. It functions in partnership with NDEO to advance dance education and fulfill the needs of the nation through state initiatives and local projects.

Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington
The Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington is an organization dedicated to sustaining and increasing regional leadership, appreciation, support and resources for arts and culture. We build and nurture a regional network by enhancing the connection, collaboration, and conversation within the arts and cultural community and among business and other interest groups. The Cultural Alliance pursues four institutional strategies in order to progress its mission: Research, Convene, Advocate, and Serve.

Cultural Development Corporation
The Cultural Development Corporation creates opportunities for artists and arts organizations that stimulate economic development and improve the quality of life.

CultureCapital.com
Your guide to theatre, dance, music, museums and more!

Dance Critics Association Member Survey Summary
Follow this link to find Lisa Traiger's Dance Critics Association 2007 member survey.

Dance Heritage Coalition
Founded in 1992, the DHC was established to address problems identified by a field-wide study of the current state of preservation and documentation of American dance. The study, jointly commissioned by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, recommended that a coalition of the major dance collections be formed to facilitate communication, and promote joint programs, projects, and policy-making in order to strengthen a national dance documentation and preservation network. The DHC focuses on four areas: ACCESS to materials; the continuing DOCUMENTATION of dance employing both traditional methods and developing technologies; PRESERVATION of existing documentation; and EDUCATION regarding methods, standards, and practice for access, documentation, and preservation.

Dance/USA
As a national service organization for dance, we believe that dance is essential to a healthy society, demonstrating the infinite possibilities for human expression and potential, and facilitating communication within and across cultures. Dance/USA sustains and advances professional dance by addresssing the needs, concerns and interests of artist, administrators and organizations. By providing services and national leadership, Dance/USA enahnces the infrastructure for dance creation, education and dissemination.

danceviewtimes
A website were dance writers share their views on dance and dance performances in Washington DC and New York City.

Disability Benefits 101
Disability Benefits 101 (DB101) helps workers, job seekers, and service providers understand the connections between work and benefits. The DB101 attitude is that the disability experience is unique for each individual, and that benefit programs can affect that experience in different ways at different times. With planning, people with disabilities can take control of finding the programs and jobs that meet their needs. For service providers and program managers, information sharing helps everyone understand how programs interact with each other.
DB101 brings together rules for health coverage, benefit, and employment programs that people with disabilities use. These programs may be run by state, federal government, non-profit, or private organizations. Here we discuss them under one roof and in plain language.

ehealthinsurance
eHealthInsurance is a licensed health insurance agency and the leading online source for individuals, self employed, and small businesses to find, compare and buy Individual Health Insurance, Family Health Insurance, Small Business Health Insurance, Self Employed Health Insurance, and Health Savings Accounts (HSA).

Fractured Atlas
Fractured Atlas is a non-profit organization that serves a national community of artists and arts organizations. Our programs and services facilitate the creation of art by offering vital support to the artists who produce it. We help artists and arts organizations function more effectively as businesses by providing access to funding, healthcare, education, and more, all in a context that honors their individuality and independent spirit. By nurturing today's talented but underrepresented voices, we hope to foster a dynamic and diverse cultural landscape of tomorrow.

GoTour
GoTour gives independent artists the resources they need to take their show on the road. GoTour connects artists and arts communities nationawide, and provides a place to share services, goods and advice.

Health Care Quality and Cost Information

Health Insurance Eligibility Tool at FHCE
The FHCE's original mission was to focus on the uninsured population in California; however, news about the Matrix and Help Line traveled fast and many states began asking the FHCE for versions based on their state's options. In response to the demand, the FHCE developed a customized Matrix for every state in the nation and provided each state's organization of insurance professionals with a beginning supply. As of March 2006, all states have a Matrix guide in circulation and an expanded Help Line service is in the works.
As part of the strategy to quickly educate as many people as possible, the FHCE began working with professional organizations such as the California Association of Health Underwriters, the National Association of Health Underwriters, the California Social Workers Association, and others to enlist members' help with distribution/education aimed at consumers.
The distribution and funding of the FHCE tools could not be possible without the generous donations from private individuals and corporations, other non-profits, and some of the nation’s most well-known insurance companies such as Anthem Blue Cross Foundation, WellPoint Foundation, Kaiser, and Health Net.

HealthGrades
HealthGrades (Nasdaq:HGRD) is the leading healthcare ratings organization, providing ratings and profiles of hospitals, nursing homes and physicians to consumers, corporations, health plans and hospitals. Millions of consumers and hundreds of the nation's largest employers, health plans and hospitals rely on HealthGrades' independent ratings, consulting and products to make healthcare decisions based on the quality of care.
Founded in 1999, the firm is headquartered in Golden, Colorado, and has over 160 employees.

Hospital Compare
Hospital Compare was created through the efforts of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Department of Health and Human Services, and other members of the Hospital Quality Alliance: Improving Care Through Information (HQA). The information on this website has been provided primarily by hospitals that have agreed to submit quality information for Hospital Compare to make public.

Improv Arts, Inc.
Through the artistic vision of its founding directors Improv Arts Inc. initiates the creation, performance, research, and evaluation of improvisational dance, music, and multi-disciplinary performance. Improv Arts Inc. accomplishes its goals through operating its performance companies, creating opportunities for networking and collaboration among artists, and producing educational programming.

Matchbook
MatchBook.org is an online cultural marketplace that brings together New England's performing artists and the people and organizations who present them. This free website features an easy-to-search directory of artists, performance spaces and presenting organizations, designed to MATCH artists with presenters that BOOK them to perform.

Meetup.Com
Use this great resource to find others in the DC area who love dance as much as you do. There are many Latin dance Meetup groups, as well as Ballroom dance groups and club dancing groups. If you don't see a Meetup group that fits your needs, simply create your own and start talking about dance, viewing dance and participating in dance today.

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation supports the richness and diversity of the region’s arts resources and promotes wider access to the art and artists of the region, nation and world.
The Foundation serves the states and territories of Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, the US Virgin Islands, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Minute Clinic (Fixed-Free Clinics)
We’re doing what we can to make healthcare a little easier for people with a lot going on. Our board-certified practitioners are trained to diagnose and treat common family illnesses, such as strep throat, bronchitis and ear, eye and sinus infections.This site helps you locate a Minute Clinic near you.

Multi Arts production Fund (MAP)
The MAP Fund is a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.
MAP's aim is to assist artists who are exploring the dynamics of live-performance within our changing society, thus reflecting our culture's innovation and growing diversity. MAP seeks especially to support work that brings insight to the issue of cultural difference, be that in class, gender, generation, ethnicity, or tradition.

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) is the membership organization that unites, represents and serves the nation's state and jurisdictional arts agencies. Each of the 56 states and jurisdictions has created an agency to support excellence in and access to the arts.
NASAA's mission is to strengthen state arts agencies. We represent their individual and collective interests, empower their work through knowledge, and advance the arts as an essential public benefit.
NASAA works at the national, state and local levels to ensure that:
-Every individual has abundant opportunities to participate in the artistic experience;
-The arts play a valued role in the educational, economic and cultural well-being of our communities;
-The nation's artists and arts organizations are key partners in providing public benefits; and
-Our nation's diversity is recognized and celebrated through the arts.

National Dance Education Assocation
The National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) advances dance education centered in the arts. We are the voice of representation for the field in legislatures, schools of dance, PreK-12 schools, and institutions of higher education throughout the country. As a non-profit organization, NDEO is dedicated to promoting standards of excellence in dance education through the development of quality education in the art of dance through professional development, service and leadership. We hold public discussions, sponsor institutes, workshops, conferences and programs. We develop guidelines, promote standards, and design curricula.

National Dance Project
The National Dance Project (NDP) provides a system of support for the living, growing discipline of contemporary dance by supporting the production and distribution of dance in the United States. NDP views touring as central to the vitality of dance as an art form and structures its granting process to link the creation and touring of new work. Through the dedicated efforts of dance presenters across the country, NDP helps audiences connect with the rich and varied talents of choreographers and their companies.

National Endowment for the Arts
he National Endowment for the Arts is a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts, both new and established; bringing the arts to all Americans; and providing leadership in arts education. Established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government, the Endowment is the nation's largest annual funder of the arts, bringing great art to all 50 states, including rural areas, inner cities, and military bases.

National Performance Network
NPN provides support for established and emerging artists in dance, music, theater, performance art, puppetry, and spoken word. It serves as the developmental rung on the ladder for emerging contemporary performing artists because it provides rare or first-time touring opportunities. NPN also plays a critical role for mid-career and established artists who continue to create new work and to tour on the network because it offers a wealth of opportunities at a time when support is diminishing. Equally important, NPN connects artists with progressive presenters, arts organizations, and communities across the country.

New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA)
TNEFA has been a significant cultural force since 1976, when it was created as one of six regional arts agencies nationwide, funded primarily through the National Endowment for the Arts and New England state arts agencies. Today's NEFA has evolved considerably from the original regional model, and now operates with an annual budget of $5 million to develop and manage arts initiatives on local, regional, national and international levels.
Through extensive funding, advocacy, and networking efforts, NEFA promotes the creation and distribution of the full range of artistic expression. NEFA functions as a grantmaker, program initiator, regional laboratory, project coordinator, developer of resources, and builder of creative partnerships among artists, arts organizations and funders. Each program and project that is brought to life at NEFA is created with the underlying goal of building a stronger and more dynamic infrastructure for the arts. NEFA celebrates New England and its characteristic values while playing a national role by distributing model programs, supporting international cultural exchange, and advocating access to the arts for everyone.

NYC Performing Arts Spaces
NYC Performing Arts Spaces is the only nonprofit organization that focuses solely on resolving performing artists' critical and on-going need for rehearsal and performance space. We take a multi-faceted approach, providing valuable free services to both performing artists who need suitable workspace and facilities that have underused space. This focus evolved from our beginnings over 20 years ago.

Options for Avoiding and Managing Medical Debt

Partnership for Prescription Assistance
The Partnership for Prescription Assistance brings together America's pharmaceutical companies, doctors, other health care providers, patient advocacy organizations and community groups to help qualifying patients who lack prescription coverage get the medicines they need through the public or private program that's right for them. Many will get them free or nearly free. Among the organizations collaborating on this program are the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association, the Lupus Foundation of America, the NAACP, the National Alliance for Hispanic Health and the National Medical Association.

Pennsylvania Performing Artists on Tour (PennPat)
The purpose of Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour (PennPAT) is to increase opportunities for professional Pennsylvania-based performing artists to obtain successful touring engagements.
Through a multi-layered approach that includes grants to presenters, grants to artists, training for artists and marketing support, PennPAT seeks to nurture the diverse ecology of presenting and touring.
PennPAT offers support for touring engagements with PennPAT roster artists to presenters in:Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jerse, New York, North Caroli, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, U.S. Virgin Islands, West Virginia.
Created as a unique public/private partnership administered by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, PennPAT continues to garner funding and guidance from its four founding partners: The Heinz Endowments, William Penn Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and The Pew Charitable Trusts.

PharmacyChecker
PharmacyChecker.com LLC ("PC") collects, evaluates, and reports credentials, prices, and customer feedback regarding pharmacies that operate online and through mail-order and fax (generally referred to as “online pharmacies”. It is the leading independent source of information about online pharmacies. PC helps consumers continually find the lowest priced products from the most qualified and reputable online pharmacies. PC also provides customized reports and services as market intelligence about the online pharmacy industry.

RevolutionHealth
Revolution Health Group is a leading consumer-centric health company founded to transform how people approach their overall health and wellness. By putting individuals at the center of their own healthcare, Revolution Health allows them to make informed choices and offers more convenience and control over their individual healthcare decisions.

Southern Arts Federation (SAF)
The Southern Arts Federation, a non-profit regional arts organization founded in 1975, creates partnerships and collaborations; assists in the development of artists, arts professionals and arts organizations; presents, promotes and produces Southern arts and cultural programming; and advocates for the arts and arts education. The organization works in partnership with the state arts agencies of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. It is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, member states, foundations, businesses and individuals.

State Insurance Department Websites
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is the organization of insurance regulators from the 50 states, the District of Columbia and the five U.S. territories. The NAIC provides a forum for the development of uniform policy when uniformity is appropriate.
A state regulator's primary responsibility is to protect the interests of insurance consumers, and the NAIC helps regulators fulfill that obligation. That assistance is related to the regulators' shared objectives of financial and market conduct regulation.

Sweet Home New Orleans
Sweet Home New Orleans is a non-profit agency that offers social services and financial assistance to the city’s musicians, Mardi Gras Indians, and Social Aid & Pleasure Club members. Sweet Home’s mission is to perpetuate New Orleans’ cultural traditions by providing direct services to the individuals and institutions that will carry them forward.

The Field
The Field's mission is to serve independent performing artists on a completely non-exclusive basis. This means that everything we do is open to artists from all aesthetic viewpoints, cultural backgrounds, and levels of development. Our priority is to create a climate where risk-taking and originality are championed, and where the broadest range of voices are included. Field programs are affordable, accessible, and rigorous. To support independent performing artists, The Field's programs are directed toward the creation of new work and its dissemination.