Benvenuti Arts

Solutions for the small and mighty. What this means is if you have a need, chances are, we have a solution.

Benvenuti Arts is a small and mighty team, just like yours, allowing us to keep our rates affordable and response time quick. Headed by Founder, Sarah Benvenuti, Benvenuti Arts partners bring together expertise in fundraising, management, producing, administration, marketing, sales, and more. Contact us for a free, 30 minute consultation to see for yourself.

10/10/2026

In observance of World Mental Health Day, we compiled a list of mental health support resources for arts professionals, from online support groups to financial assistance. See the list below. For detailed descriptions and links, go to our website: https://benvenutiarts.com/mental-health-resources-for-arts-professionals/

🔸Performing arts:
- Entertainment Community Fund's Supports Groups
- United Hospital Fund Guidebook
- Resource Guide for Theatre Artists by IndieSpace (NYC)
- Mental Health Grants for NYC-based indie performing artists by IndieSpace
- Financial assistance at NYU Langone's Harkness Center for Dance Injuries

🔸Music
- Porter's Call: support for touring recording artists whose artistic career is their main source of income
- Sweet Relief Musicians Fund – The Mental Health Fund
- SIMS Foundation (Austin, TX)

🔸 Nonprofit leaders:
Free mental health and wellness online trainings for nonprofit leaders by Nonprofitready.org: "Managing Stress and Mental Health on Your Team," "Understanding and Coping with Burnout," "Mindfulness for stress and trauma."

Do you know of a good resource that's missing? Share in the comments👇

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10/07/2026

Some visual arts grants for artists and arts organizations with November deadlines. Check it out if you still have some space in your grants calendar.

VIA Art Fund – Artistic Production: Project Support
⌛️Deadline: November 5 (letter of inquiry)
🎯Focus: newly commissioned works of visual art exhibited beyond museum walls, in the public realm, or in non-traditional exhibition environments. Grants are awarded to projects that best exemplify VIA’s three core values: Artistic Production, Thought Leadership, and Public Engagement.
💰 Awards range: $25,000 to $100,000.
📍Geographic area:
ℹ️ More information: https://viaartfund.org/apply/

Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation (Spring Round)
⌛️Deadline: November 10
🎯Focus: supporting organizations and programs where a relatively small amount of funding can make a big difference. The Foundation will consider requests to support museums, cultural and performing arts programs; schools and hospitals; educational, skills-training and other programs for youth, seniors, and persons with disabilities [...] and other community-based organizations and programs. Awards typically range from $1k to $20k.
💰 Awards range: $1,000 to $20,000.
ℹ️ More information: https://www.mvdreyfusfoundation.org/application-guidelines

Artadia Awards
⌛️Deadline: November 1
🎯Focus: providing financial support, exposure and recognition to artists. The awards are unrestricted, so artists can use the funds however they choose. Applicants must be contemporary visual artists, making artwork for presentation in a contemporary art context: museums, galleries, arts non-profits, the public art realm, etc. and should not be enrolled in an art-related degree program. See full eligibility criteria on the funder's website.
💰 Awards range: $15,000 (up to $25,000 for artists based in Los Angeles)
📍Geographic area: the October-November 2026 call is for artists based in Houston, TX.
ℹ️ More information: https://artadia.org/awards/

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09/16/2026

Grants accessible to artists and arts organizations with October deadlines and a focus on community impact. See details and source links below.

Junior League Of Washington – Innovation Grant

⌛️Deadline: October 9, 5 PM ET.
🎯Focus: new and/or pilot programs filling gaps in education, professional and/or financial development in the community. Preference is given to creative and data-driven solutions to unmet/under-met community needs.
📍Geographic area: Washington, DC.
ℹ️ More information: https://washington.jl.org/home/community/grants/

Communities of Color Nonprofit Stabilization Fund

⌛️Deadline: October 16, 5 PM ET.
🎯Focus: NYC-based, direct social service organizations that serve primarily (75%+) NYC residents, have experience in and are currently serving communities where 51%+ of the population are people of color, and have demonstrated a record of outreach. (Check technical eligibility criteria on the funder’s website).
📍Geographic area: New York City.
ℹ️ More information: https://www.ccnsfund.org/how-to-apply

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) – Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program for Visual and Multidisciplinary Artists 2027

⌛️Deadline: October 12, 11:59 PM ET.
🎯Focus: the program provides emerging artists born outside of the U.S. or in the U.S. territories with 1-on-1 career support, community, and exposure for their work. Applicants should be pursuing an artistic career in the U.S. within the past 1-10 years and be out of university studies during the program.
📍Geographic area: applicants must live in New York City or within commuting distance.
ℹ️ More information: https://www.nyfa.org/professional-development/immigrant-artist-mentoring-program/

09/15/2026

We extended the registration for the fall workshops! Sign in by September 21 to kick-start your end-of-year campaign planning or make your next grant-writing cycle easier and more effective.

♦️ End-of-Year Campaign Planning Seminar (October 5)
The time to prepare for your end-of-year donor outreach is now. Let us help you set up a chaos-free campaign. Under the direct support of our consultant, you will:
- Develop a strategy for managing your donor lists and prospecting.
- Complete a campaign publications calendar.
- Draft the launch language.

♦️ Boilerplate Writing Sessions (September 29, October 6 and 20)
If you are piecing together scattered copy fragments for every new grant application, we can fix it.
During the three group sessions and two individual consultations, you will build a system to keep your fundraising language organized, up to date, and readily usable.

[arts nonprofits consulting, fundraising strategy, individual fundraising, workshops for arts organizations]

09/04/2026

Registration for our fall workshops is still open! This is a great chance to upgrade your fundraising strategy and tools with professional support.

♦️ End-of-Year Campaign Planning Seminar (October 5)
The time to prepare for your end-of-year donor outreach is now. Let us help you set up a chaos-free campaign. Under the direct support of our consultant, you will:
- Develop a strategy for managing your donor lists and prospecting.
- Complete a campaign publications calendar.
- Draft the launch language.

♦️ Boilerplate Writing Sessions (September 29, October 6 and 20)
If you are piecing together scattered copy fragments for every new grant application, we can fix it.During the three group sessions and two individual consultations, you will build a system to keep your fundraising language organized, up to date, and readily usable.

See more details about the curriculum and prices on our website benvenutiarts.com (link in bio).

[arts nonprofits consulting, fundraising strategy, individual fundraising, fundraising in the arts]

09/03/2026

Benvenuti Arts at the artist fair of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Edinburgh Festival Fringe! It was great to cross paths with our clients, IndieSpace IndieSpace , get to know artists from around the globe, and witness daring performances.

Our CEO, Sarah, is a regular at the festival. Here are some notes from her about the Ed Fringe experience: the best part of coming to the Fringe is meeting artists from around the world and getting to see the creative process in action. Sometimes it’s a comedian trying out new material, or an incredible musical that you never saw coming, or something weird and wild and hard to define. But it’s always memorable, and getting to hand out at the artists’ fair and meet the creators of the work was an amazing highlight this year.

09/02/2026

Before you give up on your end-of-year campaign, take a closer look at the system behind it. For arts organizations, stronger results often come from more intentional outreach: segmenting donors, personalizing messages, and using multiple communication channels beyond a general email blast.

Want support building your plan? Register for our upcoming End-of-Year Campaign Planning Workshop to boost your fundraising under our consultants’ guidance.

[fundraising in the arts, arts nonprofits, individual giving, leading arts organization]

08/25/2026

Imagine if you kept part of your everyday clothes in the bedroom, another part in the kitchen, and the rest in the basement. You would never do that with your clothes because it's uncomfortable, right? Why do it with your grant-writing language, then?

This is exactly what happens when you don't have a boilerplate. For every grant applicaiton (aka outfit), you go to one place to find info on the show you produced half a year ago, another place for your organisation's history, and the third place to copy and paste your financial narrative. A boilerplate is a wardrobe for your organization's language. Let's build you one.

08/19/2026

It doesn't need to be perfect. It needs to get the job done. This applies to donor relationship tracking, too. If your brain wants to quit every time when figuring out which donor needs to be thanked/re-engaged with/asked, your system doesn't get the job done. Some advice from us on how to fix it is in the video 📹.

P.S. If you want to get your system closer to perfection, though, we can get you there. Join our End-of-Year Campaign Seminar this October. By the way, you can register with 10% Early Bird discount through August 21.

08/13/2026

Never underestimate the power of the boilerplate.

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