Urban Network: Museums Embracing Communities — The Urban Network is a consortium of 10 major metropolitan museums in five U.S. cities. Members work together to share strategies for increasing civic engagement and enhancing access to museum learning. ASA developed the Urban Network with The Field Museum in 2002, and edited a book about civic engagement strategies in 2003. Continue reading →

Strategic Partnerships Sometimes it takes a team to make change. ASA helps clients to identify and approach allies and facilitate a process to create a shared agenda and action plan. Whether the outcome includes a PR campaign, forming and staffing … Continue reading →

Public Engagement When a client’s objective is to build constituencies or sustainable support and interest in key issues, they engage ASA to work with them to develop a public engagement plan. ASA helps client to generate long term relationships with … Continue reading →

Many Voices, Many Dreams — ASA produced this thirty-minute video for North Central Regional Educational Laboratory in order to show how multicultural education benefits children more than “an assembly line approach to education, treating children as if one size fits all.” Continue reading →

Mis Padres, Mis Maestros — This public education campaign, which translates as “My Parents, My Teachers,” was designed by ASA and is targeted toward Spanish-speaking parents of children 0-3. The video and print materials produced by ASA help parents understand parenting techniques that help their child’s brain to develop. The campaign is disseminated nationally through Head Start programs, doctor’s offices and hospitals. Continue reading →

America’s Libraries Change Lives — This outreach campaign produced by ASA includes a video narrated by Whoopie Goldberg and a curriculum guide. The American Library Association now distributes them for use in public and school libraries nationwide. ALA subsequently adopted ASA’s themes and title for its Millennium outreach initiative. Continue reading →

The Return of Navajo Boy — ASA screened this film in Washington, D.C. to help galvanize support for the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) legislation; it also triggered a federal investigation into uranium houses on the Navajo Nation. The film has been invited to numerous film festivals and college campuses and reviewed in newspapers nationwide. Currently, ASA is building a public education campaign to present the film’s themes to high schools, colleges, environmental organizations and child welfare professionals. Continue reading →

Media Production ASA produces 360° media content. We create short media clips that evoke a response; websites that are interactive; social media and live events that are immersed in context; and longer form documentaries that reveal depth. ASA’s non-profit production … Continue reading →

ASA developed the Arts Marketing Center at the Arts and Business Council of Chicago to help nonprofit arts organizations increase their audiences and earned income. The model and its four program components have been replicated in six cities nationwide. Continue reading →

ASA developed the business plan and pro forma for the Duncan YMCA Chernin Center for the Arts, the first YMCA in the nation dedicated completely to the arts, set within the traditional YMCA structure. This planning project included market research and constituency building with community organizations, local youth, YMCA board members and artists. Continue reading →