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Financial support for the Alliance comes from a variety of sources, primarily private foundations and corporations, government agencies at the City, State and Federal levels, with smaller amounts from the City and State of New York for specific projects.

The Alliance is an advocate for all the arts, organizing common efforts to increase funding and involve cultural institutions in the city's economic and educational policy making. Its publications actively promote support for the arts in general and for arts education in particular.

The Alliance is a publisher of a number of books and reports and electronic publications. Two books are sold commercially, but they and all other Alliance publications are donated to public libraries, schools and arts organizations for free public access. A total of seven publications have been produced in the last year and are currently available:

• The Arts and Business Survey This report—based on a survey of Business Improvement Districts, Local Development Corporations and their relationships with the New York City Cultural Community—seeks to build a broad composite picture of the business-culture relationships under investigation, and to point out the benefits of these interactions and provide a few illustrative case studies.
• Culture Builds New York This study takes a look at the economic impact of capital construction at New York City cultural institutions.
• Who Pays for the Arts? This report looks at income trends at New York City's cultural organizations. This pioneering study reveals the importance of public funding to arts groups, particularly those in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island and those with smaller budgets citywide. It looks at the patters of funding from the public and private sectors, as well as the emergence of earned income as a significant source of revenue; $12.95 paper, 16.95 from the Alliance (includes shipping and handling)
• The Economic Impact of the Arts in New York City and New York (1997) This study was commissioned by the New York State Council on the Art and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. It is the first of its kind and provides new information that the arts continue to have a major impact on the economic health of New York City and State;
• New York City Culture Catalog, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (1994). The most complete cultural guide available; $12.95 paper, 16.95 from the Alliance (includes shipping and handling).
• Kids Culture Catalog, 2nd edition, distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (1998). A guide for teachers and parents to arts programs in New York City for children, families and school groups; $12.95 paper, 16.95 from the Alliance (includes shipping and handling).
• Future Safe, Estate Planning for Artists in a Time of AIDS (1992). Practical advice about the preservation of artistic work. Distributed free by the Alliance.
• NYCkidsARTS. Twice yearly pamphlet featuring arts education programs at cultural institutions or in schools for children, written for teachers and parents and distributed free by the Alliance with the Board of Education and the United Federation of Teachers. Teachers should contact their district arts coordinator to obtain a copy. Copies may be purchased from the Alliance, $3.95 per copy (includes shipping and handling).
• NYC ARTS Culture Guide and Calendar. Published each summer since the summer of 1996, these calendars have been highly visible and successful as well as providing an important source of earned income. They are distributed free all around the city at visitors centers and cultural institutions. Copies may be purchased from the Alliance, $3.95 per copy (includes shipping and handling).

Please contact the Alliance for more information about how to order copies of these printed publications.

Alliance for the Arts
330 West 42nd Street, #1701
New York, NY 10036
Phone (212) 947-6340
Fax (212) 947-6416
E-Mail: info@allianceforarts.org

The Alliance is a leader in developing electronic applications of its publishing and research activities. It has established four sites on the Internet—for the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, the NYC ARTS and for NYCkidsARTS as well as a general resource and portal site. The Alliance has taken the lead in working with the Department of Cultural Affairs in developing the Citywide Cultural Database, a computerized Web-based system linking the city arts agency with nonprofit organizations. It will collect and use information about the arts and will promote the city's cultural life to the general public, teachers, parents and kids. This will be the most comprehensive resource of its kind, both a centralized location to access information about culture in New York and a gateway to other cultural resources.

The Alliance is a nonprofit research center, responding to issues in the cultural community which need study and analysis or in organizing advocacy efforts for government funding for the arts or promotion of the arts to the tourist industry. Its economic impact studies have resulted in increased government funding and have coordinated the centralization of a database reflecting the arts industry in New York City and State.

The Alliance is based in New York but has an impact as a national organization, primarily through the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS and its widely replicated studies of the economic impact of the arts. The Estate Project is leading national efforts to preserve the work of artists with AIDS in partnerships with a variety of institutions including the Guggenheim Museum, the New York Public Library and the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences.