June 28, 2009
New York Arts Fund Offers Cheap Rent to Charities
The New York Foundation for the Arts is offering some help to recession-plagued arts groups in the city: a chance to claim some discounted office space, according to Dana Variano on the PhilanthroMedia blog.
Citing a report in the Philanthropy News Digest, Ms. Variano says the foundation is now soliciting proposals from groups and artists affiliated with it.
Those artists and charities selected for the program will be eligible for discounted rent – -$200 per month — on work space in the foundation’s office, which will include Internet access, discounted scanning and printing services, meeting rooms, and other amenities.
Ms. Variano praises the program and suggests it might be a model for helping arts groups and artists — and even small for-profit entities — in other cities weather the recession. “Have an extra office or building area in your workplace?” she writes. “Why not try renting out the space to help out a struggling small business, and save some funds yourself?”
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