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About CPAc

The Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC) is a nonprofit arts and culture service agency dedicated to Northeast Ohio’s success by preserving and advancing its arts and culture sector. CPAC works to prove and promote our cultural assets’ extraordinary contributions to our economy, education and quality of life. We help arts and culture prosper by fostering best practices in business development, sound cultural policy and in-depth research.

 

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Share your passion, knowledge and know-how and join our online community. It’s fast, easy and full of benefits:

  • Be among the first to know about changing policies that affect the arts and culture sector
  • Learn new opportunities to strengthen your operations
  • Exchange ideas with other artists or community leaders
  • Become active in community affairs      More...

 Current News

The Creative Workforce Fellowship (CWF) Second Cycle:

The results are in!  Click here to see the 2010 Creative Workforce Fellows.  To learn more about the program, including details about the adjudication and selected fellows, click here.

Survey of Cuyahoga Arts and Culture Organizations and the Economic Recession:

CPAC has released its report on how local arts and culture nonprofits are faring in light of the economic recession.  This report contains survey data and a summary of the conversations that took place at May's Arts and Cultural Roundtable event.  Click here to view the report.

 

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Capacity Building

CPAC provides strategic assistance to individual artists and arts and culture organizations to advance their ability to deliver programs and services to the public.  Our programs include:

Click here to find out more about our capacity building programs...

Public Policy

CPAC advocates for arts and cultural public policy that sustains and cultivates Northeast Ohio's arts and cultural assets.

Click hear to read more about our public policy efforts...

Research

CPAC collects data, conducts ongoing research and provides information that communicates the value of arts and culture.

CPAC recently released the following report to assess the progress that has been made regionally since the release of the Northeast Ohio Arts and Culture Plan in May 2000:

Also available is the recent report of our constituent survey findings:

Click here to access our entire research database...