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The pARTnership Movement

Ten Years, Ten Ways the BCA 10 are Building Arts Partnerships
Can you believe that 2014 marks the 10th anniversary of the BCA 10: Best Businesses Partnering with the Arts in America? For a decade, the Business Committee for the Arts (BCA), a division of Americans for the Arts, has been celebrating companies that enrich the workplace, education, and the community through their partnerships with the arts. In celebration of ten years of the BCA 10, we've highlighted 10 of the many ways BCA 10 honorees have been shaking up the arts world, one partnership at a time. Visit the pARTnership Movement for the full list of 2014 BCA 10 honorees, and find ways you can help celebrate these fantastic arts and business partnerships including placing a recognition ad in the event program and sponsorship of the BCA 10 gala.

Atlantic Salt Is LUMEN-ating the Arts
What do you do in the summertime when your business is a seaside dock that unloads salt from vessels and distributes it for winter-time de-icing? Why, turn it into an art gallery, of course! The latest success story from pARTnership Movement looks at Atlantic Salt, Inc., a 2013 BCA 10 honoree, and its annual presentation of the free-to-the-public LUMEN Festival, a one-day, six-hour festival featuring video and performance art. Read the full story at the pARTnership Movement.

Long Island Middle Schooler Takes Over Google's Homepage
Doodle 4 Google is an annual competition held by Google where students are given the chance to create a logo to be featured on the Google homepage. This year’s Doodle 4 Google winner is 11-year old Audrey Zhang of New York. Zhang received a $30,000 college scholarship and $50,000 Google for Education technology grant for her school. In addition, Google.org, the charitable arm of Google, donated $40,000 in her name to charity:water, which provides clean water to schools in Bangladesh. Take a look at all of the outstanding national grade group winners, and view the 2014 Doodle 4 Google video featuring Zhang and this year's finalists at the pARTnership Movement.

Humana Is Moving the Needle
Leslie Lyons, creative director of New York-based production company Moving the Needle, discusses her collaboration with Actors Theatre of Louisville and Humana Inc., a 2006 BCA Hall of Fame inductee. Moving the Needle has created a video campaign that will be used to celebrate the success of the Humana Festival of New American Plays (presented annually by the Actors Theatre of Louisville), helping to reach new audiences and effectively engage them in the Festival’s history. The result is a product created by artists that flows back to benefit the corporate sponsor. Read more at the pARTnership Movement.

“At Humana, we embrace several core values that influence the way we conduct our business and relate to others. Two of these values, cultivate uniqueness and thrive together, are reflected in our partnership with Actors Theatre of Louisville and, by extension, Moving the Needle.”

-Virginia Judd, Executive Director, The Humana Foundation

New Video Series from the US Trust Discusses the Value of Art
The US Trust, the private wealth management division of Bank of America (a 2012 BCA 10 honoree), has launched Heritage Meets Innovation, a video series that puts cultural visionaries in conversation with one another to discuss important topics in our society. In the second video of the series, Kenyan-born artist Wangechi Mutu and Christopher Vroom, co-founder of art distribution website Artspace, come together to discuss the role of art in the economy and our communities. Learn more about the Heritage Meets Innovation series at the pARTnership Movement.

Private Sector Network

ArtsWestchester Initiative Gathers ‘STEAM’
“We’re going to be 50 years old in 2015, and we’ve set some goals for ourself approaching our anniversary. We wanted to build 50 new business partnerships… We’re halfway there,” said Janet Langsam, executive director of ArtsWestchester. The 50 business partnership initiative, which kicked off in February, is just one way that ArtsWestchester is ensuring a thriving future for the arts in the Westchester community. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, a new business partner, is currently sponsoring an exhibition at ArtsWestchester headquarters in White Plains, NY called ‘STEAM’, which the focuses on incorporating the arts into the STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) education movement. Read more at WestfairOnline.com.

Breakfast of Champions: Con Edison Welcomes ABC/NY Interns
The Arts and Business Council of New York’s Multicultural Arts Management Internship program kicked off early last month with a breakfast at the offices of Con Edison, the lead sponsor of the program. Hilary Ayala, director of grassroots programs at Con Edison, welcomed this year’s 11 interns and explained why Con Edison supports the program year after year. The internship program, which places interns at arts organizations and pairs each one with a business mentor, takes a unique approach to developing diversity within the pool of future leaders of both the arts and business worlds. Learn more about the internship program and Con Edison’s involvement at the pARTnership Movement.

Facts and Figures

Latest Trends in Corporate Giving According to Giving USA
Giving USA is the longest-running, most comprehensive report on business philanthropy in America. Among the interesting findings in the recently released Giving USA 2014 report pertains to corporate giving to all charities (not just the arts):

  • Corporate giving decreased 1.9 percent in 2013
  • Even though the market did very well in 2013, corporate profits slowed substantially compared with 2012
  • Corporate profits are directly linked to corporate giving

The complete Giving USA 2014 report, with estimates covering 2013 giving, is available at GivingUSAReports.org. Visit BenefactorGroup.com for a clever infographic summarizing the 2014 report.

Take Note

Business pARTnerships Blog Salon
July 14–18, 2014
Interested in forging arts and business partnerships in your area but unsure of where to begin? Learn from those who are already doing it well in this ARTSblog salon, July 14–18. The blog salon will highlight successful and unique partnerships with the arts in various for-profit sectors through workplace training programs, creative competitions, corporate volunteerism, and more. You’ll also hear from past and present BCA 10 honorees, giving you an idea of what motivates businesses to partner with the arts. If you have a partnership you’d like to share, please contact Private Sector Initiatives Coordinator Jordan Shue at [email protected] to submit an idea or post. Be sure to continually check ARTSblog beginning the week of July 14 for great arts and business content!

WEBINAR: Sports and the Arts—pARTnerships Where You Don't Expect It
Wednesday, July 23, 2014, 3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. (ET)
The arts have always had the power to excite people, but how can we tap into the arena of avid sports spectators to increase that energy even more? Partnerships can happen in places where we least expect it, and collaborations with the sports world are ones that might not come to mind right away, but they can also produce excellent rewards. Join us on July 23 at 3:00 p.m. (ET) to learn from two examples of how the arts world has merged with sports. Margy Waller of Art on the Streets will join artist Pam Kravetz in a discussion of how they incorporated art into Cincinnati's Flying Pig Marathon, and ArtsWave's Rebecca Bromels and Lisa Wolter will walk us through how they formed a great working relationship with a nationally franchised sports team–the Cincinnati Reds. For more information and to register, visit Americans for the Arts Webinars. (No cost to Americans for the Arts members—join now and save!)

Speaking from Experience

“Supporting the arts within the cities and towns where we live and work is our way of giving back at Bacardi, and this sense of corporate responsibility has been at our foundation since the Bacardi company was created more than 150 years ago. Arts programming enriches the lives of our employees and their families, our neighbors, and our business partners. The realm of the arts cross borders and languages to bring all people together in the name of beauty, knowledge and community.”

-Robert Furniss-Roe, Regional President, Bacardi North America

 

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