Leverage the Arts Ecosystem to Influence Local Prosperity: A partnership guide for arts administrators and community builders

A vibrant arts sector impacts local business, citizens, youth, artists, governments — in short, everyone! Integrating unique, authentic, creative assets that flow from the arts across multiple sectors supports community prosperity. Through mutually-beneficial partnerships, local stakeholders build a web of community resilience, one that is deep-rooted.

Leverage the Arts Ecosystem to Influence Local Prosperity is a handbook that lifts the veil on subtle but highly influential impacts the arts bring to all communities. Insights support arts advocacy and highlight how the arts bind multiple, intersecting sectors and economies, such as:

• What attracts artists to your community in the first place?
• How to construct effective partnerships that holistically support artistic, community and business evolution.
• Identifying arts ecosystem stakeholders and how they intersect.
• Strategies that guide partnership and publicity efforts, leveraging universal success.
• Why shared values, advocacy, and communication are fundamental to the process.