Field Paper
Use this page to send the paper to funders, civic leaders, educators, health partners, arts organizations, and people responsible for youth opportunity.
Citation
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Use or adapt these short prompts when sending the paper to someone who can help make youth arts visible, funded, coordinated, and durable.
This paper makes the case that youth arts should be treated as civic and developmental infrastructure, not optional enrichment. It is especially useful for cross-sector conversations about education, health, workforce readiness, belonging, and public value.
The paper reframes youth arts as infrastructure that helps build capacities every sector says young people need: attention, belonging, collaboration, communication, creative judgment, identity, adaptability, and future readiness.
This can help translate what practitioners already know into language that funders, public systems, and cross-sector partners can recognize, measure, coordinate, and protect.
Who to send it to
Education, health, workforce, youth development, parks, libraries, city agencies, and civic infrastructure tables.
Foundation program officers, donor networks, civic funds, family offices, and pooled-funding collaboratives.
Teaching artists, providers, school partners, youth councils, community organizations, researchers, and storytelling partners.
If someone has a story, implementation role, funder interest, or speaking invitation, send them into the story flow so the signal lands in the CRM.