For more than 150 years, U.S. Bank has provided funds to help organizations throughout the United States build audiences for the arts, particularly among underserved communities.
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The Leadership Award was established by the Business Committee for the Arts to recognize individuals whose vision, commitment and leadership champion the arts.
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This video takes a look at the 2012 BCA award honorees as they discuss the importance of their businesses partnering with the arts.
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THE BCA TEN
Each year the BCA 10 honors ten businesses that have been exceptional partners with the arts. These companies set the standard of excellence and serve as role models for other businesses to follow. Join us and hear directly from three 2014 honorees about why they partner with the arts and learn how to create successful partnerships with the businesses in your community. The first guest will be Hallmark Cards, Inc., based in Kansas City, MO.
Each year the BCA 10 honors ten businesses that have been exceptional partners with the arts organizations in their communities. These companies set the standard of excellence and serve as role models for other businesses to follow. Hear directly from the 2012 honorees about how they support the arts and learn how to create successful partnerships with the businesses in your community.
Each year the BCA 10 honors ten businesses that have been exceptional partners with arts organizations in their communities. These companies set the standard of excellence and serve as role models for other businesses to follow. Hear directly from the 2011 honorees about how they support the arts and learn how to create partnerships with the businesses in your community.
Each year the BCA 10 honors ten businesses that have been exceptional partners with the arts. These companies set the standard of excellence and serve as role models for other businesses to follow. Hear directly from 2013 honorees about why they partner with the arts and learn how to create successful partnerships with the businesses in your community.
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The results are in. The arts are good for society (and business)
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Booz Allen Hamilton Finds Inspiration in the Arts
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An “Anywoman’s” View of Business and the Arts
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2014 Honoree -
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Frederic C. Hamilton
Chairman
The Hamilton Companies
Frederic C. Hamilton founded Hamilton Oil Corporation in the late 1960s and built it into an international oil company. He is now chairman of The Hamilton Companies, which is active in venture capital, private equity, oil and gas, real estate, mortgage lending, securities and acquisitions operations. He has been called one of America's oil pioneers.
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John Deere, Moline, IL
John Deere is the leading manufacturer of agricultural machinery in the world. The company supports the arts as part of its strategic goal to enhance quality of life and to be in a better position to attract and retain employees in the many communities in which it operates worldwide.
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Ms. Emily Peck
The Arts Are Part of the Solution
Posted by Nov 16, 2017
Ms. Emily Peck
To recognize the important role of the business community in advancing the arts, Americans for the Arts annually presents the BCA 10 awards celebrating ten businesses for their innovative partnerships with the arts. These businesses range in size and location but share a passion for engaging with the arts to advance their companies and communities; and from our work around the country, we know that they are not alone and that there is increased engagement from the business community in support of the arts. That is why it is not surprising to see that the 2017 edition of Giving in Numbers produced by CECP, in partnership with the Conference Board, showed an increase in arts funding from the corporate community between 2014 and 2016.
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Jessica Gaines
Behind the Business: Learning about the 2017 BCA 10 Honorees, Best Businesses Partnering with Arts in America
Posted by Sep 14, 2017
Jessica Gaines
On October 11, businesses of all types and sizes from all across the country—Vermont to Hawaii and eight states in between—will come together for the BCA 10 gala at the Central Park Boathouse in New York to be recognized by Americans for the Arts for their outstanding commitment to the arts. But WHO are these honorees? Learn more about their arts partnerships below including corporate performance groups, extensive art exhibits, and some fierce board leadership.
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Ms. Jordan Shue
A Rejuvenating Trip to GOLDEN Artist Colors, a Beating Heart of Arts & Biz
Posted by Aug 25, 2016
Ms. Jordan Shue
GOLDEN goes beyond supporting the arts, believing in the arts, or even investing in the arts. To them, they wouldn’t exist without the arts, without the artists who use their products, and without the innovators who challenge them to create new products that test traditional methods of painting and artmaking.
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Joe Ritchey
Public Art Spurs Economic Development
Posted by Sep 01, 2015
Joe Ritchey
From a purely business perspective, the arts in general and public art in particular are demonstrated spurs of economic development. This happy reality has proven true in my work as the Principal and sole employee of Prospective Inc., which is the exclusive leasing agent for the 4-million-square-foot office component of Reston Town Center, an internationally-recognized urban mixed-use development located in Reston, Virginia.
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Ms. Stacy Lasner
The Impact of the Arts in the Innovation Era
Posted by Oct 22, 2015
Ms. Stacy Lasner
In 1883, John Michael Kohler, who was in the business of making cast iron farm implements and cemetery crosses, looked at a watering trough and realized he could add four ornamental feet to transform it into the company’s first bathtub. 120 years later, that same innovative spark is what turned a simple dorm room project into Facebook, a $200 billion company that changed the world and ignited a new era in entrepreneurial innovation.
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Mr. Robert Lynch
Powerful and Surprising Arts and Business Partnerships: Enriching Workplaces and Communities Nationwide
Posted by Oct 22, 2015
Mr. Robert Lynch
Imagine that you are arriving to a job interview at a tech company. As you wait, you take a look around you, and notice beautiful, thought-provoking works of art displayed on the walls, plus sculptures in the public and outdoor spaces. Imagine working for a manufacturing firm, when one day you receive an announcement of an exciting new art contest for employees. Or, attending your national insurance firm's annual meeting, knowing that you'll soon be able to take the stage for a company-wide battle of the bands and sing and perform your heart out. In these three examples, you would actually be at Microsoft, Ford, or Aetna, respectively, but in reality it could be any one of thousands of businesses that are harnessing the power of the arts...because it is good for business.
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Amelia Gandara
Creativity: A Critical Element in Corporate Innovation
Posted by Sep 24, 2015
Amelia Gandara
My love for dance started at home. My mother danced ballet through high school, and I’m convinced she named me after a character from The Turning Pointe. By the time I was 5 years old, I was training with her same instructor at Yuma Ballet Academy where I remained until I graduate high school and joined my first company.
My path to science has a similar story. I’ve had an affinity for science ever since my aunt explained what it’s like to be an aerospace engineer. She sent me “A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawkings when I was just 10 years old and would share with me her dreams of working for NASA.
Looking back, it was my early exposure to both art and science that allowed me to grow up believing I could excel in any area. After dancing ballet professionally for a couple of years, I decided to enter university to become a chemical engineer. Perseverance and the drive for excellence, skills forged in dance training, made four years of a rigorous course load bearable.
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Kellyn Lopes
The results are in. The arts are good for society (and business)
Posted by Oct 30, 2014
Kellyn Lopes
Kellyn Lopes
A guest speaker in one of my graduate courses recently said, “94% of people don’t care about the arts.” While it may be true that a portion of people don’t actively seek out and participate in the arts, or consider themselves to be “artsy,” there is a significant relevance in understanding and “caring” about the role of the arts in society.
Instead, maybe 94% of people haven’t fully recognized the transformative power and intrinsic value of the arts in their communities…and their businesses.
So how do we measure the value of the arts?
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Ralph W. Shrader
Patrick O'Herron
Booz Allen Hamilton Finds Inspiration in the Arts
Posted by Aug 28, 2014
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Patrick O'Herron
Patrick O’Herron interviewing Dr. Ralph W. Shrader, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Booz Allen Hamilton.
1. Booz Allen Hamilton was a 2011 BCA 10: Best Businesses Partnering with the Arts in America honoree. Why does the company choose to support the arts?
The arts inspire, provoke thought, spur creativity, and connect us in a shared experience. These are also the essential qualities of an enduring, successful business–therefore, both as an institution and as individual employees, we find a natural affinity for the arts at Booz Allen. Corporate support helps make exhibitions and performances possible, and we find this to be a good way to give back to the communities in which we work and live.
2. How has the company’s support of the arts advanced business objectives?
Externally, there is a positive brand affinity and visibility that comes from association with respected museums and arts organizations, as well as favorable recognition in the community for helping to make possible quality exhibitions and performances.
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