ArtsFund provides the cultural sector a platform for sharing of resources, practices and perspective to expand its collective capacity to serve our overall community. Partnering with local, regional and national practitioners and thought leaders, ArtsFund’s convenings programs foster discussion and provide tools and training opportunities in direct response to the needs identified by regional arts organizations.

Past convenings

• Transforming through a Capacity Building Campaign (2024)

• Growing Audiences by the Playbook: Audience development strategy, from the sports arena to the arts arena (2024)

• Strategic Budgeting & Scenario Planning with the Nonprofit Finance Fund (2023)

• Grant Writing When You Don’t Have a Grants Team (2023)

• Engaging New Audiences: Research on Arts Organizations’ Attendance in Washington (2023)

• Designing with Accessibility in Mind (2022)

• Capital Campaign Readiness: Is it the Right Time? (2022)

• Digital Dilemmas: Q&A with Legal Expert (2021)

• Navigating Overwhelm (2021)

• Making the Case for the Social Impact of the Arts (2018)

• Setting the Table for More Diverse Nonprofit Boards (2018)

• Becoming Indispensable: A Community Engagement Workshop (2017)

• “What’s Behind the Curtain”—Audience & Donor Research (2016)

• Turning Data Into Action (2016)

• A three-part “board-building” webinar series with Bold Agenda

• Market Smarter: the Fundamentals of Google Analytics with Capacity Interactive

• Data Driven Donor Cultivation with TRG Arts