Please think of CBCA and Colorado’s entire arts and culture community when you schedule or make a gift on Colorado Gives Day. Your donation will help us reach our goal of $10,000 and support CBCA’s advocacy work to rebuild and reimagine Colorado’s creative economy after a decade of growth lost due to the pandemic.

The abrupt and devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nonprofit cultural sector is clear, reversing a decade of growth in the Denver metro area. Read the CBCA’s latest Economic Activity Study of Metro Denver Culture presented by U.S. Bank, released on November 4, 2021, which illustrates the financial and social contributions by arts, cultural and scientific nonprofit organizations in the seven-county metro area before and during the pandemic.

2020 was a memorable year like no other in many ways for CBCA! Not only did we adapt to navigate through a global pandemic, but also stepped up in new, bold, and innovative ways to support a Colorado arts, culture and creative sector that was disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.

CBCA’s new resource library includes past webinars, articles and other resources to advance Colorado’s creative economy. There is a wide variety of educational materials here, such as recorded webinars on copyright law, panels with musicians and creative entrepreneurs, trainings on nonprofit board governance, conversations about arts & business partnerships, and resources to improve your arts advocacy.

The pandemic and economic recession continue to have a disproportionate and devastating effect on the local creative sector. Until our local artists & organizations can get back on their feet, they need your support to endure. There are many ways you can Give, Engage and Shop to ensure we have arts through it all. The values we support today will determine what we have when this is over.