Corporate Memberships
8 Reasons Why Your Business Should Partner with the Center for the Arts:
1. Recruit Talent
Employees want to live and work in a vibrant community. When you partner
with the Center for the Arts, you will be supporting local theater, music, dance and art, which helps to make the community more attractive to current and future employees.
2. Put your company in the spotlight.
The Center for the Arts will help you build Market Share, enhance your brand and reach new
customers. Celebrating the arts is a way to build a powerful presence and engage
with multiple stakeholders quickly and effectively. Performances, festivals and more allow you to reach customers and are venues to entertain prospective and current clients. Businesses agree that arts increase name recognition and offers networking opportunities to develop new
business.
3. Advance corporate objectives and strategies
The Center for the Arts will help you get your message across in engaging ways. The arts can educate the public or your employees about core business issues such as product safety or making healthy choices by using live theatre to educate school children about electric safety or making healthy choices.
4 Foster critical thinking
Did you know that creativity is among the top applied skills sought by employers? More often than not, business leaders say creativity is of high importance when hiring. The arts are about critical thinking, solving and reframing problems and facts in ways that reveal insights and opportunities. Music, creative writing, drawing and dance provide skills sought by employers of the third millennium. In fact, 72% of companies that give to the arts recognize that it stimulates creative thinking, problem solving and team building.
5 . Engage Your Employees.
The arts challenge employees to be their best. Whether it’s showing off their own creative talent in an company art show or battle of a band -- or volunteering for a local arts group -- the arts let your employees use their current skills and develop new ones. For instance, sitting on an art organization’s board is great training to sitting on your company’s board. In fact, studies show that millennials who frequently participate in workplace volunteer activities are more likely to be proud, loyal and satisfied employees.
6. Embrace diversity and team building
The arts create an environment that blends backgrounds, ethnicities and cultures. Through exhibitions, performances and workshops, the arts provide opportunities for employees to grapple with workplace concerns and become more familiar with their coworkers in the next cubicle or around the world. What’s more, committing to the arts lets people inside and outside your company know that you value and promote innovative thinking and a creative culture.
7. Say thanks
The arts are a great way to show you appreciate your employees. Providing tickets to events, performances, and other arts experiences are the perfect way to inspire employees and say “thanks.”
8. Contribute to the economy and to quality of life
When you partner with the Center for the Arts, you partner with the Harford County and the surrounding region. The Center for the Arts is essential to the health
and vitality of local neighborhoods, towns, the state of Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic area. It enhances community development; create jobs; attract new businesses; draw tourism dollars; and create an environment that attracts skilled, educated workers Nationally, the nonprofit arts and culture industry generates $166.2 billion in economic activity every
year—$63.1 billion in spending by organizations and an additional $103.1 billion in event-related spending by their audiences
Now that you’re armed with 8 reasons for your business to partner with the Center for the Arts, it’s time to use them! We welcome you to plug into a network of those who appreciate performing arts in the region. These partnerships help support a lineup of programing excellence, while helping businesses achieve marketing, outreach and philanthropic goals!
Contact us at 443-567-5216 or info@harfordcfa.org
1. Recruit Talent
Employees want to live and work in a vibrant community. When you partner
with the Center for the Arts, you will be supporting local theater, music, dance and art, which helps to make the community more attractive to current and future employees.
2. Put your company in the spotlight.
The Center for the Arts will help you build Market Share, enhance your brand and reach new
customers. Celebrating the arts is a way to build a powerful presence and engage
with multiple stakeholders quickly and effectively. Performances, festivals and more allow you to reach customers and are venues to entertain prospective and current clients. Businesses agree that arts increase name recognition and offers networking opportunities to develop new
business.
3. Advance corporate objectives and strategies
The Center for the Arts will help you get your message across in engaging ways. The arts can educate the public or your employees about core business issues such as product safety or making healthy choices by using live theatre to educate school children about electric safety or making healthy choices.
4 Foster critical thinking
Did you know that creativity is among the top applied skills sought by employers? More often than not, business leaders say creativity is of high importance when hiring. The arts are about critical thinking, solving and reframing problems and facts in ways that reveal insights and opportunities. Music, creative writing, drawing and dance provide skills sought by employers of the third millennium. In fact, 72% of companies that give to the arts recognize that it stimulates creative thinking, problem solving and team building.
5 . Engage Your Employees.
The arts challenge employees to be their best. Whether it’s showing off their own creative talent in an company art show or battle of a band -- or volunteering for a local arts group -- the arts let your employees use their current skills and develop new ones. For instance, sitting on an art organization’s board is great training to sitting on your company’s board. In fact, studies show that millennials who frequently participate in workplace volunteer activities are more likely to be proud, loyal and satisfied employees.
6. Embrace diversity and team building
The arts create an environment that blends backgrounds, ethnicities and cultures. Through exhibitions, performances and workshops, the arts provide opportunities for employees to grapple with workplace concerns and become more familiar with their coworkers in the next cubicle or around the world. What’s more, committing to the arts lets people inside and outside your company know that you value and promote innovative thinking and a creative culture.
7. Say thanks
The arts are a great way to show you appreciate your employees. Providing tickets to events, performances, and other arts experiences are the perfect way to inspire employees and say “thanks.”
8. Contribute to the economy and to quality of life
When you partner with the Center for the Arts, you partner with the Harford County and the surrounding region. The Center for the Arts is essential to the health
and vitality of local neighborhoods, towns, the state of Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic area. It enhances community development; create jobs; attract new businesses; draw tourism dollars; and create an environment that attracts skilled, educated workers Nationally, the nonprofit arts and culture industry generates $166.2 billion in economic activity every
year—$63.1 billion in spending by organizations and an additional $103.1 billion in event-related spending by their audiences
Now that you’re armed with 8 reasons for your business to partner with the Center for the Arts, it’s time to use them! We welcome you to plug into a network of those who appreciate performing arts in the region. These partnerships help support a lineup of programing excellence, while helping businesses achieve marketing, outreach and philanthropic goals!
Contact us at 443-567-5216 or info@harfordcfa.org
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