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\"BallotBox2\"Over a two month period last year, TRG Arts and Engaging Matters partnered on a series of posts examining relationship building as the foundation of effective fundraising, marketing, and community engagement. (Relationships All the Way Down<\/a>) Coincidentally, in the midst of that series, voters in Cuyahoga County overwhelmingly approved (by a 3:1 margin! Yes, you are reading that correctly.) the renewal of a tobacco tax specifically earmarked for arts funding. (Issue 8 Backers Declare Victory<\/a>) Getting nearly 75% of voters to approve of anything is almost incomprehensible. That level of approval of tax money for the arts is for some in the U.S. nearly unthinkable.<\/strong> While there were many factors at play in that spectacular victory, one is certainly Cuyahoga Arts and Culture’s commitment to community engagement and, by definition, relationship building.<\/p>\n

So, to fundraising, marketing, and community engagement we must add advocacy to the list of arts management functions dependent upon forming meaningful connections with individuals and group. (This is, of course, in no way a conceptual breakthrough. This is the nature of the political process and many, including me, have been talking about this in the arts for years.)<\/p>\n

I am in no way qualified to discuss what happened in the Cleveland area. However, my friend and colleague, Karen Gahl-Mills, who is Executive Director of Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, has agreed to participate in our spring follow up to last fall’s relationship series. I look forward to learning more about how CAC built the good will to support this stunning victory and what the plans are for the future.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

Engage!<\/p>\n

Doug<\/p>\n

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Fundraising, marketing, community engagement, and advocacy are all about relationship building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Public Policy and Community Engagement\u2013more on the imperative of relationship building","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,13,16,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-4374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-principles","7":"tag-arts","8":"tag-community-engagement","9":"tag-public-policy","10":"tag-relationships","11":"entry","12":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G6h9-18y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4499,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/engage\/2016\/04\/relationships-and-public-policy\/","url_meta":{"origin":4374,"position":0},"title":"Relationships and Public Policy","author":"Doug Borwick","date":"April 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"by Karen Gahl-Mills This post is part of a series in conjunction with TRG Arts on developing relationships with both new communities and existing stakeholders through artistic programming, marketing and fundraising, community engagement, and public policy. 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