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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.

  • researchHC

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

    Helicon Collaborative, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

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    Earliest Beginnings

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    Montana Arts Council

  • researchCCSPPS

    Creative Communities: Artist Data User Guide

    Ann Markusen w/ Greg Schrock

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    Past as Prologue

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    From Research to Practice: LINC

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    International Sonoran Desert Alliance

  • researchASPS

    Artist Space Development: Making the Case

    Urban Institute: Maria Rosario Jackson w/ Florence Kabwasa-Green

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    Chicago Artists Resource

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    First Peoples Fund