{"id":165,"date":"2009-04-03T06:20:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T13:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2016-05-25T13:29:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T20:29:54","slug":"alternatives-to-creating-yet-another-nonprofit-arts-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/alternatives-to-creating-yet-another-nonprofit-arts-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives to Creating &#8220;Yet Another&#8221; NonProfit Arts Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When artists and creative sector groups begin to face the need to fundraise and establish a more organized and permanent structure for the projects they want to develop, the question I am most frequently asked is: &#8220;How do we form a nonprofit society?&#8221; followed closely by &#8220;Where do we get grants and how do we apply?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Less rarely, do people ask themselves the question that is my first response: &#8220;Why do you want to do that?&#8221; and then &#8220;What else have you considered?&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are some alternatives you can investigate before, or instead of, taking that step. <em>(Complete article at About.com <a href=\"http:\/\/nonprofit.about.com\/od\/nonprofitbasics\/tp\/nonprofitalternatives.htm\">8 Alternatives to Starting a Nonprofit<\/a>. It is a U.S. author, but the principles apply in Canada.)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seek fiscal sponsorship from an existing NGO<\/li>\n<li>Start a local chapter of a national non-profit.<\/li>\n<li>Put together an unincorporated association to fulfill your mission without seeking tax-exempt status.<\/li>\n<li>Form or join a giving circle.<\/li>\n<li>Become a social entrepreneur by forming a for-profit social venture to accomplish your social goals.<\/li>\n<li>Organize support for (your) cause (project) at an online social networking site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This whole area is so misunderstood it requires a more thorough response than this posting. But if you or your group are considering these questions and don&#8217;t know what alternatives may in fact be better for your needs, start by reading this article, and tap into the expert resources available through both arts and non-arts resource organizations, including this one (posted originally on the BC Cultural Sector Development Council site: www.sectorcouncil.ca).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When artists and creative sector groups begin to face the need to fundraise and establish a more organized and permanent structure for the projects they want to develop, the question I am most frequently asked is: &#8220;How do we form a nonprofit society?&#8221; followed closely by &#8220;Where do we get grants and how do we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,12,26],"tags":[30,16,35,18,6],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capacity-development","category-community-benefit","category-leadership","category-professional-development","tag-arts","tag-governance","tag-management","tag-policy","tag-ponderings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judipiggott.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}