BCA Noteworthy November 2016

Learn more about the BCA 10 Awards, read about this year’s celebration, and view photos from this year’s event.

50th Anniversary of “Culture and the Corporation,” a Speech by David Rockefeller

Read David Rockefeller's original speech on arts and business, “ Culture and the Corporation,” which he presented 50 years ago at the Conference Board’s 50th anniversary conference. The speech called for the creation of the Business Committee for the Arts to promote partnership between the arts and business communities. As a result of this speech, the Business Committee for the Arts was officially launched in 1967 and is now part of Americans for the Arts. This is also the speech that inspired our David Rockefeller Lecture Series. Take a look at the speech and learn more about the David Rockefeller Lecture Series.

“In our increasingly mechanized and computerized world, the arts afford a measure of consolation and reassurance to our individuality, a measure of beauty and human emotion that can reach and move most men. They are indispensable to the achievement of our great underlying concern for the individual, for the fullest development of the potential hidden in every human being.”

–David Rockefeller, Founding Address, Business Committee for the Arts, 1966

National Survey of Business Support for the Arts

We heard your feedback and created a short version of the National Survey of Business Support for the Arts. The new survey will take only a minute, but still enables us to track and share trend data on how and why businesses of all sizes do, and do not, support the arts. Businesses, we'd be grateful if you would take a minute to participate, and thrilled if you decide to participate via the full survey, so that we can have a more thorough report. Arts organizations, please share with your business networks.

Business representatives: Please complete the abridged survey or the full survey.

Americans for the Arts News

Check out all the individuals and organizations honored by Americans for the Arts in 2016

As a tribute and a thank you to all our partners, Americans for the Arts is placing this advertisement, featuring all our cross-sector awardees, in publications including the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Politico, and the Nonprofit Times. Read more about the awards we give every year to honor the work of our partners and fellow arts champions.

GivingTuesday On-Demand Webinar

#GivingTuesday, celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving and the widely recognized shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday, is a global day of charitable giving fueled by the power of social media. As giving days have increased in popularity, 92nd Street Y, the founder of #GivingTuesday, and Anne Katz, executive director of Arts Wisconsin, talk about how arts organizations can plan and implement successful giving days. Listen to the on-demand webinar.

Private Sector News

The Convergence of Arts and Technology in NYC

Join ABC/NY on the evening of November 15 for a panel discussion and networking event exploring the nexus of art and technology featuring the great minds behind Google Creative Lab, The Knight Foundation, Kickstarter, andRhizome. Register today.

CBCA Annual Business for the Arts Awards

The Colorado Business Committee for the Arts’ annual Business for the Arts Awards honors exemplary arts and business partnerships. Nominate an outstanding company or individual for this statewide recognition! Award applications are due November 16.

Artists Lending to a Culture of Heath

IDEAS xLab in Louisville, KY was recently awarded the prestigious Culture of Health Prize from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for its efforts to the arts, health equity, and social entrepreneurship. Check out a webcast of the ceremony and to hear from Theo Edmonds, co-founder of IDEAS xLab about artists impacting health in surprising ways.

Congratulations!

Greater Arts & Business Council of Nashville’s Casey Summer was just named the 2016 Bank of America CEO of the Year. Listen to a short interview with her about the award and her work in Nashville. And congrats to United Arts of Central Florida, which has been awarded its second grant from 2015 BCA Hall of Fame Award winner Duke Energy in two years in the amount of $50,000, as a continuation of United Arts’ diversity and inclusion outreach initiatives within Central Florida’s arts and cultural community.

Facts and Figures

Colorado Business Committee for the Arts 2016 Economic Activity Study

Colorado Business Committee for the Arts recently released its 2016 Economic Activity Study which showed that the arts generate $1.8 billion in economic activity in metro Denver. CBCA Executive Director Deborah Jordy also chatted with Westword about the results of the study, as well as the impact of the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District, the one-penny-on-every-ten-dollars tax approved by voters in 1988.