we invest
in artist-led
systems change
across the U.S.
CultureBanq partners with (+) artists,
(+) investors, and (+) allies who are creating
self-determined, healthy, and vibrant futures.
CultureBanq is a home.
CultureBanq is a home for artists leading places, investments, and systems change.
Artists are actively remembering our past, tending our present, and reimagining futures.
CultureBanq starts in places where artist-led initiatives - projects, spaces, and ecosystems - are already started and stewarded.
Artist-Led Places
Artists are not only capital recipients, but co-investors and community investment guides.
CultureBanq co-designs capital models - giving circles, DAF funds, bonds, and more - that serve community regeneration.
Artist-Led Investments
Artists are not just operating in silos, but designing new systems that serve locally to nationally.
CultureBanq supports new systems activation - infrastructure, tools, storytelling, and more - that serve within and across places.
Artist-Led Systems
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why it matters
The problem is not a shortage of capital, but a shortage of imagination.
Artists create thriving places.
94% of U.S. adults agree that arts participation builds social cohesion, and 96.2% agree it improves wellbeing in their community.
Capital is not built
for artists.
Artists face barriers that traditional public and private capital systems often fail to account for - trust, timing, risk, power, and value measurement.
Source:
ImpactPHL, Moving Minds & Money to Transform Arts & Culture Investment, 2023
Trillions of dollars are on the table.
Nearly $2.4 trillion flows each year toward community development, health, climate, and anti-poverty efforts in pursuit of systems change.
what we’re building
We are deepening work in Philadelphia, Dallas, Upstate New York, New York City, and beyond.
PLACES
We celebrate and support artist-led spaces and initiatives like The Emergency Was Curiosity, Black Anime PDX, Sweet Juice Fest, CultureTherapy, PLaCES, Ash Studios, and Urban Health Plan.
SPACES + INITIATIVES
We are designing and testing vehicles including The Current, giving circles, donor advised fund strategies, and community bonds.
CAPITAL EXPERIMENTS
We are stewarding a national design team connected to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Making Missing Markets initiative to co-design new investment models for artists creating generations of healthy communities.
SYSTEMS DESIGN
listen to what we’re up to
We’re sharing an early release from Artist-Led, produced by Jackanoid Paralope, whose work centers nuance, paradox, and human connection. This episode looks at artists as guides on the ground, reimagining how resources flow through their communities - and what becomes possible when their leadership is followed.