Reports on CYD Funding from Mass Cultural Council and CYD National Partnership with Creative Generation

Three new reports on funding for creative youth development work: Mass Cultural Council has released Read Equity in Funding: Perspectives from the Field of Creative Youth Development During COVID-19, and the CYD National Partnership has released Building Pathways to Funding: A Strategy Towards Expanding Funding for the Creative Youth Development Field and Mapping Skill to Will: Approaches to Funding Creative Youth Development in the United States.

Throughout the summer, Mass Cultural Council hosted weekly, national calls for the Creative Youth Development (CYD) field. Major themes that surfaced in those calls included the issues of equity and funding, which led Mass Cultural Council to focus several national calls on equity in the funding of CYD work. Their takeaway was that funders’ work would be more effective if they worked together with the field as collaborators, offering thought partnership and finding ways to innovate practice. They’ve compiled their findings from these conversations into a report on Equity in CYD Funding. Read Equity in Funding: Perspectives from the Field of Creative Youth Development During COVID-19 on Mass Cultural Council’s website.

As part of the Creative Youth Development National Partnership’s effort to help CYD practitioners and funders better understand how their work fit together, as well as fit within the general funding landscapes of arts/culture and education/youth development, the Partnership’s  National Action Blueprint team has created two briefs with actionable tools for CYD practitioners and CYD funders to effectively partner with each other. Read Building Pathways to Funding: A Strategy Towards Expanding Funding for the Creative Youth Development Field and Mapping Skill to Will: Approaches to Funding Creative Youth Development in the United States on the CYD National Partnership website.

Published: August 12, 2020