Building your brand online and offline

Talking about your personal brand, your branded presence, whether you’re on-brand or off, if you know your brand identity- it all starts to sound pretentious and pointless. Even worse, it sounds overtly commercial. That’s because sometime between the 80s and the 90s brands became synonymous with logos and those logos were usually big and brash.

Australian Cultural Fund Summer Roadshow 2019

The ACF is back on the road this Summer, with a series of free events in Adelaide and Sydney designed for artists and arts organisations to make the most of our fundraising platform.

Receiving a grant on the ACF

Many Trusts and Foundations can only issue grants to organisations with Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) and Tax Concession Charity (TCC) status. Individuals cannot have these statuses, and if you are an organisation you might be in the process of setting this up, or not yet eligible. This is where the ACF can help!

Our top 5 resources from 2018

It’s that time of the year again. Time to relax, rejuvenate and read! Here are the top five most-read resources by you, our ACF community.

Our fastest million dollars raised for arts and culture

Since July 2018, the ACF has received over $1 million in pledged donations. This has been our fastest ever one million dollars — raised in just four months. To celebrate this milestone we contacted the donor who helped us achieve this milestone and the artist they chose to donate to.

Jonathan Zwartz | Where is he now?

Jonathan Zwartz is a renowned Australian jazz musician who has used the ACF to fundraise for his music career. He was nominated for the 2013 ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album for the album The Remembering & Forgetting of the Air and recently won a 2018 ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album, Animarum. He joins us in a new ACF series where we ask ACF alumni, where are they now?

Australian Cultural Fund Roadshow 2018

The ACF is hitting the road this Spring, with a series of free events across four cities, designed for artists and arts organisations to make the most of our fundraising platform.

12 tips for artists from ACF artists

There’s no better advice than from someone who has been in your shoes. Here are our top 12 tips from ACF artists and arts initiatives.

12 tips for artists from ACF donors

Supporters of the ACF share advice for artists and their philosophy towards donating to the arts.

10 Ways to Say Thank You

If you have ever been thanked for something you did to help someone else, you’ll know just how important a thank you can be. If someone has supported your project, they’ll have done it with reason.
Here are a few ways you can say a meaningful thank you.