Arts Capital | Atlanta is pooling resources—and asking funders to invest in the health of an entire creative ecosystem.

Host Mara Davis sits down with Laura Henninghausen to discover how Arts Capital — a collaborative representing over 200 arts nonprofits across Metro Atlanta — is building a pooled fund to drastically increase investment in local arts and culture. Henninghausen shares how partnering with the Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia (CFNEG) provides critical financial stewardship, fund protection through Capital Group and strategic guidance to support their ambitious fundraising goals.

Arts Capital Atlanta will soon distribute more than $1 million to Metro Atlanta arts organizations in an effort to strengthen the region’s creative ecosystem.

It’s the first year Arts Capital Atlanta will give out unrestricted funds to arts organizations; the Metro Atlanta nonprofit brings together organizations, funders and partners to research, raise and distribute funds.

CEO of Arts Capital | Atlanta, Laura Hennighausen, shares insights into how AC|A has managed collaboration, shared advocacy, pooled resources, and coordinated strategy to achieve stronger outcomes across the Metro Atlanta Arts sector and why philanthropy must treat collaboration as infrastructure worthy of investment.

Laura Hennighausen details how and why AC|A was formed and what it actually takes to move the needle on arts funding in the state.

Laura Hennighausen speaks with Atlanta News First about the consistent lack of funding for the Arts in Atlanta, as well as ongoing changes in funding preferences and new requirements from grantors.

Angela Harris of Dance Canvas speaks about the restoration of $1.7 mil in Arts and Culture funding to Fulton Co.’s FY25 budget for which organizations across the county have been fighting for since January.

In this in-depth article, Atlanta Magazine speaks to several organizations about the challenges they’re facing day-to-day and why they’ve come together to attempt to fund themselves and their peers through AC|A.

Laura Hennighausen speaks on behalf AC|A to highlight where the collaborative started and why.

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