Promising Start-Ups: Local Access to Art and Culture
“I believe that the arts in Minnesota are a very important part of our quality of life. …The arts help us to realize who we are, to celebrate our individuality. They are in the best way, an affirmation of ourselves.” -Governor Rudy Perpich
“I believe that the arts in Minnesota are a very important part of our quality of life. …The arts help us to realize who we are, to celebrate our individuality. They are in the best way, an affirmation of ourselves.” -Governor Rudy Perpich
Start-ups can hold the potential to offer innovative or new solutions to existing problems in a field. Therefore, we asked our experts to recommend start-up nonprofits working in their cause. We were interested in organizations that have already had an impact or that have high potential to have an impact in the future. Often, these organizations are just a few years old. How did we get these recommendations?
| Year Founded | Nonprofit Name | Mission | |
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| 1 | 2011 | Minnesota Music Coalition |
The Minnesota Music Coalition (MMC) connects and supports Minnesota's creative community of independent musicians.
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| 2 | 2009 | Northern Lights.mn |
Northern Lights is a roving, collaborative, interactive media-oriented, art agency from the Twin Cities for the world. It presents innovative art in the public sphere, both physical and virtual, focusing on artists creatively using technology, both old and new, to engender new relations between audience and artwork and more broadly between citizenry and their built environment. Northern Lights supports global and local artists working particularly at the intersection of disciplines to freely create new work that excites the senses, explores ideas that matter, and re-imagines ways of energetic engagement among artists, institutions, sites, and audiences.
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| 3 | 2012 | Ensemble 61 |
Ensemble 61's mission is to present the music it performs in communities along the highway.
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| 4 | 2011 | Minnesota Theater Alliance |
Founded in 2010, the Minnesota Theater Alliance is a 501c3 nonprofit service organization. Our mission is to leverage the collective strengths of Minnesota's theaters and theater professionals to promote, support, and advocate for the Minnesota theater industry locally, nationally, and internationally, believing that theater is an essential public good, critical to a healthy and truly democratic society and invaluable as a source of personal enrichment and growth.
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| 5 | 2009 | HUGE Improv Theater |
The HUGE Improv Theater is an artist-led company dedicated to supporting the Twin Cities improv community through performance and education.
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