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BCA 10

One Month Until This Year’s BCA 10!

As we prepare for the BCA 10 Gala on October 5, take the time to hear from the business leaders behind the best businesses partnering with the arts in America.

Also, it’s not too late to join us—learn more about attending the gala in New York City.

See the full press release announcing the event.

BCA 10 Webinar

JOIN US FOR TODAY'S WEBINAR

Register now and join Americans for the Arts today September 7 at 3:00 p.m. (ET) to hear directly from 2016 BCA 10 honorees Dogfish Head Brewery, Austin Energy, and Johnson & Johnson about why they partner with the arts and learn how to create successful partnerships with the businesses in your community.

The pARTnership Movement

Check out these pARTnership Movement stories!

Facts and Figures

BCA Survey of Business Support for the Arts
Reminder! The 2016 National Survey of Business Support for the Arts, which is jointly conducted by The Conference Board and Americans for the Arts, is open to companies of all sizes who participate in corporate philanthropy, employee engagement, volunteer programs, or sponsorship. Fill out the survey and share it with your business networks!

2016 Millennial Impact Report

Research and marketing agency, Achieve, has published its new findings on how Millennials’ philanthropic interests are evolving. 

In the 2016 Millennial Impact Report, 1,050 survey participants shared information about their cause engagement, political affiliation, and more. See the trends.

  • 46 percent  had volunteered for a cause affiliated with a social issue they care about in the past month.
  • 52 percent had donated to a cause affiliated with a social issue they care about in the past month.
  • 64 percent had signed petitions for issues they care about in the past month.

Americans for the Arts News

#ShowYourArt for National Arts & Humanities Month Submissions
In celebration of National Arts & Humanities Month, Americans for the Arts is launching a social media campaign intended to highlight personal stories under the hashtag #ShowYourArt. Do you dance when no one is looking? Do you sit in the park and draw? Have a journal filled with words or doodles? Maybe it is a public art piece or art experience that changed the way your community thinks or feels, the way you look at your work, your world or your life. We would love to have your story as part of our 31-day campaign and beyond. To participate, send an e-mail Director of Local Arts Services Ruby Harper at [email protected] by September 9 for more details.

ARTSblog: “Actors and Botanists Can Both be ‘Ready for Tomorrow’” by Emily Peck, Americans for the Arts Vice President of Private Sector Initiatives
Recently, Wells Fargo released an ad campaign for their “Teen Financial Education Day” encouraging students to leave the arts behind to embark on other careers. The ads featured tag lines stating “A ballerina yesterday. An engineer today” or “An actor yesterday. A botanist today” and finished with the call to action, “Let’s get them ready for tomorrow.” Wells Fargo implied that students shouldn’t pursue a career in the arts.  Here’s why we don’t agree.

Private Sector Network

How to Use the Arts to Combat Employee Disengagement
On September 1, Jordan Shue with Americans for the Arts and Tess Srebro with VolunteerMatch led a webinar on why the arts are a powerful driver of employee engagement; how companies, artists, and arts groups are partnering with businesses around the country through skills-based volunteering with the arts, employee art shows, community team-building art projects, and more. Watch the presentation

Message to Business Leaders
The new executive director of Paint Creek Center for the Arts in Rochester, NY comes from a career outside the art world, but has brought a strong message to business leaders that supporting the arts is in their best interests. Read a recent interview with Tami Salisbury.

Employee Engagement and Gamification
It’s all fun and games! Read about why gamification, the process of using game-like thinking and mechanics, is useful in a non-game context like work, and why gamification is what’s next for employee performance management. 

Employee Engagement and Hackathons
Hackathons are no longer just for coders. Companies far outside the tech world are using these intense brainstorming and development sessions to stir up new ideas on everything from culture change to supply chain management.

 

 

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