Partnerships
Our Partners: Associations, Coalitions, and Organizations
The Actors Fund
A national human services organization that helps all professionals in performing arts and entertainment.
AFM SAG-AFTRA Fund
A Fund that collects and distributes royalties from various foreign territories and royalties established by government statute under U.S. Copyright Law.
Film Musicians’ Secondary Markets Fund
A resource to research, collect and distribute musicians’ residual payments for the exploitation of their talents in the motion picture, television and digital media industries.
NY is Music
A coalition of industry stakeholders advancing the importance of music in economic development, culture and education in New York.
New York Production Alliance
An alliance of corporations, unions, guilds, associations and individuals at the forefront of New York’s film and television industry.
Orchestra of St. Luke’s & the DiMenna Center
OSL and the DiMenna Center previously partnered with Local 802 on the Emerging Artists Project, providing mentorship, access to reduced cost recording and rehearsal space, and promotional support.
Post New York Alliance
An association of film and television post production facilities and labor unions operating in New York. PNYA members coalesced around the belief that a unified industry presents the post production community better opportunity to develop and promote public policy that benefits the film and television industry as a whole.
Sound Exchange
An organization that collects and distributes digital performance royalties on behalf of more than 130,000 recording artists and master rights owners accounts, administers direct agreements on behalf of rights owners and administers direct agreements on behalf of rights owners and licensees.
Sound Recording Special Payments Fund
The Sound Recording Special Payments Fund (“SRSPF”) distributes annual supplemental wages to musicians under the collective bargaining agreement between the American Federation of Musicians (“AFM”) and the recording industry.
Recording Academy of America
An organization that seeks to positively impact the lives of musicians, industry members and our society at large through advocacy, legislation, and the celebration of the recording industry.
Our Partners: Sister Labor Unions and Guilds
American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada
The international parent of Local 802, Associated Musicians of Greater New York, comprising 80,000 musicians who perform in orchestras, backup bands, festivals, clubs and theaters—both on Broadway and on tour. AFM members also make music for films, TV, commercials and sound recordings.
New York State AFL-CIO
A federation of 3,000 affiliated public sector, private sector, and building trades unions throughout the state, representing 2.5 million members, retirees and their families. Central Labor Council – non-profit labor membership organization of 300 local unions, devoted to supporting, advancing and advocating for the working people of New York City.