As the local arts agency for Macon-Bibb County, Macon Arts Alliance provides development services to local arts organizations. Momentum for the Arts is an innovative approach to capacity building developed by the Georgia Center for Nonprofits. As the local host organization, Macon Arts Alliance helped leverage local, state and national support in order to increase the impact and sustainability of arts non-profits in Central Georgia.
Organizations that participate will attend monthly training meetings and work one-on-one with a consultant to put together:
A comprehensive organizational assessment
A strategic plan
An evaluation plan
A development plan
and other tools
Monthly workshops cover topics vital to the success of non-profits, such as:
Board engagement and development
Program design and project selection
Evaluation planning
Engaging funders
The Macon cohort includes: Eatonton-Putnam Arts Foundation; Friends of the Historic Douglass Theatre Complex; gloATL; Jazz Association of Macon; Macon Arts Alliance; Macon Film Festival; Milledgeville Baldwin County Allied Arts; Museum of Arts and Sciences; The 567 Center for Renewal; Theatre Macon; and, Tubman African American Museum.
2014 Momentum Funding Partners
Georgia Council for the Arts
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area
Knox Foundation
Creel Foundation
Trustees of the Academy of Richmond County
National Endowment for the Arts
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits
Additional information about Momentum is available at http://www.gcn.org/Momentum-for-the-Arts and http://www.gaarts.org/8-news/61-gca-art-of-ga-se-announcement.