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When arts and businesses partner, everyone profits.

Creativity is everywhere and is among the most sought-after skills in today’s complex economy. pARTnering with the arts activates employees, stimulates innovation, and fosters creative collaboration.

COVID-19 Business/Arts Partnership Responses

Partnerships between businesses and the arts are always a place where innovation, growth, healing, inspiration, and productivity happens. This is especially true in a crisis. We know that arts and businesses sectors are stepping up to help each other and their communities. We’d like to know how!

It is critically important to gather stories as they evolve so that we may best respond to this emergency by providing relevant and timely resources. Please complete our simple form so that we can capture and quantify the impact of your partnerships on the arts field and the economy.

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8 Reasons to Partner with the Arts

Cultivate Diversity and Empathy

Partnering with the arts allows your employees, company and community to gain better understanding of diverse cultures and ideas and helps build an inclusive workforce.

Businesses need people and strategies that can respond to an ever-changing, complex world of work. Leveraging the arts to advance diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives creates a platform for connectivity and cohesiveness. Let us show you how.

Amplify Skills

The arts reveal and enhance the breadth of talent and creativity among employees and teams by cultivating the creative thinking skills your business needs.

When businesses partner with the arts they get more inspired and engaged employees. We've identified the best reasons why partnering with the arts helps recruit and retain talent. Let us show you how. 

Drive Innovation

The arts foster inspiration, empathy, and leadership — all which establish a platform to innovate in an ever-evolving economy.

When businesses partner with the arts they get more inspired and engaged employees. We’ve identified the best reasons why partnering with the arts helps recruit and retain talent. Let us show you how.

  • 63% of companies promote board service at arts organizations believing that such opportunities provide important talent development opportunities. – Business Contributions to the Arts: 2018 Edition
  • 60% agree that the  more creative and innovative they are at their job, the more successful they are in the workplace. - Americans Speak Out About the Arts 2018
  • 63% percent of employers who considered creative ability a primary concern in the hiring process preferred the creative employee over the technically skilled individual. - Ready to Innovate

Show Gratitude

The arts offer meaningful, enjoyable experiences and valuable benefits to your employees and their families.

When businesses partner with the arts they get more inspired and engaged employees. We’ve identified the best reasons why partnering with the arts helps recruit and retain talent. Let us show you how.

Set Your Business Apart

Leveraging a partnership with an artist/arts organization will help you communicate your company’s story by engaging customers and clients, conveying your unique values.

When businesses partner with the arts, they gain a competitive edge. We’ve identified the best reasons why partnering with the arts expands market share and creates a healthy workplace. Let us show you how.

Enliven the Workplace

The arts stimulate positive company culture and conversation, foster employee well-being, and inspire a healthier work environment through unique and meaningful experiences for human connection.

When businesses partner with the arts, they gain a competitive edge. We’ve identified the best reasons why partnering with the arts expands market share and creates a healthy workplace. Let us show you how.

Advance Civic and Social Priorities

Partnering with the arts fuels the economy, promotes health, wellness and safety, creates social cohesion and connectivity, and fosters civic engagement.

Businesses need communities where employees want to live and work. We’ve identified the best reasons why partnering with the arts contributes to economic vitality and thriving communities. Let us show you how. 

Enrich Community Life

The arts are essential to the development of a vibrant and diverse community in which the best employees want to live, work, shop, create, and contribute.

Businesses need communities where employees want to live and work. We’ve identified the best reasons why partnering with the arts contributes to economic vitality and thriving spaces. Let us show you how.

For Business

Want to infuse your company with creativity and inspire your employees? There are many ways to pARTner with the arts. Here’s a menu of ideas to get you started.

Businesses require new ideas to be at the forefront of the market. Fostering a work environment where employees reach their creative potential is key to unlocking the next big thing. The arts create a platform to generate ideas, invite employees to manifest their talent, and support a healthy company culture. Explore data, research, and tools to see what the arts can do for your business.

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Creatives@Work

Inspired people bring creativity to work. Use this interactive tool to showcase your own employees, tell your company story, and highlight the artist in everyone.

A headshot of Alton Murray.

Meet Alton Murray
the Olafur Eliasson of the Energy Industry

With a passion for dance, and expertise in advancing ConEdison's corporate social responsibility objectives, Alton proves that art and infrastructure can co-exist in creative ways. 

The pARTnership movement ads are an easy way for businesses to show their support for the arts. Arts leaders can pARTner with local businesses to create a custom ad campaign while businesses can use them to recruit creative talent, communicate a creative culture, reach new customers, and enhance their brand. pARTners can use the pre-made ads by Americans for the Arts or create your own!

Tools & Resources

The latest research, toolkits, and workshops to bring your pARTnership to the next level.

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