ASI will award 32 Give for Greatness grants—up from 25 in 2018—of $1,000 each to 32 arts and cultural nonprofit organizations based in Erie, Niagara, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, and Allegany counties. The 32 organizations were selected from 78 total applications by a panel of local leaders in the arts and cultural sector. Recipients 1891 Fredonia Opera [...]
Saturday, March 9, 2019 1pm-5:30pm at the Tralf Music Hall Tickets now on sale! The 8th Annual Lawyers for the Arts Event is a time when lawyers from the region trade in their briefcases and suits for guitars, drum kits, and microphones all in support of the Western New York arts and cultural community. $25 [...]
Arts Services Initiative of Western New York, Inc. (ASI) announced the 25 cultural organizations receiving 2018 Give for Greatness grants.  The awardees were chosen from 61 applicants across five counties, and represent a cross section of innovative small and emerging cultural groups across multiple disciplines.  Give for Greatness is a program of ASI. Art for Rural America [...]
Arts Services Initiative of Western New York, Inc. (ASI) announced the 35 cultural organizations receiving 2016 Give for Greatness grants.  The awardees were chosen from 78 applicants across five counties, and represent a cross section of innovative small and emerging cultural groups across multiple disciplines.  Give for Greatness is a program of ASI. • African American Center [...]
Call for applications for 2016 Give for Greatness general operating grants.  Up to thirty five (35) grants providing general operating support in the amount of $1,000 each will be distributed thanks to several fundraising initiatives throughout the year. To be eligible, an organization must meet all of the following criteria: Have 501c3 or NYS CHAR 500 status (current or pending) [...]
November 5, 2016 at Town Ballroom …we are gearing up now!!!  Enter your corporate band today and show’em who is boss! 9 bands from local corporations will take the stage to B-A-T-T-L-E.  Download and complete the registration form to be one of the nine bands!!!  Do you have what it takes to win??  CLICK HERE [...]
30 cultural organizations in 5 counties funded through program Arts Services Initiative of Western New York (ASI) announced the recipients of the 2015 "Give for Greatness" grants. Thirty grants providing general operating support in the amount of $1,000 each were awarded to cultural organizations across ASI's entire five-county service area thanks to several fundraising initiatives [...]
Give for Greatness, the local arts philanthropy founded by then-Artvoice publisher Jamie Moses in the wake of the 2011 cultural funding crisis, has named its latest round of grantees. The grants, administered by Arts Services Initiative, will be awarded in $1,000 allotments to these 30 organizations, chosen from 83 applicants… By Colin Dabkowski, Gusto Blog (The Buffalo News) [...]
Eight teams of business professionals will set aside their suits and ties in favor of guitars and microphones Saturday afternoon. It’s part of the region’s first Corporate Battle of the Bands, a fundraiser for Give for Greatness, a program of the Arts Services Initiative of Western New York (ASI). Tracey Drury, Reporter, Buffalo Business First [...]
Program features eight live bands in concert Inspired by events of its kind in other cities, the first "Battle of the Corporate Bands" in Buffalo will feature corporate sponsors and their competing bands of the most unlikely musicians - such as bankers, PR executives, accountants, lawyers, software engineers and others. The four-hour event will kick off at 2 p.m. [...]
