PROFILES:
New England Foundation for the Arts
Rebecca Blunk, Executive Director Member States Mission Statement: ********** Through extensive funding, advocacy, and networking efforts, NEFA promotes the creation and distribution of the full range of artistic expression. NEFA functions as a grantmaker, program initiator, regional laboratory, project coordinator, developer of resources, and builder of creative partnerships among artists, arts organizations and funders. Each program and project that is brought to life at NEFA is created with the underlying goal of building a stronger and more dynamic infrastructure for the arts. NEFA celebrates New England and its characteristic values while playing a national role by distributing model programs, supporting international cultural exchange, and advocating access to the arts for everyone. All of NEFA's programs, projects, and initiatives are housed under two interrelated areas: Creation & Distribution, and Research & Learning. Activities in NEFA's Creation & Distribution arm exist to foster opportunity, excellence and accessibility for artists, arts organizations, and audiences. All of our commissioning and touring grant programs fall under Creation and Distribution. Projects and initiatives in the Research & Learning sector of NEFA help to build the intellectual assets of the New England cultural community in order to inform cultural decision-making and program development and to develop public understanding of how the arts contribute to the vitality of communities. All research, data-gathering and documentation activities at NEFA fall under Research & Learning. |