Next NAMP Workshop:
Secure and Keep Your Corporate Sponsor
Tuesday, September 9 2008
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities,
938 Lafayette St in New Orleans.


Featuring Alice Zimet, founder of Arts & Business Partners.

This workshop will illustrate how to build meaningful bridges between a nonprofit and a sponsor’s sales and marketing needs. Today, corporations and nonprofits must be smarter in how they give and receive limited sponsorship marketing dollars. Visibility is no longer enough, and smart companies and savvy nonprofits can use sponsorship to meet a business need to deliver measurable results. Attendees will learn to think strategically and use hands-on techniques to secure and keep corporate sponsors.

Here are some comments from attendees of previous National Arts Marketing Project Workshops:

• A wealth of great info packed into a day.
• SOOOO USEFUL.
• Probably the most efficient use of my time in a long time. Awesome!
• The presenter was excellent. She got me really thinking.

Presented by Alice Zimet, founder of Arts & Business Partners, and a 25 year veteran and primary architect of how how arts groups and corporations work together to deliver benefits to both partners.

Fee: $30 for current Arts Council members, $35 for all others. Includes light breakfast and catered lunch.
Please RSVP to 504-523-1465 or via email

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art. Additional funding provided by The RosaMary Foundation.

 

 

Commerate the Arts Council's trip to the Norfolk Bayou Boogaloo by purchasing a limited edition signed and numbered Bayou Boogaloo poster, created by New Orleans artist Darrin Butler! These posters are 18'x24', and are limiited to an edition of 150. Darrin is generously donating $20 of each poster sold to the Arts Council of New Orleans.

In late June, twenty four local artists and roughly 1,000 pieces of their artwork headed up to Norfolk, Virginia for the 19th Annual Bayou Boogaloo and Cajun Food Festival The result of many months of planning and coordinating between the Arts Council of New Orleans and Norfolk Festevents, this “take-the-show-on-the-road” trip is part of the Arts Council’s aggressive strategy for promoting the cultural economy of New Orleans while providing viable avenues for artists to bring their creative works to the marketplace.

To read our blog on our trip to Norfolk, check out the Arts Business Program blog

Click here for photos from the 2008 Bayou Boogaloo!

Help support the Arts Council by purchasing a limited edition, hand-signed Bayou Boogaloo poster created by New Orleans artist Darrin Butler. 

This year's Community Arts Awards Patron Party and Luncheon were a fabulous success. Arts Council patrons joined local and national celebrities in recognizing honorees for their enduring and significant contributions to the arts - the lifeblood of our community. Continued »

The Arts Council was pleased to partner with Synovate, a global market research company with offices in 51 countries, during their 2008 convention held in New Orleans in late April. Known as the most curious company in the world, Synovate’s interest in our local New Orleans artists did not disappoint!  Continued »

The Arts Council of New Orleans is excited to be working with some of the area’s most talented visual artists to create works of art to be placed throughout New Orleans. In collaboration with the Joan Mitchell Foundation ., twenty-one artists will receive $25,000 to create public art and to rebuild their artistic careers. Through the 2008 New Orleans Art in Public Places Commissions, artists from Louisiana and Mississippi who were affected by Katrina or Rita were eligible to apply. The Call to Artists was initially for ten commissions, but due to the extraordinary response, the artistic diversity and the high quality of the proposals, the opportunity was expanded to twenty-one commissions funded by the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Recipients include the following artists: Continued »

The Arts Council is pleased to announce our partnership with Americans for the Arts to bring their acclaimed National Arts Marketing Project to New Orleans. Beginning on March 18th, and continuing with six events through September, this project features national speakers focusing on topics such as Creating a Marketing Plan, Attracting and Keeping Corporate Sponsorship, Finding New Audiences, Arts Advocacy and the like.

All workshops build upon NAMP’s ten year record of success in helping organizations better understand the marketplace, create aggressive audience development programs, increase earned income, and to further develop your marketing expertise. The culmination of this series is the National Arts Marketing Convention, to be held this year in Houston, TX on November 9-12. As part of our agreement with Americans for the Arts, the Arts Council has secured 20 scholarships to the National Convention. Detailed information on each workshop is listed below.  Continued »

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