Registration deadline: February 22, 2011
Application deadline: April 1, 2011

This category offers support to organizations that provide professional services to music organizations, artists, and research facilities. Such services may include, but are not limited to, technical assistance in administrative areas, projects that utilize technology, booking and promotional services, and concert and artist management. Support is also available for publications that specifically benefit the professional music field or its audience.

Prerequisite

The organization must have a paid administrator.

Application Instructions

Application Narrative Questions

Artistic/Programmatic

1. Program Summary
Briefly summarize the services your program provides, highlighting new or expanded activities.

2. Delivery
Describe the organization's technical, administrative, and information capacity to deliver the service.

Managerial/Fiscal

3. Project Staff
Summarize the roles and credentials of the staff, advisors and consultants providing the service.

4. Finances
Describe plans, projects and activities for meeting current and future expenses of this project.

5. Evaluation
Describe your methods for ongoing assessment and evaluation.

Service to the Public

6. Audience
Describe the audience for this service, in terms of users and level of activity. Summarize the selection process, if one is required for participation in the service. If you are a national service organization, state the percentages of service delivered in New York State and give the number of New York State constituents served annually.

7. Marketing
How will you reach your target market for this service?

Support Materials

8. Support Materials
Please list all of the support materials and/or work samples you are submitting. These materials are critical to your application's assessment.

Support Material

Support materials must be postmarked, hand-delivered or made available online by the deadline. Please direct them to your appropriate contact at: NYSCA, 175 Varick Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10014, or bdanne@nysca.org or rputnam@nysca.org.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Refer to the Instructions for Work Samples and Support Materials prior to submission.

NYSCA encourages the submission of Web-based Work Samples and Support Material whenever possible.

1. Representative samples of print materials relevant to the request.