Helping Foundations Understand their Connection to Social Impact… with the Arts

Please note this session has limited seating and will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Using as a jumping off point Americans for the Arts' new interactive tool, the Arts + Social Impact Explorer, this interactive workshop will engage participants in a dialogue about how foundations can support work being done at the intersection of social sectors, the arts and healthy and vibrancy communities. The Arts + Social Impact Explorer is an online primer that draws together top-line research and case studies at the intersection of the art and 25 other sectors in a visually appealing, highly interactive tool. This tool is meant to drive conversation, and is accompanied by customized Fact Sheets that are downloadable and printable for sharing with board members, public and private sector policymakers, and more. It also is mobile-friendly, and future work on this project will be about aligning the information in the Explorer with advocacy and decisionmaker education efforts to help expand the conversation about the arts and their value to communities. Functioning as the surface of a “lake” of knowledge, this tool is sourced so that people who wish to can visit the websites of all the example projects, click directly to the research referenced, and engage directly with the other partners doing this work around the country. We will highlight several specific topic areas and then facilitate dialogue about social impact.

Organized by Americans for the Arts