WHAT IS ARTS BOARD MATCH?

The Arts & Business Council has an exciting new project to IGNITE arts boards with new members and new vitality. Arts Board Match will infuse Miami’s arts community with hundreds of new members which will raise the standard of leadership and service, increase diversity and provide cultural groups with new sources of donations, income and outreach. With these new resources in place the arts will have a new avenue to recruit qualified board members from the corporate and private sector.  Imagine hundreds of  business professionals channeled onto arts boards to LIGHT THEM UP with new ideas.  Using modern technology, the internet and social  media we will get business involved, one board member at a time. Visualize the opportunity for each interested business person to find the board where they feel a personal passion and commitment. No more boredom here!  Arts Board Match will be powerful and transformative by REIGNITING and revitalizing the boards of arts organizations with our innovative approach to community involvement. Accompany us on this journey as we BLAZE a new path to circumvent archaic board recruitment strategies.  Arts Board Match will revolutionize the way in which potential board members find their perfect MATCH.

Business people will be matched with their perfect board by using the new and unique online platform and multi-functional website being custom     designed for the project. With our new website, www.ArtsBoardMatch.org  the path to board involvement will be one click away.  Using a ground-breaking and innovate technological platform we will be able to harness the power of the internet to connect nonprofit arts boards needing board   members to business professionals who wish to serve in these important leadership roles.  Our powerful search capability will be able to make board matches across boundaries of skill, giving capabilities, ethnicity, age and geography. The site will give business professionals and entrepreneurs easy access to a resource of important information about non-profit boards and highlight the benefits of joining a board.  Arts organizations will be featured on the site with a Board Snapshot listing their board requirements, mission and programs.

Visit www.ArtsBoardMatch.org today! 

Top 5 reasons to join a board

1. 1. Build valuable networks and relationships for business development and outreach with fellow board members and the organization’s donors and members
2. 2. Arts board members work directly with artists and the creative class impacting their own vision and creativity. Learn to look at the world and your business in a different way. Given the stresses and distractions of the job market, board members value their experiences now more than ever.
3. 3. Business professionals broaden their leadership skills by serving as consultants to nonprofit organizations and gain first-hand knowledge of the region's cultural landscape. Grow as a leader the only way you can – through experience!
4. 4. Dynamic partnerships that bridge the arts and business sectors strengthen the cultural and economic vitality of the Greater Miami Region.
5. 5. Develop new skills and new contacts that will increase your value to your company by working directly with artists and arts executives and contribute in a meaningful way to strengthening an important organization.