General Resources

Discover something helpful in this growing list of resources and ideas for all your creative needs. Still can’t find it? Let us know and we’ll see if we can track something else down. (For information on California AB5, please go to the Creative Sonoma AB5 Info Page.

LOCAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS

American Institute of Architects Redwood Empire Chapter www.aiare.org
Center for Volunteer and Nonprofit Leadership https://cvnl.org/
Napa Sonoma Small Business Development Center www.napasonomasbdc.org
North Bay Made www.northbaymade.org/
SCORE North Coast www.northcoast.score.org
Sonoma County Economic Development Board www.sonomaedb.org
Sonoma County Film Office www.sonomaedb.org/Current-Projects/Film-Office/
Sonoma County Job Link www.sonomawib.org
Sonoma County Literary Update www.socolitupdate.com
Sonoma County Tourism www.sonomacounty.com
Volunteer Center of Sonoma County www.volunteernow.org

REGIONAL AND NATIONAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS

The Actors Fund www.actorsfund.org
Alliance for California Traditional Arts www.actaonline.org
Americans for the Arts www.americansforthearts.org
ArtPlace America www.artplaceamerica.org
Arts Administrators of Color Network www.aacnetwork.org
Arts Education Partnership www.aep-arts.org
ArtSpan www.artspan.org
Association of Clay and Glass Artists of California acgaweb.com
Bay Area Performing Arts Spaces bayareaspaces.org
California Arts Council www.cac.ca.gov
California Association of Museums www.calmuseums.org
California Association of Nonprofits www.calnonprofits.org
California Dance Education Association cdeadance.org
California Lawyers for the Arts www.calawyersforthearts.org
Californians for the Arts www.californiansforthearts.org
Center for Cultural Innovation www.cciarts.org
CompassPoint Nonprofit Services www.compasspoint.org
createCA www.createca.net
Creative Capital www.creative-capital.org
Dancers’ Group http://dancersgroup.org/
Fractured Atlas www.fracturedatlas.org
MusiCares www.grammy.org/musicares
National Arts Marketing Project https://www.americansforthearts.org/by-topic/arts-marketingwww.artsmarketing.org
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies www.nasaa-arts.org
National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures nalac.org
National Guild for Community Arts Education www.nationalguild.org
National Endowment for the Arts www.arts.gov
National Endowment for the Humanities www.neh.gov
Studio Protector www.studioprector.org
Teaching Artists Guild https://teachingartists.com/
The Art Career Project www.theartcareerproject.com
West Coast Songwriters www.westcoastsongwriters.org
Western Museums Association www.westmuse.org

FUNDERS AND FUNDING SERVICES

A selection of foundations and organizations that give grants in Sonoma County, or that provide essential funding services.

Alliance for California Traditional Arts www.actaonline.org
Arts Loan Fund www.artsloanfund.org
California Arts Council www.arts.ca.gov/grants
Center for Cultural Innovation www.cciarts.org
Community Foundation Sonoma County www.sonomacf.org
Creative Work Fund www.creativeworkfund.org
Fleishhacker Foundation www.fleishhackerfoundation.org
Foundation Center (now known as Candid) www.candid.org
The James Irvine Foundation www.irvine.org
Northern California Grantmakers www.ncg.org
Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation www.gerbode.org
Walter and Elise Haas Fund www.haassr.org
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation www.hewlett.org
Zellerbach Family Foundation zff.org

PROMOTIONS AND VENUES

List your events, or find something to do, see or experience. Creative Sonoma manages our own Creative Calendar, and also suggests use of these excellent online calendars in our County, all of which allow free posting of your events and workshops.