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ASA worked closely with Columbia College Chicago’s Institutional Advancement office and various academic departments to design and build new programs that helped the College expand its footprint and engage strategic audiences. These include initial planning, program design and funding strategy for: Center for Community Arts Partnerships, Center for Asian Arts and Media, Center for Arts Policy, Urban Missions Program.

Additionally ASA helped revamp the strategic positioning and designed programs for: Chicago Jazz Ensemble and The Center for Black Music Research.

Chicago Cultural Alliance – In 2006, ASA facilitated a planning process and wrote the business plan to form the Chicago Cultural Alliance (CCA), an alliance of 26 ethnic museums and cultural centers and several large institutions. Through the Alliance the ethnic museums are able to build and sustain cross-cultural dialogue and leverage the voices of their communities to create social change.

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.

ASA designed the CAP Institute and manages the four-year program in-house. This Institute provides technical assistance to a consortium of seven arts colleges and universities nationally that are working in partnership with community organizations to provide educational arts programs to low-income youth. ASA documents and disseminates the work of CAPs and provides leadership in positioning CAPs within allied fields. Begun in 1999, CAP Institute is funded by the Wallace Funds.