Understanding Taxes for Artists: Session 1
Whether you’re getting grants, selling or performing art privately and/or self employed you still have to file taxes. But what are the best filing options for your individual situation? With over 20 years experience working with artists and art foundations, Walter Moyer of the Bottom Line Financial Services will offer advice, handouts and help explain some of the more confusing tax subjects for artists (like what the IRS considers and hobby and what it considers a profession) what income must be claimed and what expenses are allowable.
All attendees will receive a discount coupon to use Wally's services. Additionally, attendees who are Leeway grant recipients will receive a coupon for a free 15-minutes individual session with Wally.
About Wally Moyer
Walter “Wally” Moyer holds a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration from LaSalle University and has owned and operated his tax accounting firm since 1987. He has taught classes and workshops in personal taxes, accounting, bookkeeping and small business planning for The William Way Center, LaSalle University Non Profit Center, The Mount Airy Learning Tree, The Leeway Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Court Reporters Association
This workshop is being offered at multiple times. Please click here for additional options.
This workshop is being offered at multiple times. You may only sign up for one session. The information presented in each will be identical. Registration is required to attend this workshop.
Plotting the Future of Cultural Journalism - Feb. 20
How have the challenges faced by daily newspapers and traditional media outlets affected local coverage of arts and culture? Where are consumers going to make decisions on how to spend their cultural dollars? Is there a shift away from qualified criticism and how does that affect artistic product?
Join us for a speaker event and panel discussion featuring Douglas McLennan of Arts Journal and the National Arts Journalism Program, Bill Marimow of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Chris Satullo of WHYY and NewsWorks.org, Megan Wendell of Canary Promotion and Meredith Broussard of the University of Pennsylvania and Hidden City Philadelphia to discuss how cultural journalism has changed in recent years and what the future may hold for the field.
Featured Speaker:
Douglas McLennan – Founder and Editor of ArtsJournal.com, Acting Director of the National Arts Journalism Program
Panelists:
Bill Marimow – Editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer
Chris Satullo – Executive Director of News and Civic Dialogue at WHYY
Meredith Broussard – Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and 2012 USC-Getty Arts Journalism Fellow
Megan Wendell – Founder and President of Canary Promotion
Moderator:
Tom Kaiden – President, Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
Event Agenda:
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. – Breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.– Welcome and Featured Speaker
10:00 - 10:45 a.m.– Panel Discussion
10:45 - 11:15 a.m.– Audience Questions
11:15 - 12:00 p.m.– Networking
Breakfast and coffee will be provided.
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This program is part of the Cultural Alliance’s research initiative, Creating Change, and is supported by a grant from the William Penn Foundation. |
Data-Driven Donor Management - Feb 13
Leveraging Recency & Frequency Effects in Donation Behavior
with Peter Fader, co-director of the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative and the Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor of Marketing, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
No two donors are alike. As professional fundraisers, our success hinges on understanding what makes each individual donor unique and identifying those most likely to support our organizations’ mission and operations. However, there are critical yet easily overlooked behavioral differences among your donors that once identified will help you be more successful in your fundraising goals. By using the ageless “Recency, Frequency, Monetary Value” rubric, you can make the necessary distinctions to be more effective.
Join us for this dynamic session on data-based donor management with Peter Fader and learn how you can make distinctions among your donors based on the information already available to you. Development staff at organizations of all sizes will learn how to use their existing data to improve on their fundraising strategies. Space is limited, register online at eventbrite.com
This event is presented by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and the Association of Fundraising Professionals – Greater Philadelphia Chapter.
Peter S. Fader is the Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His expertise centers around the analysis of behavioral data to understand and forecast customer shopping/purchasing activities. He works with firms from a wide range of industries, such as consumer packaged goods, interactive media, financial services, retailing, and pharmaceuticals. Managerial applications focus on topics such as customer relationship management, lifetime value of the customer, and sales forecasting for new products. Much of his research highlights the consistent (but often surprising) behavioral patterns that exist across these industries and other seemingly different domains.
What Great Boards Do At Their Board Meetings - Feb. 21
Keep in mind: Board meetings are the core of corporate governance. Designing them. Ensuring adequate preparation. And making sure you talk about the right stuff the right way. Staff leads the process of good governance and great board meetings. And leadership staff needs a working knowledge of boards and corporate governance. (It's nice to have a couple of board members who are somewhat knowledgeable, too. But beware! Board service does not, by itself, make them competent in governance.) Join this webinar. You'll learn key concepts and proven strategies. And you'll receive a great handout to use back home.
At the conclusion of this session, participants will:
- Be aware of the key concepts of corporate governance.
- Understand the importance of the board meeting.
- Recognize key components of good board meetings.
- Fundraisers, executive directors, and other staff who work with board members in committee and board work
- Volunteers who serve on or aspire to serve on boards
- Level of experience doesn't matter that much: I've seen far too many boards - even the supposedly sophisticated ones with highly experienced staff - who don't really understand governance…Or choose not to do it well through board meetings.