This Little Light of Mine

If you are an individual artist or a fearless leader struggling to find that almighty dollar, you may have noticed that you're going to need some help.

Here's some!

The renowned dance company Urban Bush Women, which is dedicated to facilitating the use of art as a means for encouraging social responsibility and civic engagement, offers Getting REAL about Fundraising by Cathy Draine. This snappy guide was originally developed to help individual artists raise the money they needed to attend the Urban Bush Women Summer Institute.

The acronym defined:

Researching – knowing what funding is out there.

Evaluating – deciding if the funding is right for you.

Asking – requesting the funding you need in a way that favors you getting it.

Listening – hearing the response you are given and responding accordingly.

I skimmed through while listening to my role model and hero Nina Simone who is as real as you can get without bursting into flame.

Getting R.E.A.L. about Fundraising (PDF)


Nina Simone!!!

We Do the Work

The AFL-CIO represents America's Labor movement, which is not something I'd brag about.

Anyhow, they say that Federal and state laws guarantee people the right to form unions and that "eligible employees have the right to express their views on unions, to talk with their co-workers about their interest in forming a union, to wear union buttons, to attend union meetings and in many other ways to exercise their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and freedom of association."

The key word for part-time TAs and freelancers is probably ELIGIBLE...or maybe BUTTONS. 

Also: Nina (Possibly NSFW. She cusses right at the end.)

War is over, if you want it

Turn, turn, turn.

Nina

Judy

Pete

The Byrds

Dolly

News On Purpose

Twitter is a free social networking service that lets people communicate through the exchange of short messages. You register in 15 seconds and adjust the privacy controls to your liking. You can use it on the web or on your phone.

It's whacky and, as I mentioned way back, possibly useful for something related to what we do but I'm not sure yet. In the meantime, I'm posting ephemera related to the field.

I read in the NYTIMES paper online that actual journalism is dead anyway.

Come see!

Plus: Nina Simone