The Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations is New York's primary service association for community-based arts and cultural organizations. The Alliance provides the leadership, vision, services and resources necessary for the success of community cultural organizations. The New York State Arts and Cultural Coalition is the Alliance program which monitors, informs and mobilizes the field on statewide and national issues affecting the arts and assists local arts agencies in building community support and developing effective grassroots advocacy education and public policy. Arts Wire Arts Wire is a on-line network for the arts community and a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts. Arts Wire provides current news and discussion of arts-related issues, as well as listings of grants, exhibition opportunities, and jobs.
Membership includes web space, with on-line resources to help create and maintain the site.
The Community Arts Partnership is an arts services agency providing programs and services for artists and arts organizations in Tompkins County, New York, where New York Folklore Society is located. The Long Island Arts Council at Freeport, founded in 1974, is the largest independent arts council in Nassau County. Each year, the Arts Council sponsors a broad spectrum of programs and events, including a national juried photography show, summer teen musical theatre workshop, arts education programs, craft festivals, concerts, seminars, and lectures. The Arts Council also serves as the administrative agency for the Nassau Community Regrant Program for the Arts, a program which provides cultural grants throughout Nassau County. It provides funding both for programming designed to reinforce traditions within the communities where they originate and for activities directed to general audiences involving traditional arts of New York State and other parts of the world.