The Arts & Business Council of New York (ABC/NY) has been serving the business community for more than 40 years. We forge creative partnerships with the arts, helping your business to engage and inspire your employees and clients, providing them with enriching experiences, and fulfilling your community relations goals.  ABC/NY offers you connections to over 200 New York City arts organizations—music, dance, and theatre companies, museums, arts education; of every size and in every borough.

Read more about what ABC/NY can do for business.

Membership
A corporate membership engages your employees and clients in the New York arts community.  Benefits include volunteer opportunities, training for arts board service, networking, and benchmarking.  If your company is interested in furthering its strategic philanthropy, community relations, or economic development goals, then an ABC/NY membership can maximize the effectiveness of your support of the arts.  (Note: your membership can also be expanded to the national level, serving employees and clients across the USA.  And coming soon: small business memberships and creative industry memberships.)

Volunteerism
Want to volunteer?  If you are a business professional with a passion for the arts, or a company seeking to involve your employees in the arts, then ABC/NY can match you with fulfilling opportunities to lend time and expertise to New York’s cultural community. 

Professional Development
Business expertise in marketing, finance, strategic planning, technology, and other areas is critical to the success of nonprofit arts organizations.  They need you.  Our volunteer consultants also develop and enhance their own skills, portfolios, and contacts.  Is your company committed to building the capacity of the nonprofit arts sector—and of its own employees?  Then ABC/NY can help develop resources within the community-at-large.

Leadership Development
The same skills that make an effective business manager also make an effective arts manager—and an effective nonprofit board leader.  Help mentor and train the next generation of arts leaders, through ABC/NY’s career development program for college students and institute for mid-career arts staff.  Become one of the next generation of volunteer leaders in New York’s arts community.

Economic Development
Arts and cultural heritage programs attract new visitors to New York, create job opportunities, and stimulate local economic growth.  ABC/NY can help you use cultural resources to promote your own business—in travel, hotel, restaurant, retail, and/or entertainment.  We can also help you achieve your goals in general economic development for your neighborhood, town, city, and/or county in New York.  Learn how we are already helping these partnerships succeed across the State.