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Business Contributions to the Arts, 2019 Edition 3

Employee Engagement Workbook: Corporate Art Activations

Employee Engagement Workbook: Corporate Arts Challenges

Employee Engagement Workbook: Arts-Based Training

Employee Engagement Workbook: Arts Incubators

pARTnership Movement Tool-Kit: Building pARTnerships 101

Americans for the Arts Publishes Inclusive Creative Economy Glossary and Website

Arts and Creativity Brings Humanity and Problem-Solving to STEM

Learn How to Partner with Your Chamber of Commerce

Over 110 Chambers of Commerce Deliver Letter to Congress Supporting $18 Billion in Recovery Support for Creative Economy

Past Arts + Business Partnership Award Honorees Designated Best Places to Work by HRC

Last week, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation released the latest edition of the Corporate Equality Index— “the national benchmarking tool on corporate policies, practices and benefits pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer employees.” For the 2021 edition, 767 companies out of 1,142 participants scored 100%. Of those top scorers, almost 50 companies have been recognized at the Arts + Business Partnership Awards. These companies and many others have understood and…

Nominations Open for 2021 Arts and Business Partnership Awards (Virtual)!

20 Past Arts and Business Partnership Honorees Featured in Just 100

Last month, Forbes released The Just 100: Companies Leading the New Era of Responsible Capitalism. The fourth edition of the Just 100 features companies who understand the importance of how they treat five key stakeholders: workers, customers, communities, shareholders, and the environment. Many of these businesses have also been recipients of the Arts and Business Partnership Awards (formerly the BCA10) for their use of the arts as a strategy to address these five areas. From using the arts…

Leveraging the Arts to Achieve Equity, Justice, and Inclusion Goals

With compounding crises of a global pandemic and a reckoning with systemic racism, companies need people and strategies that can respond to an ever-changing, complex world of work. Artists have long used creative outlets to drive movements of change through the celebration of diversity and cultivation of empathy. Americans for the Arts’ survey Americans Speak Out About the Arts 2018 showed that 73% of the population agree that arts “help them understand other cultures better.” Likewise,…

204 Chambers of Commerce Deliver Letter in Support of Nonprofit Arts and Cultural Organizations

Kickstarter launches Lights On

Launched during and in response to Covid-19, Kickstarter’s Lights On initiative aims to alleviate the economic burdens currently placed on cultural and arts organizations. Through the Lights On program, arts organizations can now crowdfund essential operational costs, such as rent and utilities. This is a departure from the traditional Kickstarter model, where funds are raised for the creation of new projects or products only. The program has successfully attracted a slew of new users.…

Businesses Team up with Artists to Uplift Communities

The results are in and numbers are bleak. During these difficult times, arts organizations have been suffering: our organizational survey estimates $4.9 billion in financial impact and the individual survey for artists and creatives shows 95% of artists losing income. But we are heartened by some responses from the business community. As cities and towns grew eerily empty and storefronts were boarded up, it felt to many like a scene out of a dystopian novel. To see places that were once full…

Over 30 Past Honorees Scored 100% on HRC's Corporate Equality Index

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) launched the 2020 Corporate Equality Index, which rates over 1000 of the nation’s businesses and their commitment to LGBTQ Equality and Inclusion.   Corporate Equality Index 2020: Rating Workplaces on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Equality   Of the 1059 businesses who participated in the survey, 686 earned a 100% rating, which indicated they focused on three elements: 1) Non-discrimination policies around…

Nominations Open for 2020 Arts and Business Partnership Awards!

The JUST 100 Features Over a Dozen Arts + Business Partnership Awardees

Yesterday, Forbes released The Just 100: Companies Doing Right by America, as reported by JUST Capital. JUST Capital’s rankings come after five years of research, surveying 100,000 Americans about corporate America. The shift in priorities of Americans on the corporate economy are in line with a new framework proposed by the Business Roundtable that proposes all stakeholders, rather than just shareholders must be taken into consideration with a company’s success. JUST Capital reports that the…

2019 Arts and Business Partnerships Awards Recap

On October 3, 2019 Americans for the Arts celebrated the recipients of the 2019 Arts and Business Partnerships Awards at the Loeb Boathouse Central Park. This year’s honorees exemplify the range of businesses partnering with the arts across America. David Machado Restaurants, Doyle Coffin Architecture, Erie Insurance, Grounds for Thought, Jiffy Lube of Indiana, Nokia Bell Labs, Northwestern Mutual, Omaha Steaks, The Marcus Corporation, and Warby Parker were honored. The David Rockefeller…

2019 Arts and Business Roundtable Recap

On October 2, Americans for the Arts hosted an intimate roundtable convening of business leaders to provide a unique opportunity for peer exchange, as well as deeper exploration about the myriad of ways that companies leverage their work with artists and arts organizations to achieve core business and social impact goals. Robert Lynch, President and CEO of Americans for the Arts welcomed the group, thanking Aetna for their sponsorship and Liberty Capital Group (formerly The Han Group) for…

Top 3 Reasons to Take the 2019 Business Contributions to the Arts Survey

Recap: 4 Common Business Challenges and How the Arts Address Them

From June 16-18, arts administrators, government employees, artists, and many more gathered in the Twin Cities for the Annual Convention. Saturday afternoon saw a number of sessions geared towards private sector partnerships, including our own “4 Common Business Challenges and How the Arts can Address Them.” Our work aims to shift the conversation from businesses contributing to the arts in a soley philantrhopic manner to businesses collaborating with the arts in mutually beneficial…

Houston Methodist (Houston, TX)

Houston Methodist understands the value and potential of partnering with the arts. Through its Center for Performing Arts Medicine (CPAM), this hospital not only specializes in care for performing and visual artists, but it also integrates the arts into holistic patient care and employee wellness. Since winning an Arts and Business Partnership Award (formerly BCA 10) in 2017, Houston Methodist has continued to grow its artistic programming through Arts Enrichment Classes specifically for…