Based on a rigorous assessment of anchor strategies and 125 arts and culture organizations in 57 U.S. cities, The Overlooked Anchors: Advancing a New Standard of Practice for Arts and Culture Organizations to Create Equitable Opportunity in America’s Cities offers recommendations on how arts organizations, anchor collaboratives and funders can work together to increase social and economic opportunity in disinvested communities. Anchor strategies designed to drive significant growth in cities by leveraging the scale of universities, hospitals and other large institutions emerged over 20 years ago. 

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