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pARTnership Movement Fact Sheets: 8 Reasons Packet

This packet of fact sheets contains all 8 fact sheets representing each of the 8 Reasons for Businesses and the Arts to Partner. They can be downloaded here as one document, or individually. These fact sheets provide research and examples on leveraging the arts to strengthen arts and business partnerships; and can  be used to make the case for such partnerships. 

The 8 Reasons include: 

Cultivate Diversity & Empathy: Partnering with the arts allows your employees, company and community to gain better understanding of diverse cultures and ideas and helps build an inclusive workforce. 

Employees

Amplify Skills: The arts reveal and enhance the breadth of talent and creativity among employees and teams by cultivating the creative thinking skills your business needs. 

Drive Innovation: The arts foster inspiration, empathy, and leadership — all which establish a platform to innovate in an ever-evolving economy.

Show Gratitude: The arts offer meaningful, enjoyable experiences and valuable benefits to your employees and their families. 

Company

Set Your Business Apart: Leveraging a partnership with an artist/arts organization will help you communicate your company’s story by engaging customers and clients, conveying your unique values. 

Enliven the Workplace: The arts stimulate positive company culture and conversation, foster employee well-being, and inspire a healthier work environment through unique and meaningful experiences for human connection.  

Community

Enrich Community Life: The arts are essential to the development of a vibrant and diverse community in which the best employees want to live, work, shop, create, and contribute. 

Advance Civic & Social Priorities: Partnering with the arts fuels the economy, promotes health, wellness and safety, creates social cohesion and connectivity, and fosters civic engagement.
 

This packet of fact sheets contains all 8 fact sheets representing each of the 8 Reasons for Businesses and the Arts to Partner. They can be downloaded here as one document, or individually. These fact sheets provide research and examples on leveraging the arts to strengthen arts and business partnerships; and can  be used to make the case for such partnerships.

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pARTnership Movement Fact Sheets Packet
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This document is a complete pdf packet of all 8 fact sheets for each of the 8 Reasons for Businesses and the Arts to Partner from the pARTnership Movement.
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February 2021