The Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County believes that a lively and diverse cultural environment benefits our communities by creating great places to live, deepening our relationships with each other and stimulating the economy. Your organization plays a key role in building our vibrant communities an we are here to support your organization's mission.
Here are some of the benefits that we offer our members:
Helping Build the Capacity of Your Organization
Weekly E-Blasts
Sign up here for our weekly e-blast to receive information about grants, workshops and advocacy issues that are relevant to cultural organizations in our region.
Professional Development Workshops:
Each year we offer a series of topical workshops designed to support organizations and artists. In addition CAFC hosts meetings to foster cooperation and innovation between the constituencies we serve. For information about upcoming workshops, click here
Marketing Roundtable—encouraging cooperation, collaboration and shared learning
• A place where marketing professionals and/or executive directors come together.
- • Hear speakers to build knowledge/share information.
- • Create cooperative projects for mutual benefit and cross promotion.
- • For information about our next Marketing Roundtable contact Laura Roberts at Laura@CulturalAllianceFC.org.
Executive Directors Network
The purpose of the Executive Directors Network is to strengthen the working relationships of the regional cultural leaders by providing an opportunity to:
- • Get to know one another.
- • Share what all are doing and recognize complimentary purposes.
- • Get feedback from peers on challenges you are facing.
- • Discover ways to conserve resources by working cooperatively.
- • Keep abreast of important issues that affect your organization.
- • Learn about important Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County initiatives.
- • Strengthen the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County by becoming a partner in
the organization’s success.
The Executive Directors Network meets quarterly and is open to organization members of the Cultural Alliance who have an executive director or a general manager on staff.
For information about the next meeting please contact Ryan Odinak at Ryan@CulturalAllianceFC.org
Helping Market Your Organization's Events
Unified Regional Marketing: We've built a brand for Fairfield County Arts and Culture—FCBuzz.org. Find FCBuzz.org at this link.
- • Advertise events posted by you 24 hours a day on this unique online calendar.
- • Post a directory listing about your organization with a description, logo and link.
- • Get events featured on the Web site.
- • Promote your fundraising events on the “Special Events” feature section.
Weekly E-Buzz Events Newsletter—E-mailed to audiences throughout the region.
- • A weekly list of all the events going on in the area that are listed on FCBuzz.org
- • Featured events each week.
- • Featured Organizations eacg week.
- • Sign up here to receive our weekly events newsletter.
- FCBuzz Goes Live Events—Coming face to face to promote the Web site
- • Visits to local events to share information about FCBuzz.org.
- • Video Correspondent at your events and promotional videos shared with you.
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Insert in the Fairfield County Business Journal—FCBuzz/Arts & Culture of Fairfield County:
- • 55,000 readers a week see the section promoting your events.
- • Press releases sent directly to newspaper via fcbuzz@westfairinc.com.
- • Printed weekly calendar of events taken directly from FCBuzz.org, no additional posting.
- • Members featured in weekly Cultural Alliance Column.
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Venu Magazine Feature
- • FCBuzz is a regular feature in Fairfield County’s glossy Arts Magazine promoting organizations
WPKN Radio Spots
• Each week our member organizations' upcoming events are highlighted in a five minute radio spot on WPKN.
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FCBuzz.org Logos posted for promotion—showing a unified approach
- • Alliance members work as a team to market their unified brand.
- • FCBuzz.org logos posted on member Web sites to show alliance.
- • FCBuzz.org logos used on collaborative marketing tools—pamphlets, etc.
- Cooperative Advertising Discounts—leveraging your expenses with other organizations
- • Metro-North group advertising purchasing for lower rates.
- • Cooperative sponsorship at festivals.
- • Other group buys being explored—bring us your ideas and we’ll help.
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Peer Advisory Network—one to one help when your organization needs it.
- • Targeted help, when you need it from professionals in the field.
- • Only $100 for 8 hours of advising through a partnership with the CCT.
- • One-to-One Consultations with our staff to help you access the resources you need. For application, guidelines and forms click here.
Fundraising on FCBuzz:
Members of the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County are able to increase their fundraising visibility by promoting their events through a dedicated section on FCBuzz.org. Fundraiser events also receive weekly promotion on the “Featured Events” section of FCBuzz.org.
Display Space:
The Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County helps to promote our member organizations by making brochure display space available in public access racks here at our offices and gallery space. To have your brochure displayed, drop a bunch off at our offices: Cultural Alliance, 70 Sanford Street, Fairfield, CT 06824
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Advocacy—we’re in your corner
- • Understanding the issues and communicating them to you in a timely way.
- • Serving on advocacy boards to represent your interests.
- • Speaking out in regional, state and national forums on issues important to you.
- • Organizing Calls to Action. Visit the advocacy page of our Web site at this link.
Visit this link and join today!
Resources for Organizations:
- Community Fundraising Calendar
The Center for Nonprofit Excellence has a great new resource for Fairfield County nonprofits, a community fundraising calendar. The purpose of the calendar is to help nonprofits plan their fundraising events so that organizations are not holding their events on the same day. With their calendar you can:
• Check to see if a date is available.
• Enter your organization's fundraising events.
• Search for upcoming events, by town and date.
You may view the Community Calendar and submit your fundraising events at this this link.
For more resources visit this link.
