Our Community Partners

The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their art form, while being inclusive and accessible. We keep ticket prices affordable, expanding the creation and attendance of the arts for a broad and diverse community.

Founded in 2003, The Tank champions emerging artists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas and forms of expression working across all disciplines, including theater, comedy, dance, film, music, puppetry, and storytelling. From the company’s two-theater home on 36th Street, The Tank serves over 2,500 artists every year, presents over 1,000 performances, and welcomes 36,000 audience members annually. The company fully produces a curated season of 13-18 theatrical World or New York premieres each season.

Recent work includes hit productions of Midnight Coleslaw Tales from Beyond the Closet!!! by Joey Merlo (2024), Invasive Species by Maia Novi (2023), Joan of Arc in a Supermarket in California by Chloe Xtina (2023), Mahinerator by Jerry Lieblich (2023), New York Times Critics’ Picks Simon and His Shoes (2022), Taxilandia (2021, 2023 OBIE Award), OPEN by Crystal Skillman (2019), Red Emma & The Mad Monk by Alexis Roblan (2018), and The Offending Gesture by Mac Wellman (2016); as well as Drama Desk Award-nominated productions The Hunger Artist (2018), The Paper Hat Game (2017), the ephemera trilogy (2017), Ada/Ava (2016) and youarenowhere (2016).

Learn more at thetanknyc.org.

Social Impact Commons is the country’s first field and capacity builder for the fiscal sponsorship, or commons management community. We support the creation and development of fiscal sponsors, from emerging to established, through offering direct advisory support, tools, discount technologies, and templates for sound operations. Our work centers commoning practices in the interest of advancing equity, power sharing, and intentional community building. We are home to a growing community of practice and learning of over seventy member fiscal sponsors, supporting a diversity of charitable missions. Beyond our direct work with members, we engage in ongoing research and advocacy for the field as a whole.

Learn more at socialimpactcommons.org.

Tribeworks is a cooperatively-owned and artist-run business committed to providing employment support for creative workers. We know that freelancers have trouble managing unpredictable income, accessing health insurance, and feeling protected as workers. By converting 1099 income into W2 employment, our goal is for artists and their organizations to stay focused on their craft while receiving employment benefits and growing within our thriving online and in person communities. After the success of partnering with Creatives Rebuild New York on an innovative guaranteed income Artist Employment Program, Tribeworks is looking forward to supporting more creative workers across the US!

Learn more at tribeworks.io.

RISE (Representation, Inclusion, & Support for Employment) Theatre seeks to build a more equitable and inclusive theatre industry by centralizing DEIA tools and resources through a network of partners and a national personnel directory that focuses on folks from underrepresented backgrounds, including but not limited to people of color, women, trans, nonbinary, deaf, and disabled theatre professionals.

Learn more at risetheatre.org.

IndieSpace celebrates and centers independent theater-making in New York City. We provide radically transparent, responsive and equity-focused funding, real estate programs, professional development, and advocacy to individual artists, theater companies, and indie venues. IndieSpace will strengthen the indie theater community by disrupting ongoing displacement, democratizing power, demanding social and financial equity, and raising an unwavering voice that is truly indie.

Learn more at indiespace.org.

We Make Movies is redefining what it means to be a film studio. We are a film collective with a thriving worldwide community and a production company that helps bring hundreds of projects to life each year. WMM connects filmmakers and content creators with useful resources like access to affordable production insurance, discounts on gear rentals, help with permitting and contracts, free weekly labs to workshop your script or your rough cut, post production services, and even an international film festival WMMINTL (wmmintlfilmfest.com). Let’s make the movie YOU want to see. 

Learn more at wemakemovies.org.

Megilla is a supremely user-friendly video-software platform intentionally designed to help busy teams proactively collect authentic, on-brand user-generated content (UGC) at scale. Megilla is web-based and white-label, which provides organizations a streamlined, affordable tech-tool for community engagement, sales, social media, data collection & much more. All video submissions contain legal consent. Megilla offers significant discounts to all nonprofits.

Learn more at megilla.com.