Arts participation: What counts in your community?

Cultural Engagement in California’s Inland Regions A middle-schooler streams YouTube videos. A family shares its heritage through a holiday skit. A baby boomer starts a garage band. Today, many forms of cultural engagement take place off the radar of traditional nonprofit arts organizations. How can community foundations help arts organizations better support the broad range [...]

Putting community in community foundation arts

San Diego Arts & Culture Working Group Relevance. Responsiveness. Relationships. Any community foundation working in arts and culture wants more of each. The San Diego Foundation grows these assets through its Arts & Culture Working Group. It’s an approach adopted in 2003 to connect community members to community foundation initiatives. Through this collaboration with volunteers, [...]