Saltonstall Arts Colony: Grant Writing
This guide was created for a 2012 course and has not been updated since.
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Artist colonies--United States--Case studies
Artists' studios
Artists and community
Artists and community--United States
Artistic collaboration
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Social aspects
Arts--United States
Arts and society--United States
Art patronage--United States
Arts--Audiences
Art and society
Art and society--United States
Art and state United States
Authorship
Authorship--Psychological aspects
Authors--Psychology
Creative writing
Creative writing--Psychological aspects
Literature and society
Photographers
Photographers--Attitudes
Photography, Artistic
Arts--Economic aspects--United States
Arts--Finance
Arts--United States--Finance
Arts--United States--Finance--Case studies
Government aid to the arts--United States
Government aid to the arts--United States--Case studies
Arts fund raising--United States
Arts fund raising--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Arts--Marketing
Art--Economic aspects
Art--Economic aspects--United States
Artists--Economic conditions
Fund raising
Fund raising--United States
Proposal Writing for Grants
Nonprofit organizations
Nonprofit organizations--Finance
Nonprofit organizations--Management
Corporate sponsorship
Artists' studios
Artists and community
Artists and community--United States
Artistic collaboration
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Social aspects
Arts--United States
Arts and society--United States
Art patronage--United States
Arts--Audiences
Art and society
Art and society--United States
Art and state United States
Authorship
Authorship--Psychological aspects
Authors--Psychology
Creative writing
Creative writing--Psychological aspects
Literature and society
Photographers
Photographers--Attitudes
Photography, Artistic
Arts--Economic aspects--United States
Arts--Finance
Arts--United States--Finance
Arts--United States--Finance--Case studies
Government aid to the arts--United States
Government aid to the arts--United States--Case studies
Arts fund raising--United States
Arts fund raising--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Arts--Marketing
Art--Economic aspects
Art--Economic aspects--United States
Artists--Economic conditions
Fund raising
Fund raising--United States
Proposal Writing for Grants
Nonprofit organizations
Nonprofit organizations--Finance
Nonprofit organizations--Management
Corporate sponsorship
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When you settle on a subject heading, open the "Subdivisions" link below it. Most General OneFile subject searchs produce very large retrievals and the "subdivisions" help you narrow your search to a particular aspect. For this topic note: Behavior, Buildings and Facilities, Economic Aspects, Equipment and Supplies, Finance, Government Finance, and Social Aspects.
If the best available subdivision is still too broad, open it and add your own Keywords in the "Search within these results" slot at the upper left.
User Advisory: When first viewing your retrievals in General OneFile, note that you are seeing only the "Magazines" (popular articles) and must click on the tabs for "Academic Journals" (scholarly articles) or "News" (newspaper articles) to see those results.
ProQuest Research Library : is another comprehensive database with substantial full text. Use the "Thesaurus" (above the search slots) to preview what Subject Headings are available. Subect searching can be a more efficient way to search than with only Keywords, since it guarantees that the articles retrieved actually be about the Subject--not just use a particular word.
For this topic likely Subjects include Artists Studios, and Artists or Writers or Photographers in combination with Economic Conditions, Retreats, or Community.
Note that to the right of your search results you can limit your retrieval by "Source Type" (including Magazines, Newspapers, Scholarly Journals), "Document Type," (including Cover Story, Editorial, or Interview), "Document Feature" (including Photographs, Illustrations), and "Location."
Above each set of articles you retrieve ProQuest will display related Subject searches to help either broaden or narrow your focus.
User Advisory: ProQuest is fussy about entering Subject searches in the designated search slot. If your subject is a person, enter the name--last name first--in the "Person" slot; if a named group of any kind--Microsoft, the Catholic Church, Radiohead, the New York Mets--enter it in "Co/Org"; if a place enter it in "Location."
Academic Search Premier Comprehensive subject coverage with considerable full text. Note that there is a “Subject Terms” link just above the search boxes, allowing you to search the index of Subject Headings--often a good first stop for more efficient Subject searching whereby you are guaranteed that your topic is indeed a main subject of the articles retrieved.
When you settle on a subject heading, open the "Subdivisions" link below it. Most General OneFile subject searchs produce very large retrievals and the "subdivisions" help you narrow your search to a particular aspect. For this topic note: Behavior, Buildings and Facilities, Economic Aspects, Equipment and Supplies, Finance, Government Finance, and Social Aspects.
If the best available subdivision is still too broad, open it and add your own Keywords in the "Search within these results" slot at the upper left.
User Advisory: When first viewing your retrievals in General OneFile, note that you are seeing only the "Magazines" (popular articles) and must click on the tabs for "Academic Journals" (scholarly articles) or "News" (newspaper articles) to see those results.
ProQuest Research Library : is another comprehensive database with substantial full text. Use the "Thesaurus" (above the search slots) to preview what Subject Headings are available. Subect searching can be a more efficient way to search than with only Keywords, since it guarantees that the articles retrieved actually be about the Subject--not just use a particular word.
For this topic likely Subjects include Artists Studios, and Artists or Writers or Photographers in combination with Economic Conditions, Retreats, or Community.
Note that to the right of your search results you can limit your retrieval by "Source Type" (including Magazines, Newspapers, Scholarly Journals), "Document Type," (including Cover Story, Editorial, or Interview), "Document Feature" (including Photographs, Illustrations), and "Location."
Above each set of articles you retrieve ProQuest will display related Subject searches to help either broaden or narrow your focus.
User Advisory: ProQuest is fussy about entering Subject searches in the designated search slot. If your subject is a person, enter the name--last name first--in the "Person" slot; if a named group of any kind--Microsoft, the Catholic Church, Radiohead, the New York Mets--enter it in "Co/Org"; if a place enter it in "Location."
Academic Search Premier Comprehensive subject coverage with considerable full text. Note that there is a “Subject Terms” link just above the search boxes, allowing you to search the index of Subject Headings--often a good first stop for more efficient Subject searching whereby you are guaranteed that your topic is indeed a main subject of the articles retrieved.
A good initial strategy in this database is to search a likely topic in the Subject Terms and when you find it “explode” the term by double clicking it--this brings up a list of related Subject terms. You can check as many terms as you like before "adding" them to your search by AND-ing or OR-ing them together.
For this topic likely Subjects include Artist Colonies, Artist Collectives, and Artists or Writers or Photographers in combination with Retreat or Communities.
For this topic likely Subjects include Artist Colonies, Artist Collectives, and Artists or Writers or Photographers in combination with Retreat or Communities.
User Advisory: For any retrieved set of articles, there will be a box displayed on the left that will limit the articles to “Scholarly” journals—just check the box and click the “Update Results” button below.
LexisNexis Academic : News: Our best national, international, and local newspaper coverage--100% full text. Don't settle for the default "Easy Search"--choose "News" at the lower left and then "All News." Then change the default "Everywhere" search to "Headline & Lead" (otherwise a keyword searche of full text will retrieve too many irrelevant hits). Even more effective at targeting articles where your topic is discussed, not simply mentioned, is to use the "at least 5 occurrences" option from the drop-down menu to the right of each search slot. This guarantees that your search will retrieve only articles in which your terms are used at least 5 times--an indication that they constitute a main topic.Use "Specify date" to select a time range also helps narrow your results. You might begin here with--"art! colon!" (! is the truncation symbol here, so art! gets you art or arts or artists and colon! gets you colony or colonies. You might also try substituting communit! or retreat! for colon!
LexisNexis Academic : News: Our best national, international, and local newspaper coverage--100% full text. Don't settle for the default "Easy Search"--choose "News" at the lower left and then "All News." Then change the default "Everywhere" search to "Headline & Lead" (otherwise a keyword searche of full text will retrieve too many irrelevant hits). Even more effective at targeting articles where your topic is discussed, not simply mentioned, is to use the "at least 5 occurrences" option from the drop-down menu to the right of each search slot. This guarantees that your search will retrieve only articles in which your terms are used at least 5 times--an indication that they constitute a main topic.Use "Specify date" to select a time range also helps narrow your results. You might begin here with--"art! colon!" (! is the truncation symbol here, so art! gets you art or arts or artists and colon! gets you colony or colonies. You might also try substituting communit! or retreat! for colon!
- Artists Retreats and Colonies: a list from the Yahoo Directory. Exploring some of these Web sites might lead to funding ideas.
- National Endowment for the Arts: The NEA is the United States' largest annual funder of the arts. Under "Grants" click on "Recent Grants" and use the "By Discipline" tab to zero in on "Artist Communities." Under "Research" see "Research Reports" for recent statistical information on topics such as consumer support for the arts and artists' economic situation.. Under "Publications" see the "Annual Report" (click on the free pdf version to the right) for a financial summary of the fiscal year and profiles of some of the grants awarded. Just below the link to the annual report note that you can click on Literature or Visual Arts for federal grant information. Under "Resources--Funding" see "State Arts Agencies & Regional Arts Organizations" for state and local funding.
- Grants.gov: A one-stop approach to all federal grants, with plenty of tutorial assistance for the grant application process. You can search grant opportunities by subject Category, including "Arts."
- Information on Grants Available in New York State: Try the New York State Council on the Arts Grants page.
- National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA): It pays to know potential donors and the rules they play by. Under Research see in particular Funding and Grant Making.
- Regional Arts Organizations: Funding: LInks to a half dozen regional arts organizations.
- Americans for the Arts:Look under "information & Services" and "Networks" for imformation about arts funding and organizations providing it.
- Fundsnet Art & Culture Grants: A list of organizations, foundations, agencies, and businesses that provide arts funding--with links to their sites.
The Foundation Center: Many of the resources here must be purchased, but the Foundation Center allows you a free registration which gives access to some materials and allows you to sign up for newsletters on grant opportunities in your area of interest, for instance arts, or health, or the environment.
- Mouse over "Get Started: for the menu of options. Under "Learn About" there are free resources such as "Proposal Writing" and "Foundations and Fundraising," as well as some free resources under "Training Courses."
- On the "Get Started" menu also look at the "Topical Resource Lists," where you'll be able to find fundraising information by category (note "Corporate Philanthropy in the Arts"). You will find some linked online resources, some articles that you can locate by doing a "Journal Titles" search at the top of the IC Library home page, and some books that you can look for by title in the IC collection, the Cornell Library collection, and in the WorldCat database--though which you can place interlibrary loan orders.
- Also mouse over "Gain Knowledge" on the Foundation Center home page and take a look "Funding for the Arts," as well as the free resources available under "Research Studies," including "National Trends" and "Special Topic Trends," which in includes "Vital Signs: Arts Funding in the Current Economy October 2010." .
- Also mouse over "Find Funders" to access the "Foundation Finder"--where you can search by foundation name or city, state, zip code. By entering Ithaca or 14850 you might come across some potential donors.
- MLA citation for books: in print, from databases, on the Web
- MLA citation for articles: in print, from databases, on the Web.
- MLA citation for Web and Multimedia resources, including Web sites, movies, DVDs, CDs, and videos.
- MLA in-text (parenthetical) citation (far less satanic than the first three).
