Professional Development Fund for Emerging Leaders of Color
February 14th, 2008 at 09:37am Rebecca Borden
Deadline for applications is 5:00 pm (CST) February 20.
Americans for the Arts has received generous support from the Joyce Foundation to re-grant Professional Development Funds to emerging arts leaders of color from the Great Lakes region. Grant dollars will be used to partially offset the costs for 12 exceptional emerging arts leaders to attend Arts Advocacy Day in Washington, DC (March 31–April 1, 2008), the Annual Convention in Philadelphia (June 20–22, 2008), and the National Arts Marketing Project (NAMP) Conference in Houston (November 9–12, 2008). In order for our sector to remain healthy and vibrant, we need to ensure that we are identifying and retaining young professionals within our workforce. Based upon recommendations from the Emerging Leader Council, Americans for the Arts has been working to identify ways that emerging leaders can fully participate in national meetings and events for their own professional development and so they can connect with the broader community of arts professionals from across the country. Additionally, if the arts are to continue to thrive and remain relevant to the communities they serve, we need to actively cultivate, expand, and support talented, culturally diverse emerging leaders. Therefore, this Professional Development Fund has been designed to target a strategic segment of our workforce: emerging arts leaders of color. The funds are further restricted to young professionals from the Great Lakes region due to Joyce Foundation’s funding reach.
For more information about this program, including eligibility requirements, selection criteria and application materials, click here.
For questions about this program, please contact Rebecca Borden, manager of professional development at Americans for the arts at 202.371.2830 or by email rborden@artsusa.org.
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