Finding Arts Funding; the Arts and Culture Funder Database

presented by Steve Paprocki of Access Philanthropy

Find additional funding sources for the arts during this information session about MRAC’s free web-based tool, the Arts and Culture Funder Database available here: http://funders.accessphilanthropy.com/clients/mrac/index.php

MRAC has partnered with Access Philanthropy to provide a database of arts and culture funders designed for small to mid-size arts organizations in the metro area. Come learn how the tool works and how to use it to your organization's best advantage.

Steve Paprocki, president, Access Philanthropy has spent his professional career involved in philanthropy - as foundation director, fundraiser, trainer, donor consultant, author, researcher, and lobbyist. As associate director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP), Steve wrote four books on corporate grantmaking and "midwifed" sixty women's funds, environmental funds, Black United Funds, health funds, and social action funds.

Before his work with NCRP, Steve was a lobbyist for the Catholic Church, a program officer for the Campaign for Human Development and the founding director of the Cooperating Fund Drive. Steve has served as chair of the board of directors of the Carmen Pampa Fund (supporting a community college in rural Bolivia) and been a board member of Minnesota Charities Review Council. He has served as a founding member of Headwaters Fund and a member of the funding panel of Minneapolis Foundation/McKnight Foundation Neighborhood Self-Help Initiatives Program.

Steve has a masters’ degree in public affairs from the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute, a bachelors’ degree from the University of St. Thomas and a labor studies certificate from Metro State University. Steve is an adjunct professor at Hamline University and Metro State University, teaching courses in fundraising and philanthropy.