SPECIAL 10th ANNIVERSARY BCA 10 EDITION! 
The BCA 10: Best Businesses Partnering with the Arts in America
October 1, 2014 marks the 10th anniversary of the BCA 10: Best Businesses Partnering with the Arts in America. For a decade, the Business Committee for the Arts (BCA), a division of Americans for the Arts, has been celebrating companies that enrich their workplaces and communities through partnerships with the arts. The 10 businesses that we recognize this year join our illustrious honor roll of BCA 10 companies that are creating vibrant communities for employees, clients, and the public, and enriching workplaces with outlets for creativity and artistic involvement. The 2014 BCA 10
AC Entertainment (Knoxville, TN)
Brookfield (New York, NY)
BBVA Compass (Birmingham, AL)
Brooks Resources Corporation (Bend, OR)
Classical Movements, Inc. (Alexandria, VA)
Edward Jones (St. Louis, MO)
Hallmark Cards, Inc. (Kansas City, MO)
Milliken & Company (Spartanburg, SC)
PECO (Philadelphia, PA)
Thrivent Financial (Appleton, WI) BCA Leadership Award
Frederic C. Hamilton, Chairman, The Hamilton Companies (Denver, CO) BCA Hall of Fame
John Deere (Moline, IL) | 
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Please join us in a round of applause for the 2014 BCA 10: Best Businesses Partnering with the Arts in America! Read more about each honoree company’s partnerships with the arts at the pARTnership Movement. The pARTnership Movement Forbes Recognizes the 2014 BCA 10 as Top Innovators
The September 8 issue of Forbes not only announces the 100 world’s most innovative companies, but also includes a full-page ad celebrating the 2014 BCA 10 honorees (p. 115). The ad reads, “The best businesses in America support the arts because they know that the arts are drivers of innovation, helping to build market share, a creative workforce and vibrant communities in which their employees live and work. We recognize their innovation.” See a high-resolution version of the ad at the pARTnership Movement. |  |
AC Entertainment Not Only Presents, but Also Partners with the Arts
Known for presenting the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, 2014 BCA 10 honoree AC Entertainment uses its concerts, festivals, and events as a platform through which to lend support to the arts. Find out how the company has partnered with the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority on Arts in the Airport—designed to turn the airport terminal into a space for rotating public art—at the pARTnership Movement.  For Brooks Resources, Partnering with the Arts Means Partnering with the Whole City
2014 BCA 10 honoree Brooks Resources Corporation has been instrumental in turning Bend, OR, the city of its headquarters, from a frontier settlement to timber boomtown to a city rich in arts and culture. Learn how the company helped to establish Art in Public Places, which has enlivened the Bend community with public works of art, and was recognized by Americans for the Arts in 2005 as one of the 37 Most Innovative Approaches to Public Art, at the pARTnership Movement.
Milliken & Company Puts Full STEAM into the Arts
2014 BCA 10 honoree Milliken & Company actively supports STEAM education—a movement that works to integrate the arts into a curriculum of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). With The Arts Partnership of Greater Spartanburg, Milliken helps to provide more than 40 week-long professional artists-in-residence in schools throughout Spartanburg County in South Carolina. Read more about Milliken’s initiatives to support arts education at the pARTnership Movement. PECO Supports a Multicultural Philadelphia
One of our 2014 BCA 10 honorees PECO’s signature summer arts events is the PECO Multicultural Series at Penn’s Landing—a series of festivals that celebrate the cultural diversity of Philadelphia, offering free family-friendly activities and an opportunity to experience the sights, tastes, and sounds of a variety of cultures. Learn more about the PECO Multicultural Series at the pARTnership Movement.  Hungry for More Inspiring BCA 10 Stories?
Read about all of our 2014 BCA 10 honorees and their partnerships with the arts in the 2014 BCA 10 press release, and find out how BCA 10 honorees, past and present, have been supporting the arts in their communities in our blog salon, “Unique Business Partnerships,” on ARTSblog.
Take Note WEBINAR: BCA 10 Businesses in Action
Wednesday, December 3, 2014, 3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. (ET)
Hear directly from 2014 BCA 10 honorees about why they partner with the arts and gain inspiration for building successful partnerships with the businesses in your community. To register, visit Americans for the Arts Webinars. (No cost to Americans for the Arts members—join now and save!) Speaking from Experience  “My involvement in the Denver Art Museum, The National Gallery of Art and the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver has enabled me to contribute to the longevity and financial well-being of these and many other organizations. I care deeply about investing for the future; building healthy endowments for arts institutions ensures their programs and collections are preserved for many generations to come.”
-Frederic C. Hamilton,
Chairman, The Hamilton Companies,
2014 BCA Leadership Award Honoree
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