The National Guild offers a host of practical resources on management, governance, fund development and marketing. A Membership Directory, both on-line and in print format, provides detailed information on each member school, and periodic surveys provide benchmarks against which schools can measure their own performance.
• Creativity Matters: The Arts and Aging Toolkit
Developed in partnership with the National Center for Creative Aging and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, the Toolkit offers the arts and aging fields detailed advice on the design, implementation and evaluation of professionally-led participatory arts programs for older adults.
• Guild Membership Directory – 2007-2008
This is the primary networking resource for the community arts education field. The 2007-08 Directory includes profiles of our member organizations indexed by state and displine, and detailed information on the National Guild's history, membership benefits, leadership and staff.
• Profiles in Excellence: Case Studies of Exemplary Arts Education Partnerships
A supplement to Partners in Excellence
This monograph describes three exemplary public school/community school partnerships: those led by Henry Street Settlement/Abrons Art Center in New York (theater), the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia (visual arts), and MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis (music).
• Partners in Excellence: A Guide to Commu-nity School of the Arts/Public School Partner-ships from Inspiration to Implementation
Published in 2005, this handbook covers the reasons to partner, planning and budgeting, fundraising and advocacy, content creation, professional development, evaluation and assessment. Worksheets and an annotated bibliography are provided.
• Survey of Member Schools Report: Academic Year 2005-2006 Ready answers to common questions community arts school leaders have: What do schools pay their administrators and faculty? What tuition fees are standard for lessons/classes? How much financial aid do they offer? How much of schools' revenue is earned vs. contributed? And much more.
See a sample table from this book
• Ten Steps toward Starting a Community School of the Arts This thoughtful and informative publication is full of facts and advice guiding community leaders, board and staff members, teaching artists, and aspiring community school directors through the process of launching a successful community school of the arts.
• Creative Communities Initiative Summary Report This Initiative brought high-quality arts instruction to underserved
children and youth through partnerships between community schools of the
arts and public housing communities.
• Putting Your House in Order: Job Descrip-tions that Work This booklet explains how to clarify the job descriptions at your school, energize your staff and faculty, and reach new organizational heights.
• Sounds of Reform by Derek Vaillant
A must read for anyone with an interest in music as a tool for social change as well as the historic background from which community schools of the arts arose.
• Dachau Song by Paul Cummins
The amazing life of Herbert Zipper, the first Executive Director of the Guild, is captured in this 1992 publication. The Austrian conductor and composer was a survivor of the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps.
The Resource Library will contain a host of practical resources on management, governance, fund development and marketing. (Currently under construction)
