CultureSource

Our MISSION is to advance and cultivate creative and cultural expression in Southeast Michigan.

Our VISION is of flourishing Southeast Michigan communities that visibly benefit from a diverse and thriving arts and culture sector, which itself receives indispensable support from CultureSource.

Our GUIDING PRINCIPLES are as follows:

1. We are at our best when we work with partners and as connectors and instigators.
2. A solid financial core is essential to our capacity to serve.
3. We must embrace contemporary culture at its core and edges.
4. Cultural organizations of all sizes can be valued as community anchors.
5. We speak clearly, respectfully, and inclusively.
6. We have a responsibility to elevate voices historically oppressed by privilege.
7. We believe creativity is fundamental.

CultureSource is a Detroit-based coalition of cultural organizations and creative people that supports the vitality of Southeast Michigan's arts and culture community. We use our expertise and connectivity to serve arts and culture nonprofits as well as artists, philanthropists, and policymakers all striving to have creative and cultural expression benefit the public across our seven-county region (a population area of about 4.8 million people).

While CultureSource's priority audience is Detroit and Southeast Michigan, we also provide national service rooted in our local practice—a framework inspired by our Minnesota-based peer Springboard for the Arts. Our positive benefit to our local community was most recently affirmed in our year-over-year membership increasing 54% to 221 arts groups.