Nonprofit and Management Information
Links of interest
Issues of interest
Arts Wisconsin's Resource Center helps arts-related nonprofit organizations, and the creative people involved, be more effective leaders and organizations.
Take your pick of categories from the array of choices listed below, to answer many or most of your questions about boards of directors, community partnerships, financial management, fundraising, assessment, and planning.
Links to the galaxy of resources from the arts and community development world:
- Community Arts Leaders Resource Center -- your one-stop portal for community arts links, articles and consultants! Brought to you by Arts Wisconsin, Illinois Arts Alliance and Michigan Association of Community Arts Agencies
- Online resources for the arts:
- links to the global galaxy of organizations and agencies focusing on nonprofit, arts, management, economic and community development assistance (coming soon)
Non-profit organization issues:
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Starting a nonprofit organization
- Forming a Non-Profit Organization: A Checklist
- Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions information and forms
- Internal Revenue Service's "Tax Information for Charitable Organizations".
- How to start a non-profit, from About.com
- Community development and engagement
- Organizational management and stability
- Leadership
- Partnerships
- Preparing a budget for your project and/or organization
- Creating a business/strategic plan for your organization
- Fundraising
- How to develop a good media list
- Arts education
- Best practices in non-profit management:
- Illinois Donors Forum Nonprofit Principles and Best Practices
- Nonprofit accountability, from Independent Sector
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Legal Resources
- Assessment and evaluation
- Small Business/Economic Development/Entrepreneurship information
- Information for individual artists
- UW-UW Extension Small Business Development Center
- UW Extension Center for Community Economic Development
- Wisconsin Entrepreneurs Network, from the Wisconsin Department of Commerce
- Wisconsin Women's Business Incubator Corporation
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Technology and how it can help non-profits achieve their mission (coming soon)

