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Arts & Culture Indicators in Community Building Project

The Arts and Culture Indicators in Community Building Project (ACIP) is an exploratory and experimental effort to develop arts and culture neighborhood indicators for use in local planning, policymaking, and community building. Launched in 1996 with the support of the Creativity and Culture division of the Rockefeller Foundation, it operates in conjunction with the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP). The project operates at the local level in collaboration with various kinds of organizations and individuals including community builders, arts administrators, artists, funders and applied researchers. The project seeks to create the concepts, tools, and language necessary to integrate arts and culture into quality of life measures. Moreover, it actively encourages the inclusion of arts and culture within indicator systems.

Web site last updated: March 9, 2007

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For additional information about ACIP, e-mail Maria-Rosario Jackson, ACIP Principal Investigator at mjackson@ui.urban.org