CityBeat on Us!

John Fox at CityBeat reported on us this week! We just finished a first-in-the-nation communications research initiative on building more support for arts & culture and he's posted a really nice summary of our just-released report: The Arts Ripple Effect: A Research-Based Strategy to Build Shared Responsibility for the Arts.

"The Fine Arts Fund has released the results of a year-long study intended to start the process of building more collective responsibility in Greater Cincinnati for the arts. Despite the general public’s longstanding support for arts and culture in their communities, charitable giving to and public funding of the arts struggle to keep up with demand nationally and locally — and this study was undertaken to try to “change the conversation” here about the arts as a shared public good and to motivate Cincinnatians to increase support."

You can read the full article here.