This month, nonprofit leaders from Macon, Augusta, Savannah, and Albany, together with foundation leaders from across the state, will celebrate the completion of Momentum for the Arts-a competitive and transformative multi-year process designed to help them build organizational strategy and leadership that leads them to higher impact in their communities.

Developed and presented by the Georgia Center for Nonprofits, Momentum for the Arts was made possible by the partnership of a dedicated group of funders, with statewide support from the Georgia Council for the Arts, regional support from the Knight Foundation and The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area, in conjunction with the Knox and Creel-Harison Foundations, The Trustees of the Academy of Richmond County, and other local partners.
 
"We are excited to partner with this impressive team of foundations who share our view that well-managed and strategic nonprofits who seek to leverage their work through collaborative efforts have the power to transform communities," said Karen Beavor, president and CEO of the Georgia Center for Nonprofits.
 
Karen Paty, executive director at Georgia Council for the Arts, called Momentum "a unique opportunity for the Council, and the collaboration of funders that support it, to step outside our usual grantmaking model and provide organizations with a program that builds internal capacity and contributes to the sustainability of the nonprofit sector."
 
While the two-year Momentum for the Arts experience is coming to a close, "the impact that stronger arts organizations have on their communities will continue to grow," said Beavor, "as they establish networks of high performance nonprofits who not only support each other, but act as catalysts for collaboration."
 
Momentum for the Arts
Funding Partners
The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area
The Creel-Harison Foundation
The Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation
Georgia Council for the Arts
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Knox Foundation
Mattie H. Marshall Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
Robert W. Woodruff Foundation
The Trustees of the Academy of Richmond County
The Zeist Foundation
 
Local Host Organizations
Macon Arts Alliance
The Augusta Collaborative Partnership
 
Participating Nonprofit Organizations
Augusta cohort:
Aiken Center for the Arts
Aiken Performing Arts
Arts and Heritage Center of North Augusta
Augusta Mini Theatre, Community Arts & Life Skills School
Barefoot Productions/Creative Impressions
Broad Street Artists Row
Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art
Greater Augusta Arts Council
Imperial Community Theatre
Jessye Norman School of the Arts
Joye in Aiken
Morris Museum of Art
Sacred Heart Cultural Center
Storyland Theatre
Symphony Orchestra Augusta
The Augusta Ballet
The Augusta Players
Waynesboro-Burke Concert Series
Westobou Festival
 
Macon cohort:
Eatonton-Putnam Arts Foundation
Friends of the Historic Douglass Theatre Complex
gloATL
Jazz Association of Macon
Macon Arts Alliance
Macon Film Festival
Milledgeville Baldwin County Allied Arts
Museum of Arts and Sciences
The 567 Center for Renewal
Theatre Macon
Tubman African American Museum
 
Savannah cohort:
Art Rise Savannah
Averitt Center for the Arts
Deep Center
Golden Isles Arts and Humanities Association
McIntosh Art Association
Savannah Philharmonic
Telfair Museum
 
Albany cohort:
Albany Museum of Art
Albany Symphony Association
Colquitt Miller Arts Council
Family Literacy Connection
Lowdnes-Valdosta Arts Commission
Rylander Theatre
South Georgia Ballet