Americans for the Arts

This final report of the Maricopa Regional Arts and Culture Task Force illustrates the economic importance of arts and culture; outlines the financial challenges facing Maricopa County, Arizonas arts and culture institutions; and recommends strategies and actions for improving the arts and culture sector.

This evaluation report from the Culture Builds Communities Project reviews a four-year comprehensive community grant program. The goals of this program were to both increase participation in the arts and to foster community building through the arts and culture.

This thesis investigates four arts districts (Providence, RI, Pawtucket RI, Worcester MA, and New Bedford MA) in order to answer ways in which artists can be proactively involved in the urban regeneration process.

Businesses often promote volunteerism as one of the key elements of employee engagement. Arts organizations are looking for ways to increase involvement with skilled volunteers. This tool-kit focuses on how volunteer programs can make employees feel more engaged on the job, learn new skills or improve their existing skills, and increase interaction between junior and senior employees, and how we can bring this information into conversations with corporate partners about designing Business Volunteers for the Arts® programs.

What is the most effective way to take data from the Creative Industries reports and turn it into a story appealing to the business community? This tool-kit has peer insights on the best ways to craft your message, along with information on how the arts sector has used the reports in local communities.

This annotated bibliography focuses on broader issues about the new economy and how to understand it.

This paper reflect the remarks made by FCC Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein Before The Media Institute on May 20, 2003.

In this article I review and evaluate recent work that argues for the rising importance of the cultural sector, and creativity in general, in the context of the new economy.

Excerpted from Arts & America: Arts, Culture, and the Future of America’s Communities. This essay looks at changes in the American economy and the workforce and the role the arts may play in positively impacting those changes over the next 10–15 years and beyond. The

First essay in the book Arts & America: Arts, Culture, and the Future of America’s Communities featuring an introduction by Americans for the Arts CEO Robert L. Lynch. The

Overview of nonprofit cultural heritage organizations in the and a snapshot of their structure, finances and programs.

On May 31, 2006, Mayor Cohen convened Portland's Creative Economy Summit. Over two hundred members of the Creative Economy attended the event, which was held in the Merrill Rehearsal Hall. After introductory remarks, the participants divided into three groups: creative individuals, creative organizations, and creative enterprises. Each group worked to develop three action steps for enhancing Portland's creative economy; and at the end of the Summit, this list of nine steps was reduced by the full group to three final recommendations.

November 1998 Forum that sought to stimulate dialogue about how to build a stronger, more financially secure future for the arts in America.

March 1993 Monograph explores Tucson's downtown revitalization

Many states have created arts-based economic development strategies to support rural communities across the who are confronting economic development issues.