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Announcing the 2016 BCA 10 Honorees
Presented every year by the Business Committee for the Arts (BCA), a division of Americans for the Arts, the BCA 10 Awards honor 10 companies for their exceptional commitment to the arts through grants, local partnerships, volunteer programs, matching gifts, sponsorships, and board membership. The BCA 10 Awards will be presented on October 5, 2016, at a black-tie gala at the Central Park Boathouse in New York City. The 2016 honorees are:
Austin Energy (Austin, TX) 
Badger Meter (Milwaukee, WI)
CopperPoint Insurance Companies (Phoenix, AZ)
Dealer.com (Burlington, VT)
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery (Milton, DE)
Dunlap Codding (Oklahoma City, OK)
Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick, NJ)
M Powered Strategies, Inc. (Washington, DC)
Northern Trust (Chicago, IL)
Procter & Gamble (Cincinnati, OH)
Stay tuned for the announcement of the BCA Leadership and Hall of Fame Awards. Learn more about BCA 10! View our sponsorship and journal advertisement menus for information on recognizing this year’s honorees. Contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions about BCA 10!
David Rockefeller Lecture on Arts & Business “Frequently businesspeople are only asked about their numbers for the quarter or what they’re going to do with their company; they’re not asked what they’re going to do with respect to the cultural resources they are able to support.”
–David Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, The Carlyle Group from the 2016 David Rockefeller Lecture
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The pARTnership Movement Tools & Resources The pARTnership Movement encourages and celebrates business and arts partnerships that engage employees, stimulate innovation, and transform communities. Join the movement.
Share your pARTnership story on Twitter using #ArtsandBiz or send us an e-mail. Americans for the Arts News Release of the Cultural Equity Statement
Last month, Americans for the Arts announced the release of a new statement on cultural equity. The effort was driven by the board of Americans for the Arts, compelled to re-commit the action, time, and resources toward cultural equity after field-wide engagement with changing demographics and changing habits of participation and consumption of the arts. Read more about the statement: www.AmericansForTheArts.org/CulturalEquity.
Learn more from business leaders including Floyd Green from Aetna and Edgar Smith from World Pac Paper on the importance of cultural equity in Americans for the Arts President and CEO Robert L. Lynch’s most recent Huffington Post piece, Building a Culturally Conscious Future for the Arts.
Engage Business Employees Through the Arts
Blog Salon
In case you missed Americans for the Arts blog salon on engaging business employees through the arts a few weeks ago, you can still catch up! Throughout the week, we heard from a number of arts leaders, as well business employees who’ve both led and participated in efforts to bring the arts to the workplace, stimulate innovation, and deepen the daily practice of creativity in our lives.
“Engaged, motivated, creative employees are great–but without a clear understanding of the expected business application and a supportive environment to sustain it, the energy and insights from arts experiences will dissipate or be wasted on the wrong priorities. Answering “engaged in what?” is the key to strong business impact…When arts-based learning experiences are coupled with reflection and identification of clear path for application, employees are not only actively engaged, they are engage in the right things to propel their business forward.”
-Steve Knight of COCAbiz on making arts-based training experiences as meaningful as they can be for a business and its employees
“…it is evident to our city that [CincySings] has delivered on its mission to leverage the power of the arts to create employee engagement and excitement among the participating companies, and a renewed passion for the arts across the regional community.”
-Mel Healey, Retired Group President for Procter & Gamble North America, on the power of CincySings, a corporate singing competition she helped ArtsWave create three years ago Inspired? Read the rest of the employee engagement blog salon.
Resources
Explore the first three workbooks in a series dedicated to helping arts organizations start skills-based volunteering, arts-based training, and corporate arts challenges. Want a quick and easy way to learn about the benefits of engaging your employees through the arts? Check out our one-pager tools, Six Ways to Use the Arts to Boost Employee Engagement and The Arts Boost Employee Engagement.
From the Private Sector Network The Private Sector Network of Americans for the Arts is comprised of local arts organizations that work to foster arts partnerships with businesses. Learn more. 100 Years of Boeing Supporting the Community
The United Way in the Puget Sound Region of Washington State recently released a video thanking Boeing, a BCA Hall of Fame Company, for supporting the community for the past 100 years. President & CEO of ArtsFund Mari Horita is featured in the video, along with the leaders of other arts and community organizations in the region. Watch here. Rock for Art
The Regional Arts & Culture Council in Portland, OR recently held its first Battle of the Bands competition and raised nearly $75,000. With bands from companies such as Kaiser Permanente and Portland General Electric, the event succeeded in engaging business employees as well as raising funds for RACC’s Work for Art Community Fund. Read more. Facts & Figures
74 percent of employees say their job is more fulfilling when they are provided opportunities to make a positive impact at work. 55 percent would choose to work for a socially responsible company, even if the salary was less. Find out more in the 2016 Cone Communications Employee Engagement Study. 
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