More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the nation’s arts sector continues to feel its impact. Americans for the Arts has been conducting ongoing research to measure COVID-19-related effects on the arts and results of these studies are updated weekly in a 1-pager you can download and use in your advocacy work. Bookmark the page and check back frequently for updates.
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Animating Democracy interviewed 16 leading corporate companies to assess the current landscape of corporate support for arts and culture. More corporations are focusing strategically on issues that align with their business interests and have a positive social impact on their employees, consumers, or the communities in which they do business.
The latest Funder Portrait from Animating Democracy is The Fledgling Fund, a grantmaking organization that supports documentary film projects with a social justice agenda and plan of action. Fledgling aims to inspire a better world through film and media, and actively educate their grantees to help build their capacity to engage and track the impact of social documentary film.
Browse study regions and download summaries for your area. Local data includes 341 study regions. Data represents all 50 states and the District of Columbia..
Working through a National Steering Committee comprised of federal, military, nonprofit and private sector partners, Americans for the Arts launched the National Initiative for Arts and Health in the Military (NIAHM) in 2012. In October of 2013, NIAHM released the White Paper and Blueprint for action, which offers research and recommendations for using the arts to address some of the military’s most pressing concerns.
Americans for the Arts, in partnership with The Conference Board, conducted this survey which examines business support and employee engagement for the arts. The survey draws on responses from companies of all sizes that participate in corporate philanthropy, employee engagement, volunteer programs, or sponsorships.
Every day, more than 100,000 nonprofit arts and culture organizations act as economic drivers—creating an industry that supports jobs, generates government revenue, and is the cornerstone of our tourism industry. This study documents the key role played by the nonprofit arts and culture industry, and their audiences, in strengthening our nation’s economy.
This tool-kit, by the pARTnership Movement, is a companion piece designed to assist arts groups in distilling the information in the Corporate Social Responsibility & the Arts report, and help them replicate successful partnership examples in their own communities. We hope it will inspire you to foster mutually beneficial arts and business pARTnerships in your own community!
Reports offer data from Dun & Bradstreet providing the first national study of both the nonprofit and for-profit arts industries.
We conduct our national Arts & Economic Prosperity® studies every five years (the next will be published in 2022). In between the national studies, we offer customized individual studies as a service. Let our economic impact study service make the case for your community, arts district, organization, facility, or event. The findings from these studies have helped arts organizations across the country get the funding they need to continue advancing the arts in their communities.
It's great to know about the number of businesses involved in the creation or distribution of the arts nationally, but even better to know about the creative industries at play in your area.
Have research and data needs, but no time, manpower, or tools to fulfill them? Americans for the Arts offers complete web-based survey services from questionnaire design and implementation to data analysis and reporting.
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Happy New Year from all of us to our members, partners, and supporters of the arts! We enjoyed working with you in 2014, and we're looking forward to a engaging, creative, productive 2015
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Randy Cohen, Vice President of Research and Policy, explains one of our most powerful research studies and advocacy tools: the Arts & Economic Prosperity study. (3:30)
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Ready to dive into AEPIV? Randy Cohen, Vice President of Research and Policy, walks you through the process of creating a customized report just for your community. (1:59)
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Randy Cohen gives an overview of the AEP IV research study at the 2012 Annual Convention. (14:59)
