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Register With A MESSAGE TO ALL WEST VIRGINIA ARTISTS AND ARTS ORGANIZATIONS The Importance of Being Registered With Dun and Bradstreet SIGN UP AND BE COUNTED A National Campaign to Register Artists and Arts Organizations with Dun & Bradstreet Arts Advocacy West Virginia and Americans for the Arts urges all individual artists and arts organizations to register online for a free Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) number—or if they already have a D&B number, to ensure that they are accurately coded as an arts-related business. The Creative Industries research uses D&B data to document the number of arts-related businesses and employees in any geographical region or political jurisdiction. If you don’t have a D&B number, then you are not represented in the data. Do your part to help advance the arts in America—SIGN UP AND BE COUNTED. Americans for the Arts has compiled step-by-step directions that will guide you through the process of registering with Dun & Bradstreet using their website. The application process takes less than 10 minutes. It’s fast and it’s free.
Dun & Bradstreet is widely acknowledged as the most comprehensive and trusted source for business information in the United States—which provides very specific and reliable data about employment and the number of arts-centric businesses in both the nonprofit and for-profit arts. Our analyses demonstrate an under-representation of nonprofit arts organizations in the Dun & Bradstreet database, and consequently, in our data. Additionally, many individual artists are not included, as not all are employed by a business. Sign Up and Be Counted Today!
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Since 2004, Americans for the Arts has produced the Creative Industries: Business & Employment in the Arts report, a study of the nonprofit and for-profit arts-related businesses in America. In 2008, our analysis revealed that roughly 612,095 arts businesses employed 2.98 million people. But we know this is an undercount! 
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