ABC accepting only two more applications for community coaching in Fall 2012

By Leonardo Vazquez

Due to increased demand for Arts Build Communities' services, we will be accepting only two more communities as clients for community coaching from September 2012 to March 2013.  New clients will be accepted on a first-come basis.  Any community not selected for community coaching in the Fall will be considered for the next session, beginning March 2013.

In Atlantic Highlands, community coaching helped build an alliance among the arts and business communities

Community coaching builds the capacity of community leaders to engage in sustainable, cost-effective creative placemaking.  Through a six-month period, an ABC coach challenges and supports a diverse community team as it develops a set of creative placemaking strategies.  Coaches help clients go beyond just doing projects.  Clients learn how they can better integrate arts-based activities with cultural, community and economic development.  This helps projects have broader and deeper impacts on the quality of life and opportunities for prosperity in their communities.

ABC has worked with community teams from Atlantic Highlands, coastal Monmouth County, New Brunswick and Perth Amboy.  Community coaching has helped build new alliances and generated new ideas in these communities.

In New Brunswick, community coaching is helping to build a community of arts and creative professionals

There is a flat fee of $2,500 per community for coaching that begins in September.  (The fee will go up in 2013.) Eligible communities can be neighborhoods, municipalities, counties or regional communities (two or more municipalities or counties.) Eligible communities must be within 2 hours (by car) from Newark, NJ. Learn more.

Need advice on how to get started?  Contact ABC Director Leonardo Vazquez by email or at 848-932-2747