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BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS
ANNOUNCES 2009 BCA TEN
Ten
Businesses Honored for Their Outstanding Support of the Arts
Thomas A. James and Movado to
Receive Leadership and Hall of Fame Awards
The BCA TEN awards will be presented by Americans for the Arts this evening
during a black-tie gala at the
THE BCA TEN – 2009 companies are:
- Adobe
Systems Incorporated,
- Applied
Materials,
- Arketype
Inc.,
- Brainforest
Inc.,
- Dollar
Bank,
- Duke
Energy,
- Hanesbrands
Inc.,
- Reliance
Standard Life Insurance Company,
- UMB
Financial Corporation,
- Williams
& Fudge Inc.,
“These businesses are being recognized
for their exceptional involvement in the arts throughout the workplace and in
their communities. They provide the arts with significant financial and in-kind
support, and they incorporate meaningful arts-related programs into lives of
millions of Americans,” said J. Barry Griswell, chairman, BCA Executive Board. “This
year’s extraordinary honorees are corporate leaders who are developing and
sustaining arts and arts education programming in towns of all sizes across the
country.”
“As dedicated members of the
arts and business community, we are grateful to honor corporations that
recognize the value of the arts and work to ensure that the arts thrive in
their communities,” said Robert L. Lynch, president and CEO of Americans for
the Arts. “We encourage all individuals, foundations, and corporations to
continue investing in the arts. This investment helps secure the arts
fundamental purpose: to delight, to inspire, to portray, and to provoke, and
along the way to help create a better
Business and arts leaders
from across the country are slated to attend tonight’s ceremony during which the
BCA Leadership Award and BCA Hall of Fame Award will also be presented.
The BCA Leadership Award will
be presented to Thomas A. James, chairman
and chief executive officer of Raymond James Financial in
This year’s inductee to the
BCA Hall of Fame is Movado Group, Inc., based in
The Media Sponsor of THE BCA
TEN is
For information about BCA and
its programs and events, visit www.AmericansForTheArts.org/bca.
Business Committee for the Arts, Inc. (BCA) was
founded in 1967 by David Rockefeller to bring business and the arts together. Since
then, business support to the arts has grown from $22 million in 1967 to $3.16 billion
in 2006. BCA’s mission is to ensure that the arts flourish in America by
encouraging, inspiring and stimulating business to support the arts in the
workplace, in education and in the community.
Americans for
the Arts is the leading nonprofit organization for advancing
the arts in
ABOUT THE BCA TEN, Leadership
Award, and HalL OF FAME HONOREES
Adobe Systems Incorporated,
Adobe has a long history of
championing the arts and creativity, and a strong track record of supporting
the community, which includes not only funding but also providing resources,
programs, and technology that inspire creativity and the arts in communities in
which Adobe operates. In 2008, Adobe granted approximately $3.3 million to the
arts, approximately 48 percent of its grants budget. Additionally, Adobe has provided
more than $5 million dollars in software to arts and cultural organizations. Adobe
also encourages employee art contests, displays art work in the corporate
offices and matches employee gifts to the arts.
Applied Materials,
Applied Materials has
supported its local arts community for more than 30 years. It focuses its arts
support on “anchor” organizations as well as programs that take art and culture
outside traditional settings to reach people of diverse backgrounds; expose
youth to artistic expression and creativity; support the infrastructure of
small- and mid-sized organizations; and encourage cross-sector collaboration
and visionary leadership. Applied Materials also encourages its employees to
support the arts throughout the country by matching charitable contributions to
arts and other nonprofit organizations.
Arketype Inc.,
Art and design is fundamental
to Arketype’s business and mission. The company has supported the arts with
approximately $1.7 million in sponsorships and in-kind time and talent since
1992. Arketype’s core philosophy is the 80/20 rule—80 percent of time is spent
on billable projects and 20 percent time is spent providing in-kind design,
video, and multimedia work to the community. Arketype also works with
Brainforest Inc.,
Brainforest is a
Dollar Bank,
Dollar Bank has included the
arts in its business since the 1870s when it commissioned an artist to create
the signature lions guarding the front door of the
Duke Energy,
Duke Energy provides support for the arts and culture through civic leadership, volunteerism, and
contributions. Through programs like Volunteers in Action and its annual Global
Service Event, thousands of employees and retirees across the company
participate in hundreds of volunteer projects. The company involves its
employees in its workplace giving campaigns through the Arts and Science
Council in
Hanesbrands Inc.,
Hanesbrands, Inc. believes
the arts nurture community spirit, are integral to educating children, build
social connections, and engage individuals in collaborative efforts throughout
the community. Over the past 10 years, Hanesbrands and its employees have given
more than $5.6 million to the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and
Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company,
For more than 100 years,
Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company (RSL) has strived to improve the
quality of life, not only of its policyholders, but also of its employees and
the communities in which they live. Today, RSL supports the arts through
generous funding of the Delphi Project Foundation, which provides comprehensive
art education programs that seek to positively impact underserved youth in
UMB Financial Corporation,
UMB’s
century-long support for the arts was ignited by the passion of its founding
family, the Kempers. Today, the company continues to dedicate time and monetary
resources towards the education, promotion and support of arts programs and
artists on both a local and national scale. This enthusiasm radiates throughout
the organization, as the company and associates have embraced this as a shared
cause. UMB recently created “pARTnership place at UMB” to lease space at
below-market rates to arts organizations in
Williams & Fudge Inc.,
Since its founding in 1986, Williams
& Fudge, Inc. has heavily invested in its community, both in capital and in
human resources. The arts serve to foster a sense of community by bringing
people of diverse backgrounds and interests together in shared endeavors and
Williams & Fudge leads by example. The company is a steadfast support of
local arts organizations. The company also supports arts education programs in
the local schools through its employee volunteerism and grants to arts
teachers.
Thomas A. James,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Raymond James Financial, BCA Leadership Award
Tom James is chairman and
chief executive officer of Raymond James Financial, Inc., a diversified holding
company that provides financial services to individuals, corporations, and
municipalities through subsidiary companies. Tom James is also president of the
board of trustees of The Salvador Dalί Museum in
Movado Group, Inc., BCA Hall of Fame
Movado’s patronage of the
arts ranges from commissioning world-renowned artists to create limited edition
timepieces to supporting major arts institutions. The company has proudly
sponsored some of this country’s most prestigious cultural institutions
including