Americans for the Arts

Our Private Sector Initiatives department at Americans for the Arts is leading efforts to stimulate additional support from the three major areas of the private sector: business, foundations, and individuals.

As part of our efforts, we are planning two interactive opportunities for the public to weigh in on the future of private sector support. The first is a blog salon for the week of March 8, 2010, focusing on building awareness about why and how the private sector supports the arts. This salon event will appear on ARTSblog, with a team of 20 bloggers from the private sector and local arts agencies contributing to the cause. Some of the authors include Diane Swonk, Chief Economist for Mesirow Financial; Gary Steuer, Chief Cultural Officer for the City of Philadelphia; Janet Brown, Executive Director, Grantmakers in the Arts; Colin Tweedy, Chief Executive, Arts & Business UK; Larry Thompson, President of Ringling College; Mark Brewer, President and CEO of the Community Foundation of Central Florida, Inc., and many others. The bloggers will attempt to answer these questions and raise issues of their own.

The second opportunity is the Private Sector Support for the Arts Green Paper which can be found at blog.artsusa.org/category/private-sector-support. This paper raises a lot of questions about the future of private sector support and is called a green paper because once drafted, it will be shifted and changed based on the ongoing dialogue from the field. This discourse will be fueled by Green Paper Ambassador Keely Saye, who will prompt conversation topics and synthesize feedback over the course of the year.

Further details at the following link: http://blog.artsusa.org/category/private-sector/

Americans for the Arts: www.AmericansForTheArts.org