Resources
Tools of the Trades emphasizes access to marketing, accounting, sales, legal, and design professionals while hearing from peers who are sustaining successful business practices. Below is a sample list of our collaborators who help grow and sustain craft businesses through their work.
Check out the schedule for a complete list!
CERF+
The Craft Emergency Relief Fund was started by artists for artists in the craft community as a grassroots mutual aid effort in 1985 and has since emerged as the leading nonprofit organization that uniquely focuses on safeguarding artists’ livelihoods nationwide.
Creative Business Accelerator
The CBA empowers creative businesses to contribute more actively to equitable economic growth. Strong and successful creative businesses emerge as effective allies in Bridgeway’s efforts to make western Pennsylvania a thriving region for all.
https://www.bridgewaycapital.org/creative-business-accelerator/
The Enterprise Center
The Enterprise Center offers a range of educational programs as well as advises and delivers on transformative economic development connected to minority business growth cycles and community wealth-building initiatives.
Made in Baltimore
Made in Baltimore supports makers and manufacturers in Baltimore City, connecting businesses to the tools they need to grow, create jobs, and strengthen our local economy.
Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
PVLA is a non-profit legal services organization through which lawyers assist artists and cultural organizations throughout the greater Philadelphia area via legal representation, publications, advocacy, education and counseling.
Sunlight Tax School
Hannah is a tax expert who specializes in working with creative people and their businesses. Though she’s worked at a couple “buttoned-up” tax firms in New York, she loves bringing her tax skills to the aid of the creative world.
Temple University’s SBDC
Temple University’s Small Business Development Center (SBDC) of the Fox School of Business has served Philadelphia and the surrounding communities since 1983, devoted to their mission of helping small businesses grow and succeed.
The Clay Studio
The Clay Studio inspires curiosity and discovery around the art and craft of clay, drawing together students, artists, and an engaged public into a welcoming community.
WCNP Global Craft Market
Global Craft Market is a collective of local immigrant artists who share their hand-made, fair traded crafts to celebrate and sustain craft making traditions and artisans from around the world that grew out of the Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians (WCNP).