Now is the time to support artistic freedom. Champion shifting the culture.
Get in the mix on our Next Big Thing.
We foster contemporary art and writing programs, new works, and events that empower participants and audiences, improve mental health, and build community.
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Build with us.
The Arts Initiative champions artistic freedom that shifts culture.
Your generous gift directly supports individual artists, writers, and newcomers to experience and contribute to transformation through the arts: their classes and mentorship with leaders in their field, their new work, their grants, and their sustainable, longterm practices, especially vital now, as thousands of artists have lost access to regional and national funding.
The Arts Initiative is a fiscally sponsored project of Counterpart/ The Field, a nationally registered not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization serving the arts community.
Questions? Email: [email protected]
Ways to Give
The Arts Initiative is supported by funding partners who believe in the power of championing emerging and established artists to shift culture.
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The Arts Initiative is supported by funding partners who believe in the power of championing emerging and established artists to shift culture.
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Donations can also be made by check and mailed to Counterpart by way of the Arts Initiative.
Please make the check payable to Counterpart, in the memo section write The Arts Initiative. Email [email protected] for the address to send your checks to begin processing
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Select the wire transfer option when you check out online and enter your contact details so our fiscal sponsor’s Finance team can follow up with you to complete the transaction.
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Email [email protected] to arrange.
THE ARTS INITIATIVE is a sponsored project with The Performance Zone Inc, EIN: 13-3357408 (dba Counterpart), a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization with a four star charity rating, established in 1986.
Contributions to Counterpart earmarked for THE ARTS INITIATIVE are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. For more information about Counterpart, or for our national charities registration, contact: Counterpart, phone: 212-691-6969.
Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Join Our Circle of Guardian Angels
The Arts Initiative is supported by funding partners who believe in the power of championing emerging and established artists to shift culture.
Consider a generous gift to maximize your impact.
Patron Circle — $5,000/year
Your gift enables the Arts Initiative to transform community with a commission of a new transformational poetry workshop series. You can request your donation to go instead towards transforming vacant spaces and communities with new art.
Benefits include:
A complimentary signed gift, such as a newly released chapbook or anthology from our programming.
A complimentary artwork gift, such as a one-of-a kind framed work of a transformational collective poem written by the community you championed.
Recognition on our website
$4,712 tax-deductible ($288 estimated value of goods and services), or waive all benefits.
Benefactor Circle — $10,000/year
Your gift enables the Arts Initiative to commission a recurring monthly poetry open mic for the public combined with a workshop to open each session. This will champion and educate aspiring writers and newcomers to poetry, and create a space that builds community, improves mental health, and introduces emerging and established writers to new audiences.
You can request if you’d like the program to be for all ages and backgrounds or the LGBTQ+ community specifically.
All Patron Circle benefits, plus:
A meeting with emerging poets whose lives you’ve changed, in person or by zoom
A complimentary custom portrait poem session culminating in a poem about you, printed on archival paper and framed
$9,462 tax-deductible ($538 estimated value of goods and services), or waive all benefits.
Visionary Circle — $50,000/year
Your gift enables the Arts Initiative to commission public arts programming, including a new works in vacant spaces and an opening for our artists.
All Patron and Benefactor Circle benefits, plus:
a work of art from one of our featured artists
In person or virtual. A live in person or video walk-through on install day, studio visit, and an artist’s walk filmed or streamed. (Travel for in person at donor’s expense.)
A complimentary commemoration from the install, such as a limited-run art book of the series after it closes, with your name credited in the book
$47,000 tax-deductible ($3000 estimated value of goods and services), or waive all benefits.