2023 CBCA Annual Report
Check out CBCA’s 2023 Annual Report! Read Christin Crampton Day’s Letter from the Executive Director below.
Christin Crampton Day, CBCA Executive Director
Given the fast pace of our daily lives, work and society, it’s nice to take a few moments to reflect. Thinking about CBCA’s accomplishments in 2023, there are many to celebrate. To summarize, I want to focus on highlighting three key themes:
Championing Change
CBCA successfully navigated several transitions in 2023 involving people and places, including personnel changes and a major office move. We love our new home at 1325 S. Colorado Blvd., so please come by and visit us sometime. We hired and onboarded two new talented team members, as well as several new board members over the course of the year bringing their diverse backgrounds and skills to the
organization. We also listened, learned and adapted CBCA programs, events and advocacy initiatives based on our members, participants and partners’ feedback to strive to meet current needs and gaps and better serve our wide variety of stakeholders.
Advancing Equity & Policy
We continued to lead and build capacity for our state’s arts advocacy efforts, mobilizing constituents, gathering equitable community input, and building and nurturing relationships with legislators, policy makers and influencers. We also coordinated a delegation to Washington, D.C. to advocate on behalf of federal arts policy. We continued to invest in advancing our organizational commitment to Equity, Inclusivity, Diversity & Accessibility (EIDA), including our open board recruitment and nominations process, leadership trainings and integrating and amplifying this important work through all our programs and events.
Expanding Impact
As a small nonprofit organization with a big statewide mission, we continued to advance our programming and role across the state, as well as expand our impact in the Denver metro region. We accomplished this through advocacy, events, programs, research and training. We traveled to many different parts of the state and facilitated a variety of workshops and trainings for artists and creatives, led regional cultural research and a statewide advocacy community input survey, and spoke on panels and
participated in conferences in collaboration with community partners. We also welcomed many new members, donors, funders and sponsors throughout the course of the year whose collective investment helped CBCA to grow our impact.
Thank you to everyone in our CBCA community and ecosystem who made all this possible.
Respectfully,
CHRISTIN CRAMPTON DAY
Executive Director
