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What is LINC?

Launched as a ten-year initiative in 2003, Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC) represents a philanthropic experiment in using information, money, strategy, and partnerships to effect change in the support system for artists in the United States. LINC’s mission was to improve the ability of artists to create work, build social capital, and contribute to democratic values. Between 2003 and 2013, LINC invested in the work of more than 100 partner organizations and disbursed over $18 million to support innovative programs, groundbreaking research, catalyctic partnerships, knowledge-sharing, and other work in pursuit of that mission. 

  • Cornerstones

    The story of how LINC was founded, its primary programs, and its overall evolution. This section illuminates LINC’s values in practice over the course of its ten-year lifespan.

  • Research

    A complete index of LINC’s published research, highlighting critical findings that can contribute to innovative practices going forward. 

  • Case Studies

    Select examples from LINC’s grantee portfolio, which highlight shifts in thinking and practice to which LINC contributed.

  • ASArtist Space
  • HCHealth Care
  • CPConvenings / Proceedings
  • CCCreative Communities
  • SPSurvey / date-driven Practices
  • PSPlace-based Strategies
  • 2013ASHCCPCC

    Investing in Creativity: A Study of the Support Structure for U.S. Artists

    Urban Institute: Maria-Rosario Jackson, Ph.D., Flroence Kabwasa-Green, Daniel Swenson, Joaquin Herranz, Jr., Kadija Ferryman, Caron Atlas, Eric Wallner, Carole Rosenstein, Ph.D.

  • 2012AS

    Developing Artist-Driven Spaces in Marginalized Communities: Reflections and Implications for the Field

    Urban Institute: Maria Rosario Jackson

  • 2010HC

    Health Insurance for Artists: Before and After the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010

    Helicon Collaborative, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

  • 2010ASSP

    How Artist Space Matters: Impacts and Insights from Three Ca

    Metris Arts Consulting: Anne Gadwa, Ann Markusen, Nathaniel Walton

  • 2012ASPS

    Why is Gentrification a Problem?

    Center for Creative Community Development (C3D), Williams College: Stephen Sheppard

  • 2011ASPS

    Building Community: Making Space for Art

    Urban Institute: Maria Rosario Jackson

  • 2010HCSP

    Artists and the Economic Recession Survey: A Summary of Findings

    Helicon Collaborative: Alexis Frasz, Holly Sidford; Princeton Survey Research Associates International

  • 2012PS

    Natural Cultural Districts: A Three-City Study

    Social Impact of the Arts Project (SIAP), University of Pennsylvania: Mark Stern, Susan Seifert

  • 2011ASSP

    How Art Spaces Matter II: The Riverside, Tashiro Kaplan, and Insights from Five Artspace Case Studies and Four Cities

    Metris Arts Consulting: Anne Gadwa, Anna Muessig

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