You might wonder what distinguishes a United Art Fund (UAF) from other funding organizations. A UAF connects workers and artists in a specific community. Through workplace-giving campaigns, a UAF provides employees of a campaign partner the opportunity to learn more about the arts in their community and to easily contribute to funding for their community arts and cultural programs. A campaign partner can be a corporation or a small business, a school or a university; it can also be a fellow arts, science, or cultural organization.
As Americans for the Arts tells it:
The UAF movement began in 1949, when civic leaders in Cincinnati, OH, and Louisville, KY, determined that community-wide campaigns, loosely based upon the United Way model, could raise substantially more money to provide ongoing operating support to their major arts institutions. Over the past 54 years, more than 100 communities across the country—both large and small—have established UAFs with more than 60 currently operating in the United States.
Based on his experience with United Art Funds in other cities, Dennis Cuneo of Toyota Motor Manufacturing introduced the idea to County Judge Nelson Wolff in 2003. That year, an area wide survey indicated that 70% of those surveyed would make a payroll deduction gift to a United Art Fund if given the opportunity.
To date, theFund has received donations from employees through over 60 campaign partners and provides financial operating support to 27 affiliate organizations.
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