Arts Impact Consultancy:
Designing & Funding Programs to Widen Belonging
Arts for Social Cohesion’s consultancy helps cultural and arts organizations increase funding by centering social cohesion and belonging in their project design and funding narratives.
Many cultural arts organizations do powerful work that strengthens connection and collaboration across differences — but struggle to make that impact visible to funders. They may confuse their “How” (the arts project, the festival, the performance) with their “What” (widening whose background, perspective and experience is valued, who has agency, and who is heard).
ASC consultancy helps organizations differentiate artistic mechanism from social cohesion outcome — so they can design programs honing in on those impacts and tell those stories to funders in compelling ways.
ASC consultancy combines strategic project design with narrative crafting based on artful questions and nuanced listening to help organizations:
Design arts & cultural programs that explicitly build connection and collaboration across lines of difference.
Craft proposals that tell resonant stories that demonstrate social cohesion and relational outcomes.
ASC helps arts and culture organizations write proposals that are rigorous, emotionally resonant and that show relevance to the lived experiences of people served.
Build grant strategies that attract funders prioritizing community resilience and thriving.
Frame artistic work as a driver of social infrastructure to strengthen communities
Guy and Regie have been trusted as creative thought partners, project and proposal designers and grant evaluators for organizations making social change through bold artistic experience and commissions; Programs cultivating leadership through the arts for college & high school students; Diverse Jewish arts and culture; And visibility and development of Latinx arts and culture across the US’s Northeast, Mountain West and Puerto Rico.