This workbook series focuses on one of the many ways arts organizations can work with businesses—arts-based employee engagement. This broad concept can be defined as employee engagement training or a cultural experience, delivered through various arts disciplines (music, visual art, drama etc.).

Arts partnerships offer companies effective and cost-efficient methods of achieving critical business goals. In fact, 79% of businesses agree that the arts increases name recognition, and 74% of businesses say the arts offer networking opportunities to developing businesses (2010 BCA National Survey of Business Support for the Arts). The fourth essay in The pARTnership Movement essay series, Engage Your Employees, shares stories of how some of America’s top companies partner with the arts to build morale, creativity, and innovation in the workplace.

"Arts and cultural economic activity – adjusted for inflation – grew 2.5 percent in 2013, according to estimates of the industries’ real value added by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). That compares with a 1.1 percent increase in 2012" (Aversa, Kern 2016).

This needs assessment report quantifies key challenges facing Colorado’s visual artists and identifies potential solutions to those challenges. The information will help Colorado Artists, other arts organizations and local cultural agencies better understand and collectively respond to the needs of the state’s creative community.

The maker movement is the platform for today’s artisans to create, craft, develop and prototype new and interesting ideas and products. This new, hyperlocal manufacturing environment holds potential not only for individual hobbyists but also for community-wide advances in local entrepreneurship and job creation.

This Infographic, The Maker Movement: A Timeline of Key Modern Events, was develope to show key events the are helping to grow the maker movement in America.

This 2016 report by Creative State asks the following questions:

Featuring successful case studies from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters and Kaiser Permanente, Americans for the Arts’ fourth pARTnership Movement essay, Advance Corporate Objectives & Strategies, demonstrates how arts partnerships can help companies creatively and effectively communicate with customers, employees, and other stakeholders, cutting through the clutter of the information age.

Arts partnerships frequently offer companies effective and cost-efficient methods of achieving critical business goals. Americans for the Arts is producing a series of eight essays that will explore and illustrate the different types of benefits that arts partnerships can bring to your company. This particular essay makes the case that the arts help to stimulate employees and encourage the critical thinking needed to advance business goals.

Arts partnerships offer companies effective and cost-efficient methods of achieving critical business goals. In fact, 79% of businesses agree that the arts increases name recognition, and 74% of businesses say the arts offer networking opportunities to developing businesses (2010 BCA National Survey of Business Support for the Arts). The second essay in The pARTnership Movement essay series, Put Your Company in the Spotlight, shares stories of how some of America’s top companies partner with the arts to build market share, enhance their brand, and reach new customers.