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MetLife Foundation National Arts Forum Series
Past Forums
2006–2007 Series
The Arts And Workforce Development
In the 2006–2007 series, partner organizations examined three themes related to workforce development issues: the role of arts education in developing the “workers of the future”; the role of arts-based training and exposure to arts for current workers and; the role the arts play in health, brain elasticity, and delay of the aging process.
2005–2006 Series
The Transforming Arts Landscape: Cutting Edge Strategies that Target the Private Sector
In this series, partner organizations addressed how arts organizations can best deal with both the dramatic and subtle shifts in American demographics as well as the challenging global and domestic economic climate.
2003–2004 Series
Strategic Alliances, Leadership Development, and New Business Practices and Trends
Partnering organizations chose two of the following three themes as the subjects of their forums:
- Alliances among nonprofit arts groups, including innovative collaborations, mergers, and methods of resource sharing;
- Leadership development, including trends in board recruitment and training; and
- New business practices and trends that will affect arts organizations.
2002 Series
Arts Issues: Community Dialogues Across America
The 2002 Forum Series marked the first year of the national incarnation of this program of Arts & Business Council, Inc, previously offered in New York City since 1998. Topics ranged from fundraising and sponsorship to artists as entreprenuers.
