Do you love the arts? Are you eager to help ensure that the arts thrive in Chicago?
By volunteering with the Arts & Business Council, you connect with Chicago’s exciting arts community in a very involving and tangible way while developing your own business leadership and problem-solving skills. Plus, you join a dynamic network of business and arts professionals doing important work in the city’s cultural community.
Volunteering for the arts enhances professional and personal development
- Practice your craft in a different field.
- Get back in touch with your entrepreneurial instincts.
- Hone your project management and team building skills.
- Represent your company in the community.
- Enjoy a new source of camaraderie and professional connection.
- Get involved and “give back” in a personally satisfying way.
- Make a difference.
A&BC’s services are designed to connect you, the skilled business sector volunteer, with Chicago-area nonprofit arts organizations. Our aim is to work with—and through—our business volunteers in order to serve as the Chicago arts community’s foremost source for consulting, training and board recruitment. Together, we help these groups address their organizational and management capacity needs as they develop and grow institutionally. Each year, A&BC’s corps of nearly 150 volunteers works with dozens of nonprofit arts groups in metro Chicago, including dance, theater and music performance organizations as well as arts education providers, museums, nonprofit galleries, literary organizations and cultural centers.
Employers
Encouraging your employees to volunteer with A&BC—either as a consultant or board member—is a powerful way to develop your next generation of leaders. Their presence in the community exposes them to both a wide network of professionals and an interesting array of “out-of-the-box” business challenges while expanding your company’s sphere of influence and good will.
A&BC Business Volunteer Opportunities:
Business Volunteers for the Arts (BVA)
Work on Consulting Projects with Arts Organizations
The BVA service recruits, trains and assigns experienced business professionals to work on pro bono consulting projects with small-to-medium sized nonprofit arts organizations throughout the Chicago metropolitan area.
On BOARD
Serve With Confidence on an Arts Organization Board
A twice-yearly training and matching/placement process for qualified business professionals interested in volunteering to serve on the board of a small-to-medium sized nonprofit arts organization in the Chicago area.