Arts Midwest Archives

Arts Midwest believes that creativity has the power to inspire and unite humanity. Based in Minneapolis, we grow, gather, and invest in creative organizations and communities throughout our nine-state region and beyond.

Building a Healthy Arts Organization

This framework for considering internal and external goals, bound by strategic focus, is a model for healthy nonprofits. Balance investments in mission, infrastructure, culture, and relationships to build a sustainably strong organization.

The focus is on a group of people sitting at a long table in a session room, looking at the camera, and close up and out of focus there is a person gesturing and looking forward.

Healthy Approaches to Board Governance

Nonprofit boards are described as either working or governing, with members playing dual roles in shared leadership. This post will help you think about the roles your board plays, and how to optimize your board to be effective and helpful.

A plant sprouting from a pile of pennies and various coins

What Drives Your Revenue?

Developing strategies to handle your organization's mix of revenue sources will enable you to hone your capacities in a way that strengthens your resource engine. This tool offers insight into the realities and challenges of revenue mix.

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Strategy Screens: Asking the Right Questions to Make the Right Decisions

Using a strategy screen can help you identify whether a potential new opportunity is right for your organization. This article shows how to evaluate whether new initiatives or existing programs serve a purpose that aligns with your mission.

Two young people dance together in the center of a drum circle.

61 Midwestern Arts + Culture Organizations Receive $1.5MM for COVID-19 Recovery

November 20, 2020

Arts and culture organizations across the Midwest region receive COVID-19 relief grants through the United States Regional Arts Resilience Fund.

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Pre-COVID-19, students take in a Huichol mural called “The New Awakening.” There are approximately 1,523,520 hand-laid beads in this work of art.

Thirty Midwestern Arts + Culture Organizations Receive $1.5MM for COVID-19 Recovery

September 2, 2020

Thirty Midwestern arts and culture organizations received new COVID-19 relief grants today from Arts Midwest through the United States Regional Arts Resilience Fund.