TCG National Conference 2006 - Exhibitors
Business Affiliates
Participating Sponsors
Fisher Dachs Associates (FDA) is one of the world's leading theatre planning and design consultants. Current projects include new theatres in Washington, D.C. for the Shakespeare Theatre Company and the Arena Stage; a new three-theatre complex for The Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis; and renovation of the Broadway theatre known as Henry Miller's Theatre, along with numerous other projects. The firm has long been recognized for its role in helping to plan, design, or renovate some of the most significant and most imaginative performing arts spaces in North America.
Schweickert & Company has provided all types of insurance programs to the national performing arts community for the past 28 years. We currently have clients, including many TCG members, in over 30 states. Our programs are unique in that an organization can access them directly with Schweickert & Company or through their own local broker. The programs include General Liability, Property, Theatrical Property, Automobile, Workers Compensation, Directors & Officers/Employment Practices Liability, Group Life, Health, Disability, etc. We have a number of major insurance carriers writing the coverage for our programs. We strive for good service, competitive pricing and superior coverage.
Business Affiliates
AMS Planning & Research Corp. is a distinguished management consulting practice devoted exclusively to cultural development. The firm’s core business is to help guide the planning and development of arts facilities, and to assist in the formulation of strategic and long-range plans for arts organizations, programs and projects. Through its research practice, Audience Insight, LLC, AMS conducts market research on arts participation patterns across the U.S. and Canada, and has emerged as the leading provider of market intelligence to the industry.
Apollo Design Technology, Inc. As the leading manufacturer of custom gobos, Apollo offers stainless steel or glass patterns in any size. SuperResolution™ and ColourScenic™ glass gobos feature up to an amazing 20,000 dpi resolution. Hundreds of standard patterns can be viewed at www.internetapollo.com. Other quality lighting effects products offered include Smart Color™ scrollers, Smart Move™ rotators, Apollo Gel, dichroics, and more. Apollo is a respected supplier to the entertainment, corporate, and architectural markets.
Artistic Logistics is a cooperative of independent consultants who provide strategic planning, organizational development, project evaluation, and community cultural planning services to arts organizations in urban and rural areas throughout the U.S. Recent clients include Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Cornerstone Theater Company, New WORLD Theater, Sojourn Theatre, and the Atlanta Coalition of Performing Arts. Led by Lisa Mount and based in Sautee-Nacoochee, Georgia, Artistic Logistics offers a working relationship that is personal, participatory, artist-centered, egalitarian and fun. For more information, please contact lqmount@earthlink.net.
Arts Consulting Group, Inc.is the leading provider of hands-on interim management, executive search, fundraising, marketing, program & facilities planning, and organizational development services for the arts and culture industry. The firm has offices in Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington DC, with consultants located across the country to best serve the needs of our clients.
Blackbaud is the leading global provider of software and related services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations. More than 15,000 organizations use Blackbaud products and consulting services for fundraising, financial management, business intelligence, online constituent relationship management and ticketing. Blackbaud's solutions include The Raiser's Edge ® , The Financial Edge ™, Blackbaud NetCommunity™, The Information Edge™, The Patron Edge™, WealthPoint™ and ProspectPoint™, as well as a wide range of consulting and educational services.
Choice Ticketing Systems: The Power of Intelligence. Getting it done! Increasing ticket sales, patron contributions and sponsorship dollars to effectively meet revenue goals and maximize profitability – the ongoing challenge! Creatively managing priceless patron data to increase sales and contributions requires a system that is easy-to-use, powerful and can provide global access to your customer base. Enter Choice Ticketing Systems – a proven enterprise-wide entertainment technology solution. Choice provides a high-end integrated Ticketing, Fundraising, Membership and Volunteer Management solution with an internet credit card authorization process and an integrated “private label” internet ticketing solution. Visit Choice and discover our intelligent sales, marketing and fundraising solution for the entertainment industry.
IDC For over 30 years, IDC, the oldest and most widely known firm in telefundraising, has provided donor-centered fund-raising services for annual, capital, and endowment campaigns. IDC is pleased to have helped theatres nationwide to successfully wrap up their capital campaigns through our innovative and highly personalized PHONE/MAIL ® Program. With IDC, our clients upgrade donors to record levels, maximize Kresge and other challenge grants, and raise gifts up to $100,000 through the mail, phone, and Internet.
Patron Technology, Inc. an online marketing software and consulting company, serves the arts and not-for-profit industries with cutting-edge technology and e-marketing expertise. The company strives to revolutionize arts marketing by enabling organizations to maximize the potential of marketing and communications on the Internet. The company's main product, PatronMail, is a web based e-mail marketing system used by over 400 institutions in 42 states, the UK and Canada.
NPI Production Services NPI is your solution for simplifying theatrical payroll. A nationwide company with over thirty years experience providing entertainment payroll services, NPI will payroll your union and/or non-union talent and crew. NPI works with US and Canadian theatre companies taking the hassle out of the payroll process. As the "employer of record" NPI provides workers' compensation and unemployment insurance, federal /state payroll tax filing, union contribution filing/reporting and we cut and deliver your payroll checks.
Schuler Shook provides full theatre consulting services from feasibility studies to theatre planning to systems turn-on. Our continuing experience as professional theatrical designers keeps us current on all aspects of technology available to theatrical production, and it keeps us in contact with the leading creative forces in the industry. Our portfolio includes professional and academic facilities that range from 200-seat intimate drama theatres to 3,000-seat opera houses to 10,000-seat music theatres.
The Stage Channel is your technology partner for both internet and video marketing. We've produced hundreds of promotional videos for theatres of all sizes, from the smallest storefront to Steppenwolf. We provide high quality video streaming and email marketing services to help you get the most from your video and other marketing collateral. We also develop strategic partnerships with popular media outlets to increase our clients' exposure. And we scale our prices according to the size of the venue, making our services affordable for organizations of all sizes.
TALASKE is an acoustics, audio and video consulting firm specializing in design for the performing arts. We recognize that the live performing arts experience depends on an immersion in the moment, and we are committed to creating finely tuned theaters that make this experience effortless—for actors and their audiences. Our clients include the new Guthrie Theatre on the River, Arena Stage, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, and The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington DC.
TAYLAR Development In a sea of call centers and telemarketing companies masquerading as fundraising and arts marketing organizations, TAYLAR Development, LLC is one of only a handful of telefunding and marketing firms in the country dedicated exclusively to the advancement of the performing arts. Our firm has as its sole mission to provide performing arts organizations with the most professional, results oriented and cost effective telefunding and marketing services in the arts industry.
Tessitura ® is an enterprise-wide, fully integrated constituent management software system.Tessitura Software enables an integrated approach for "constituent management" for arts organizations. Using a single database of information, the system empowers the user organization to record, track and manage all contacts with its constituents, conduct highly targeted and cost-efficient marketing and fund raising appeals, handle all ticketing and membership transactions and provide detailed and flexible performance reports. Besides seamlessly providing efficient ticketing and development department operations, internet transaction capabilities and integrated email deployment services, a key benefit of the system is its ability for relationship managers to have a full view of each constituent—their history, preferences and all contacts with the institution.
Tickets.com is a global live event ticketing solutions provider offering venues an innovative choice in the industry under one powerful brand name: ProVenue ™ Ticketing Solutions.
Vendors
Easy-Ware Corporation Elegant in design, flexible and easy-to-use, Total Info is the one system that does it all: box office, fundraising, membership, volunteers, camp and class registration, events, auctions, contact management, email, calendar, grant/sponsorship management, product sales, marketing, letters, reports, mailing labels and much more. Our fully integrated system saves you time and allows you to raise more money and sell more tickets. Very affordable with no extra charges for additional modules or users - plus free upgrades, Total Info has an extremely low life cost. You shouldn’t have to pay a fortune for quality software to run your organization. Total Info provides the most functionality and our low pricing makes it the best value. Find out why our customers say “It’s exactly what I need!”
Northwestern
University Press is a trade and scholarly book publisher. We
publish contemporary American fiction and poetry, Chicago regional
titles, drama, literature in translation, literary nonfiction, and
literary criticism. Our series include: Chicago Lives, Euro Classics,
Jewish Lives, Latino Voices, and Writings from an Unbound Europe.
Our scholarly series include: Avant-Garde and Modernism, Rethinking
Theory, SPEP, and SRLT. We distribute for Glas, Talonbooks, and
Tia Chucha Press.