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IN THIS ISSUE
National Budget Proposes Elimination of NEA | Arts, Military, & Healthcare Communities Convene |
Attend Nuts and Bolts of Being a Performing Artist Workshop
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Read About CCX Workshops, Register for the Event |
Apply for a Grant
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Staff Update | On the Blog
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In FY16, New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) programs alone made 462 grants totaling just over $3.4 million, with support from the NEA and private foundations. The NEA invested $5,648,200 in New England through partnership grants to New England's six state arts agencies and their regional partner the New England Foundation for the Arts.
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Image: Akwaaba Ensemble, of New Hampshire, has toured to Massachusetts, Maine, and Rhode Island with support from New England States Touring (NEST); photo by Laura Chadwell.
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Arts, Military, & Healthcare Communities Convene
NEFA partenered with
HowlRound
, a knowledge commons by and for the theatre community, to host
Art in the Service of Understanding: Bridging Artists, Military, Veterans, and Civilian Communities,
a special convening of key stakeholders from the arts, healthcare, and military communities for deep discussion on practices, learning, challenges, and impact around creating and presenting arts projects addressing military and veterans' issues.
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Image: Liz Lerman, Keith A. Thompson, and Paul Hurley present "Healing Wars" as a case study at the Art in the Service of Understanding convening, by Jeffrey Filiault/NEFA.
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Performing Artists: Attend 'Nuts & Bolts' Workshop
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Image: NEST and New England Dance Fund-supported ali kenner brodsky & co.'s PARt, photographed by Erin X. Smithers
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Read About CCX Workshops, Register for the Event
Connect with your peers, exchange ideas, and build your network at NEFA's biennial Creative Communities Exchange (CCX)! CCX workshops share the successful strategies of creative entrepreneurs, city planners, small businesses, and the arts sector that provide actionable tools that you can execute to strengthen your own communities.
Check out the workshops for CCX 2017
where you will learn about creative economy initiatives from throughout New England.
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$100 through 4.14 | $150 after | Scholarship applications due 3.24
David Grant, author of
The Social Profit Handbook, will deliver an interactive keynote. David will share
share new ways to assess your impact in order to improve future work rather than merely judge past performance.
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Apply for a Grant
Grant deadlines are at 11:59 PM ET, with staff available until 5:00 PM ET.
*Round two applications, by invitation only
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Staff Update
Abby Southwell has joined NEFA as Salesforce and IT Administrator.
Prior to joining NEFA, Abby served as a graduate academic technologist at Harvard Business School, collaborating with faculty and technical staff, and designing tools for in-class learning. As an independent consultant, Abby has migrated data and customized Salesforce databases for both nonprofits and higher education.
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Image: Abby Southwell by Jeffrey Filiault/NEFA
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Become a part of the work that we do to sustain the arts in New England and beyond. |
CCX 2017 Local Host & Sponsors |
LOCAL HOST |
PRESENTING SPONSOR |
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Frank Loomis Palmer Fund, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee
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MISSION
NEFA builds connections among artists, arts organizations, and funders, powering the arts to energize communities in New England, the nation, and the world.
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ABOUT NEFA
The New England Foundation for the Arts invests in the arts to enrich communities in New England and beyond. NEFA accomplishes this by granting funds to artists and cultural organizations; connecting them to each other and their audiences; and analyzing their economic contributions. NEFA serves as a regional partner for the National Endowment for the Arts, New England's state arts agencies, and private foundations.
Learn more at nefa.org
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