Residents of Wichita, Kansas have bragging rights: their city has the most lucrative nonprofit arts industry in the state. According to Americans for the Arts’ Arts and Economic Prosperity 5 study, arts and culture nonprofits contributed $94.7 million to Wichita’s economy in 2015.
Des Moines, Iowa is the fastest growing city in the Midwest. Just last year, greater Des Moines added 12,145 residents to reach a total population of 634,725. With this influx of people comes economic growth, to which the city’s nonprofit arts and culture sector makes a significant contribution.
When people think about lucrative industries, the nonprofit arts and culture sector likely isn’t the first that comes to mind. However, in Hawaii, nonprofit arts organizations contribute over $205 million per year to the economy, which includes supporting nearly 6,000 full-time equivalent jobs.
In an editorial for the New London Day, Lisa McGinley discusses the impact that the arts and culture sector has on the economy as a whole.
The recently released results of Arts and Economic Prosperity 5 showed that in Colorado’s Pikes Peak Region, one of 341 study regions across the country, arts and culture nonprofits generated over $150 million in economic activity. Local leaders were thrilled by this result.
According to Arts and Economic Prosperity 5, the latest economic impact study by Americans for the Arts, nonprofit arts and culture organizations in the San Jose area generated $191 million in economic activity in 2015. This is an increase of nearly 50 percent from $122 million in 2010, when the survey was last conducted.
In Northwest Arkansas, the arts are a source of entertainment, fulfillment, and community. But they’re also a multimillion-dollar industry.
Arts and Economic Prosperity 5, the latest economic impact study by Americans for the Arts, shows that the nonprofit arts and culture industry in North Texas had an economic impact of over $1 billion in 2015. The region also took part in the 2010 study Arts and Economic Prosperity IV, and the growth over five years has been staggering.
Arts and Economic Prosperity 5 (AEP5), a new study by Americans for the Arts, found that southern Florida reaps economic benefits from the nonprofit arts and culture industry.
Residents of Savannah, Georgia have always known that the arts play a vital role in their community, but now they have the numbers to back it up. Arts and Economic Prosperity 5, a new study by Americans for the Arts, shows that nonprofit arts and culture organizations contribute more than $135.9 million per year to Savannah’s economy.
Americans for the Arts recently published the report Arts and Economic Prosperity 5 (AEP5), and in South Carolina, the results are worth bragging about.
In a recent op-ed, the editorial board of the Winston-Salem Journal voiced support for the arts as a major contributor to the local and state economies. The piece came as a response to Arts and Economic Prosperity 5 (AEP5), an Americans for the Arts study that examines the economic impact of nonprofit arts and culture organizations.
Morristown resident Drew Ogle believes that funding nonprofit arts and cultural organizations pays off, and he has the data to prove it. Ogle is the executive director of the Rose Center for the Arts, one of 250 local partners in Americans for the Arts’ latest research study, Arts and Economic Prosperity 5 (AEP5).
Foster’s Daily Democrat, the leading newspaper in southeast New Hampshire, published a two-part series about the results of the Arts and Economic Prosperity 5 (AEP5) survey in the Greater Portsmouth region.
