Colorado Business Committee for the Arts (CBCA) advocates for arts and culture in Colorado because we want to live, work, laugh, and create in a society where beauty, community, and creativity are valued and celebrated. We know that arts and culture are not only drivers of our economy but drivers of connections in our homes, neighborhoods, and across our state. We want our communities to be happy, healthy, and safe, but also full of wonder and curiosity and be eager to engage with one another. Saying YES to arts and culture is how that happens. CBCA is proud to support our entire creative ecosystem.
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About Colorado Business Committee for the Arts (CBCA)
As an advocate, convener, and connector, CBCA's mission is to advance Colorado's creative economy by connecting business and the arts. This mission is accomplished through arts engagement, advocacy, research, training, and volunteerism. CBCA is guided by the following core values: creativity, collaboration, education, inclusiveness, and cultural vitality.
While CBCA was originally founded in 1985 with a focus on corporate philanthropy and business support for nonprofit cultural organizations, the scope has evolved to uplift the mutually beneficial intersection of arts and business in Denver and across Colorado. Our work has expanded to serve the Colorado arts community broadly, including individual artists, creative entrepreneurs and a variety of arts-based businesses.
CBCA advances Colorado’s creative economy by connecting business and the arts.
In 1984, Denver developer John Madden, Jr. brought together a distinguished, forward-thinking group of Colorado business leaders who believed in the importance and value of arts and culture. They were inspired by David Rockefeller’s national Business Committee for the Arts, which was formed in 1967 by a group of business leaders committed to demonstrating corporate social responsibility through supporting the arts. Under this model, CBCA was created in 1985 with the mission to educate, motivate and recognize business support for and participation in the arts in Colorado.
CBCA was originally founded with a strong focus on the inherent benefits of nonprofit arts on the business community with services and programming primarily serving the private sector. CBCA has evolved to serve the mutually beneficial intersection of arts and business with industry-leading programs, trainings and cultural opportunities for members and the broad community. The organization’s work has also expanded to include the for-profit creative industries with programming, resources and professional development for individual artists and creative enterprises.
CBCA remains a successful membership organization of leading Colorado companies, individuals, artists and arts organizations.
Organization name
Colorado Business Committee for the Arts
other names
CBCA
1985
Tax id (EIN)
74-2368958
Category
Arts, Culture & Humanities
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
1325 S. Colorado Blvd. Suite 605Denver County, CO, US
CO, US
