For Affiliates

Promote Your Events

• • Events Calendar
    Our crowd-sourced online calendar of events contains both in-person and virtual events across North America and beyond. See the listings and submit your events here.

• CDSS News Ads
  Our magazine features stories from communities like yours and reaches about 10,000 people in print and online. Ads for dance and music events are welcome in all issues, and affiliates receive a discounted rate. Find out more about ads here.
• Promoting Events Elsewhere
  Check out the “promotions” tag in the Resource Portal for ideas about other places to market your events.
• CDSS Affiliate Logos
  Add these special logos just for affiliates to your website and other publications.

Create Connections

• Web Chats for Organizers
  A few times a year, we host web chats on a range of topics of interest to dance and music organizers, offering insight and distilled wisdom from other organizers and experts. See the full archive of recordings here.
• Camp
  Our camps are a great way to meet new people and build community connections across the continent! Camps also often include special training courses for callers, musicians, and organizers. See this summer’s schedule here.
• Resource Portal
  The CDSS Resource Portal contains a vast range of resources by and for the dance, music, and song community.
• Affiliate Surveys
  We’ve conducted a number of surveys of our affiliates and other constituents. Find the reports from those surveys here.

Find Funding

• Community Grants
  CDSS grant funding is available to affiliates for a wide range of activities such as workshops (including DEI and equity training), publications, research, startup funds, and more. Find out more about grants here.
• Nonprofit Exemption/501(c)(3) Status
  All US affiliates are eligible to receive 501(c)(3) status, which provides all the benefits of tax exemption including accepting tax-deductible donations, access to some grant funding, preferential rates at some venues, and more. You must apply specifically to become a part of this exemption. Find out more here.