Our Partners

Strong partnerships are essential to our mission of building and supporting a diverse community of cultural leaders who drive inspiring change for the future. 

To create a network for change, we seek a wide range of leaders and organizations: national, regional and local funders; arts and cultural agencies; service organizations; and our growing community of change-makers. Our partners share our belief that career-long investment in arts and culture change-makers is critical for the health of our communities.

Join us and change the status quo.

We are looking for partnerships with forward-thinking, collaborative, community responsive grantmakers. We have a lot to offer to strengthen existing leadership investment efforts and to support a deeper and more diverse community of practice in your city and across the country.

Program Partners

Past funding partners include:

• The Abell Foundation
• The American Express Foundation
• Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
• Arts Council of Silicon Valley
• Arizona Republic
• The Arizona Community Foundation
• The Atherton Family Foundation
• Bancfirst
• Boettcher Foundation
• The Boston Foundation
• Broward County Cultural Affairs Division
• The Brown Foundation
• The Chicago Community Trust
• The Cleveland Foundation
• The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
• The Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta
• The Cooke Foundation, Ltd.
• Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County
• The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
• The Dayton Hudson Foundation
• Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
• Duke Energy Foundation
• The Eugene and Agnes Meyer Foundation
• The Fannie Mae Foundation
• Fidelity Foundation
• The Fleishhacker Foundation
• The Flinn Foundation
• The Fondren Foundation
• The Ford Foundation
• Fulton County Arts Council
• The Foundation for the Carolinas
• The Fund for the Arts
• The GAR Foundation
• The General Mills Foundation
• The George Gund Foundation
• Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund
• The Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
• The Hall Family Foundation
• The Harold K.L. Castle Foundation

• The Hawaii Community Foundation
• The Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
• The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
• Houston Endowment
• The James Irvine Foundation
• The John P. Murphy Foundation
• The Joyce Foundation
• The Kirkpatrick Foundation
• The Kulas Foundation
• Major Performing Arts Board for the Australia Council
• The Marin Community Foundation
• The Mary and Dan Dent Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation
• Massachusetts Cultural Council
• The Meadows Foundation
• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• The Merrick Foundation
• Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund
• Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council
• Mid-America Arts Alliance
• Mississippi Arts Commission
• The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
• Nebraska Arts Council
• The Nord Family Foundation
• The Oklahoma Arts Council
• The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
• The Peter Kiewit Companies Foundation
• The Pew Charitable Trusts
• Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative
• Phoenix Suns
• The Rockefeller Foundation
• The San Francisco Foundation
• Target Stores
• Texas Commission on the Arts
• The Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust
• The Wallace Foundation
• The Walter and Elise Haas Fund
• 4Culture