Professional Development:
First Peoples’ Heritage, Language & Culture Council – Arts Toolkit – Sections feature Arts Portfolio Handbook, Grant Writing Handbook, Careers in the Arts Handbook, Developing Arts Organizations, Art as a Business, Arts Education and Training Links, Reports and Articles, Aboriginal Arts and Culture Organizations, Aboriginal Media Links, Galleries and Collections, Funding and Information Resources
Fundraising:
Tony Poderis: Fundraising Non-Profit Fund-raising Resource – Categories include Fundraising planning, sources and prospects, organizing campaigns, managing campaigns, after the campaign, development team, using new media
Artists and Nonprofits:
Artists In Canada – Visual Arts Directory connecting the world to Canadian Artists, Art Galleries and Art Resources (add your website).
Artists’ Legal Outreach – Art can get messy. The Artists’ Legal Outreach can help with their group of volunteer lawyers and law students committed to working with artists and art organizations.
CARFAC (Canadian Artists’ Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens) – A non-profit corporation that is the national voice of Canada’s professional visual artists.
CARCC (Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective) – Copyright in Canada is automatic upon creation of a work and usually lasts for the artist’s lifetime plus fifty years. Through its licensing services, CARCC can help an artist to protect copyright and to benefit from it.
Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art – Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art encourages and supports the intellectual and creative development of women in the visual arts by providing an ongoing forum for education and critical dialogue.
Pacific Legal Education & Outreach Society – PLEO creates legal tools and resources for artists and non-profits to prevent legal issues before they happen.
Canada Revenue Agency Interpretation Bulletins:
- IT504R2-CONSOLID Visual Artists and Writers: This interpretation Bulletin addresses the issue of “reasonable expectation of profit”
- IT525R-CONSOLID Performing Artists: This interpretation Bulletin taxation for self-employed artists.
- IT473R Inventory Valuation: This interpretation Bulletin is the “Toni Onley” bulletin that addresses HST issues as concerns unsold inventory
