Spirits and Logistics - How Grantmakers, Universities, and Arts Institutions Start Working with

the Transferable Competencies of collabora- tion, reflection (especially around self-care, • Public Education (for customers and power, and ethics), and career and project community) management, and the cognitive skills of critical Formal or informal; uses flyers, Appetite for and creative thinking, digital technology, and brochures, etc. [...] Incentivize and Actively Support: Mission and Strategy • BIPOC-led student collectives and • Make a commitment to cooperatives and cooperatives by funding and following Solidarity Economies in our mission and strategy. [...] Studies in numerous markets have zations that have roots predominantly in revealed that the general profile of the arts western eurocentric traditions and culture and culture workforce under-represents the are routinely experienced as elitist and racial and ethnic diversity of the commu- exclusionary, no matter the number of public nities where the organizations are located, affirmations they make. [...] As occurs in most knowledge and skills are necessary, they are sentative data exists for practicing artists, we times of financial crisis, a general demand for insufficient for skillful practice and for transfor- can look to leaders in the arts and culture sector alternatives is on the rise, and our role—as mation of the self that is integral to achieving to begin to give us insights into the non-. [...] Their work has been are all paid the same amount for a day rate the first people to be hired for the coopera- broadcast on HBO, PBS, and many other and for their internal cooperative work, tive’s client work and are eligible to join the networks, and screened at festivals worldwide, regardless of the task they do, and earn cooperative when membership opens as well.