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These are resources throughout the Commission's Web site and from other entities that can assist in board development.

Consultant Services Program - Connects Arizona’s non-profit arts organizations with peer professionals in the field with specialties in areas such as organizational assessment, facilitation, board development, planning, marketing, understanding participation, accessibility, arts education program planning and assessment and more. Grants available for Consultant Services and Community Cultural Inventories. 

Program Evaluation and Assessment Tools for ongoing evaluation and assessment for programs.  This resource comes from the Arizona Commission on the Arts' Guide to Grants.

Peer Consultant Roster - Since 1991, the Peer Consulting Program has provided affordable and accessible consulting services to the state’s non-profit arts organizations and local arts agencies. The intention of this program is to make available the extensive knowledge and experience of these professionals to our constituents across the state.

Arts Learning Program The Arizona Commission on the Arts is committed to making the arts fundamental to education, particularly in programs that serve Pre- K-12 students, classroom teachers, arts specialists, teaching artists and administrators in school, after-school and summer/inter-session programs.

Literature Program The Arizona Commission on the Arts provides an array of grants, programs and services for writers and literary organizations.

State and Local Partnerships The Local Arts Development Program works in partnership to conceptualize, research, design and implement programs that have a long-term impact on a local level in underserved, ethnic, rural and emerging communities for organizations and individuals; and to develop programs to impact the work of the local arts agencies around the state. 

Performing Arts Program The Performing Arts Program at the Arizona Commission on the Arts serves the community by ensuring that the public has access to and benefits from the performing arts – dance, music, opera and theatre, as well as interdisciplinary events. The program acts as liaison to statewide, regional and national service organizations in the fields of dance, orchestral music, theatre and presentation.

Visual Arts Program The Arizona Commission on the Arts provides an array of grants, programs and services for visual artists and arts organizations.

Residency Roster This is not a comprehensive listing of Arizona artists. The Residency Roster is simply a compendium of artists in all disciplines, selected for their artistic quality, ability to communicate about their artform and their ability to carry out a residency. Each artist has been selected through a rigorous artistic review/interview by a panel of Arizona artists, educators and citizens before being accepted for inclusion in the Roster. Sponsoring organizations can use the Residency Roster as a resource for developing school and community programs.

Arizona Presenters Alliance The Arizona Presenters Alliance is a state wide service organization for the performing arts presenters in the state of Arizona. We are committed to communication, cost effective programming and touring of high artistic merit, professional growth and development, leadership, and advocacy for the presentation of the arts in Arizona.

Alliance for Audience a non-profit association, was incorporated in September, 2003 to serve as a “convention & visitors bureau for the arts” with a mission to engage new audiences while dramatically raising awareness of the breadth of the region’s arts and cultural offerings. Its name speaks to the shared goal of all arts and cultural organizations – to collaboratively grow audience. On November 15, 2004, Alliance for Audience launched its main project Showup.com.

Showup.com is the resource for what’s happening in theaters, museums, and outdoor venues throughout Greater Phoenix and beyond. It offers a comprehensive calendar of events, bringing together into a single convenient online site information that was, previously, scattered or not readily available at all. ShowUp.com lets you click or browse to find performances and exhibitions, classes and workshops, venues and artists. It even provides you with information about discount tickets (last-minute and otherwise). ShowUp.com tells you what’s showing up on stages and at cultural destinations, providing you with date, time, and even maps – so all you have to do is Show Up.

Organizational Resources - Links to resources such as assessment, arts listservs and e-newsletters, articles of interest, nonprofit resources and more.

For assistance, please contact Mitch Menchaca, Director of State and Local Partnerships at (602) 771-6529 or email mmenchaca@azarts.gov or contact Jaya Rao, Accessibility & State and Local Partnerships Coordinator at (602) 771-6532 or email jrao@azarts.gov.