Are you an entertainment professional interested in increasing your financial knowledge and skills? Sign up for our free workshops to learn tools and strategies to support your lifelong financial health and stability.
Please register or log in to our Entertainment Community Fund Portal to access our workshops, programs and services. Our portal is designed to cater to your individual needs and interests, offering access to a wide range of resources and support—all with the guidance and understanding of what it takes to build a life and career in the arts.
- Intro to Financial Wellness
A single-session, interactive workshop that seeks to engage, educate and empower performing arts professionals about the role of money in their lives. Participants are invited to share and discuss their experiences and goals, and will learn tools and strategies for getting financially organized and finding their financial starting point.
- Investing Basics 1 | Building a Balanced Portfolio
Learn the elements of a sound financial plan, including assessing your comfort level with risk, the basics of different types of investments and ideas for creating a portfolio with limited and fluctuating income.
- Investing Basics 2 | Later-Life Re$ources
Explore and begin to shore up the pieces that comprise your later-life financial resources as a creative professional, including individual retirement accounts, social security income and Union pensions.
- Investing Basics 3 | Beyond the Basics
Open only to those who have completed Investing Basics 1 and/or Investing Basics 2. Pros, cons and tips involving the three “silos” of investing (regular investments, later-life resources and debt control).
- Managing Debt & Credit
This workshop aims to help you maintain financial health and well-being when dealing with the challenges of managing debt as a creative professional.
- Student Loan Strategies for Creative Professionals
Updates on the latest developments affecting the federal student loan system, as well as an overview of student loan repayment, forgiveness and discharge programs.
- Tax Prep for Creative Professionals
A practical, informative workshop on tax strategies geared toward creative professionals.
Self-Guided Learning
- Tax Toolbox
Our on-demand video series contains key insights and strategies to help you prepare for and navigate tax season—and beyond! Covering topics ranging from filing options and deductions to recordkeeping, this new series consists of more than 20 short videos, available to watch any time, in any order.