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Cultural Partners Connect: A Slack Channel for the Cultural Partners Network

Join your peers on ArtsFund’s Slack Channel for Cultural Partners, Cultural Partners Connect! Cultural Partners Connect is an online professional networking space for members of the Cultural Partners Network to connect, collaborate, and share resources.

Cultural Partners Connect is open to arts and cultural professionals at all levels affiliated with ArtsFund’s Cultural Partners Network.

Cultural Partners Connect is moderated by third party Moderators, contracted by ArtsFund.

We hope Cultural Partners Connect supports you and your organization’s work to build a healthy, equitable and creative community.

Benefits:

  • Peer-to-peer connection
  • Resource-sharing and learning among Cultural Partners through various focus areas, such as youth-serving organizations, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) leaders, and small, medium, and large organizations.
  • Space for collaboration and partnerships between Cultural Partners toward audience growth and development.
  • A shared library, repository of best practices, recommendations, resources, and policies.
  • Space to seek advice and opportunities to support your organization.

Cultural Partners Connect Channels

Cultural Partners Connect includes both general and focused channels for conversations and engagement with peers. The network is an online place to ask questions and share best practices, recommendations, resources, and policies on various focus areas with your colleagues across the sector. Specific channels include:

Private Channels:

  • Executive Leadership Channel

  • Middle-Management Channel

  • Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) Professionals Channel

Opt-In Channels

  • Budget size channels (including “Small”, “Medium”, & “Large)

  • Accessibility Channel

  • Youth serving organization Channel

  • DEI Channel

  • LGBTQ+ Channel

Open Channels

  • Orientation Channel

  • Job Postings/Opportunities Channel

  • Announcement Channel

  • Events Channel

  • Resource Library

 

For more information on the channels and their content, please visit our Channel Outline

Community Guidelines

To ensure a safe online community, ArtsFund has established Community Guidelines for all Cultural Partners Connect participants to adhere to. We believe that the arts bring people with different experiences together and that convening is essential for healthy communities, promoting equity by centering those most impacted by systemic oppression, including Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), LGBTQ+, and people with disabilities. We developed the community guidelines intend to fulfill this mission.

Before signing-up for Cultural Partners Connect, please review the guidelines so that we can maintain an inclusive and professional shared space for community, conversation, networking, and resource sharing.

To read the full Community Guidelines, please visit our Community Guidelines document

To Join

To join the Cultural Partners Connect, please read the Community Guidelines and then fill out this brief form. Once you submit your form, you will receive an email within 2 business days inviting you to log into Slack as a member. Please share this invitation to any of your colleagues.

For questions or more information, please contact CPN@artsfund.org.