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COVID-19; Freelance Artist Resources

This list is specifically designed to serve freelance artists, and those interested in supporting the independent artist community. This includes, but is not limited to, actors, designers, producers, technicians, stage managers, musicians, composers, choreographers, visual artists, filmmakers, craft artists, teaching artists, dancers, writers & playwrights, photographers, etc... 

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Census 2010: Resources and Information

New from Nonprofits Count

With only 35 days to go until April 1st, opportunities to access Census resources for nonprofits abound online. Some initiatives, like Nonprofits Count, offer an online form to order free materials designed to encourage participation of undercounted communities in the 2010 Census. Other groups make resources available for download or in interactive online formats, like Ya Es Hora's guide to the census questionnaire.
The following is a list of the top resources from Nonprofits Count.
Webinars
Nonprofits Count will be continuing its popular webinar series in March. We are still accepting registrations for tomorrow's webinar, "Countdown to the 2010 Census," a discussion of outreach strategies and effective messaging for reaching nonprofits' clients and constituents on the 2010 Census. The webinar will be hosted by Terri Ann Lowenthal of the Census Project and Bridgette Rongitsch, National Director of NVEN. To register, click here.

New Fact Sheets in Online Toolkit
Nonprofits Count is pleased to announce the addition of a new fact sheet series, "About the Census," to our online toolkit. Available in both English and Spanish, the "About the Census" one-page series focus on the issues around counting various constituency groups. Titles include "Counting Children," "Counting College Students," "Counting Group Quarters" and more. The fact sheets are in full color and are available for download or viewing here.

Posters and buttons
NVEN is pleased to make available two new posters promoting the 2010 Census. Hang one or both of these posters in your nonprofit's lobby, client intake area, or anywhere else constituents and community members will see them. To order a free poster, click here.
Constituency-based resources for Census 2010
The following organizations have launched constituency-specific resources, websites or campaigns on encouraging participation in Census 2010.
Ya Es Hora- The Hagase Contar website offers bilingual information on filling out the 2010 questionnaire, as well as a set of FAQs. Spanish-language posters are also available - see order form here.
Voto Latino - The "Be Counted" campaign from Voto Latino, co-founded by actress Rosario Dawson, offers site visitors a download of 25 free songs from top artists for pledging to participate in the 2010 Census, as well as a map of America showing locations and quotes from those who've already pledged, along with information on the Census form and operation itself.
NAACP- The "Yes We Count" campaign website hosts fact sheets and outreach resources, and allows you to sign up for mobile updates. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has also launched their own Census campaign, "Count on Change 2010," which gives information on what the census is, why participation in the census is vital and how you can help.
Census Bureau - The 2010 Census website includes full toolkits for constituency-based organizations of multimedia and drop-in articles. Check out their interactive "Stories of America" feature, which highlights interviews with real Americans across the country.
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The NHPD announced that they will start using the webservice nixle (http://www.nixle.com/) to send crime alerts. However, it seems like you can also sign up to the service as a non-profit and define a geographical area and people can sign up to that as a 'watch area' and get email events for alerts (events, meetings, etc.) in that area.

Here's a snip from the website:

Nixle is a Community Information Service dedicated to helping you stay connected to the information that matters most to you, depending on your physical location. You stay connected to your local police
department, your children’s schools, your local community agencies and
organizations, and the important information from other locations
throughout the country that are relevant to you. Our service is built
on the most secure, reliable, and high-speed distribution platform,
ensuring that you receive trusted and immediate, geographically
relevant information. Information is immediately available over your
cell phone by text message, by email, and over the web. Your account
can be customized so you receive the information that matters most to
you. Whether it is where you live, work, or have friends or family
throughout the country, the information is immediately available to you
over your mobile phone, email and computer.

This might be a good way for residents to stay in updated with events that happen in their immediate neighborhood, so I thought I'd share this information.

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It has happen too many of us, you have a document -- picture(s) or a spreadsheet you would like to share over email and come to find out that the file(s) are too big and can not be emailed or they can not be downloading because of the size of the file(s).

Two solutions:

http://www.yousendit.com/ - Send, receive & track files up to 2GigaBytes

http://docs.google.com allows you to share documents; they can be viewed and edited without downloading them. Documents can be made open to the world or just viewed by people you select.

Resources contribute by Christina Ciociola and Tricia Caldwell of The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven.

If you have a resource that you have found helpful post it. If enough people are interested we can start a group or a discussion just for useful resources for non-profits. Just let us know what YOU can contribute and what YOU need.

It sounds corny but it is true: there is a U in GNH CommUnity.

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