Community Cultural Development and the Arts

• The National Park Service is converting the former North Truro Air Force Base into a unique setting for research, learning, and collaboration between organizations working in the arts, sciences, and the environment. Community Partners Consultants, in conjunction with Heritage Partners, works closely with the Cape Cod National Seashore on project planning, community involvement, the development process, and project implementation for the proposed Highlands Center for the arts and environment.
  
  
• Leveraging Investments in Creativity is a ten-year national effort to support artists and communities by encouraging new work, creative work environments, and expansion of knowledge in the field. Community Partners is leading the artists space component to create a national network of innovators, establish productive partnerships with organizations involved in community development and neighborhood revitalization, and assist in building a national online clearinghouse of information.
  
  
• Artists for Humanity works with at-risk youth to bridge economic, racial and social divisions by giving them paid employment in the arts. Community Partners’ business plan for this organization will help them achieve their goal of financial self-sustainability and identify key businesses and program opportunities for their new headquarters in Boston’s Fort Point Channel.
  
  
• The Boston Foundation established their Arts in Community Initiative to strengthen the arts as a community-building tool in Boston’s low-income neighborhoods. Community Partners evaluated this program to assess its effectiveness and helped coordinate the grantees to share the lessons they learned.
  
  
• Creating and managing the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanity’s Cultural Facilities Technical Assistance Program provided technical assistance, funding, and education for the development of cultural facilities in the Commonwealth.
  
  
• Developing and facilitating a regional conference on behalf of the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporation entitled Broadening Our Vision: Connecting the Arts and Community Development enabled leaders in the arts, community development, and foundations to identify issues of common concern, devise solutions to common problems, and set a stage for future partnerships.

Exploring the Arts, Sciences, and Environment at the Highlands Center

Artists for Humanity teen mural in South Station, Boston