Joan Monk
NYS Cultural Interests Director

Funding the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts - a federal agency promoting lifelong arts education, and improving access to the arts for all citizens.

New York State Council of the Arts - a state funding agency that provides support for activities of nonprofit arts and cultural organizations in NYS.

Alliance/Arts Action for NY - a new lobbying organization formed to advance the statewide and national arts agendas.

Women's History Month

National Women's History Project - an educational nonprofit organization whose mission is to recognize and celebrate the diverse and historic accomplishments of women by providing information and educational materials and programs

Thomson Gale - a collection of activities and information

Infoplease.com - a searchable knowledge base

Native American

The Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne - part of the Greater Mohawk Nation who presently live on a number of territories stretching along the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers, by Lake Ontario and beyond, all the way to Brantford, Ontario, Canada.

The Seneca Nation of Indians - one of the six tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy who occupy aboriginal lands in New York State set aside by the Treaty of Canandaigua of 1794.

National Women's History Project (NWHP) - provides suggested reading materials on and by Native Americans and Hawaiians

Hispanic and Latino

ASPIRA - empowering the Puerto Rican and Latino community through advocacy and the education and leadership development of its youth.

LatinWorld - a community of information and resources about Latin America, its wonders, and its people.

Hispanic Heritage Month Events - provides links to websites that offer background information on ways to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

National Women's History Project (NWHP) - provides suggested reading materials on and by Hispanic Americans

African American

Universal Black Pages (UBP) - a complete and comprehensive listing of African diaspora related sites

Everything Black - a search engine for "everything black" including art, culture, businesses and organizations

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - the oldest, largest and strongest Civil Rights Organization in the United States

The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences - profiles of African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering

Uncrowned Queens Project - provides provides an extensive examination of the role that the African American community played and an historical overview and photos of the exhibits that purported to represent Africans and African-Americans at the Pan

American Exposition of 1901

National Women's History Project (NWHP) - provides suggested reading materials on and by African Americans

Asian American

National Women's History Project (NWHP) - provides suggested reading materials on and by Asian Americans

Center for Educational Telecommunications (CET) - a not-for-profit organization devoted to producing, publishing and consulting in the area of multiculturalism, with a special interest in Asian and Asian American concerns.

Infoplease.com - a searchable knowledge base

Americans With Disabilities

American Association of People with Disabilities
1819 H Street, NW, Suite 330, Washington, D.C. 20006,
800.840.8844 (voice/TTY), 202.457.0473 (fax), contact by e-mail