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Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts & Humanities Councils & Agencies, Fund Raising & Fund Distribution
Mission: Artsfund strengthens the community by supporting the arts through leadership, advocacy, and grant making.
Programs: Artsfund provides general operating support to nonprofit irc 501(c)(3) arts organizations. Awards are made through an "allocation process and take into consideration each organization's mission and art, management and financial condition, and commitment to and impact on the community. For the year ended september 30, 2017, 62 organizations were granted operating support.
donor directed contributions are awarded to arts organizations through the program: designated workplace giving.
cultural resource collective: artsfund manages and serves as fiscal agent for the cultural resource collective (crc), a private and secure patron database used by over 30 arts and culture organizations to develop audiences.
artsfund conducts a variety of programs to benefit the cultural sector: an associates program to equip volunteers with leadership and fundraising skills; board leadership training classes on legal and financial responsbilities, strategic planning, fundraising and best governance practices; convenings to share resources, practices and persectives to expand the capacity of the cultural sector; study of the economic impact of the arts; and fiscal sponsor for building for the arts.