2. A Local Arts Agency (LAA) promotes, supports, and develops the Arts at the local level to strengthen the daily fabric of community living.
What do Partnerships like MoCo do? (See screen) MoCo’s goal is to leverage the economic might inherent in the arts for the good of the entire community, the Central Jersey Shore, Monmouth County. MoCo does not make art. Its artistic vision is to build and help support a mighty cultural economic engine here in Monmouth County..for your towns...to create jobs, broaden the tax base, strengthen the infrastructure, encourage businesses of all kinds...art, sure, but also tourism, entertainment, retail, restaurants, hotels, motels and on and on.
Source
2012

3. To Make the Jersey Shore A Cultural Destination of Choice
Our Mission...is to make the Central Jersey Shore a Cultural Destination of Choice.
MoCo is not a committee, board, council, not any kind of rule making body
MoCo is a Partnership...what the National Endowment for the Arts and others call a Local Arts Agency.
Our Mission:
To Make the Jersey Shore
A Cultural Destination of Choice

4. Monmouth County Arts Scene 2014
2,080 Arts-Related Businesses in
Monmouth County
Employing 5,803 People
Arts-Related Businesses
Colored dots
colors represent different arts related businesses
Together they have huge impact (CLICK) on economy
more the 22 hundred arts related businesses...employing more then 61 hundred people
Museums/Collections
Performing Arts
Visual/Photography
Film, Radio, TV
Design/Publishing
Art Schools/Services

5. Weaving Networks Leverage the Economic Power of the Arts
For the Good the Entire Community
Arts
What do Partnerships like MoCo do? (See screen) MoCo’s goal is to leverage the economic might inherent in the arts for the good of the entire community, the Central Jersey Shore, Monmouth County. MoCo does not make art. Its artistic vision is to build and help support a mighty cultural economic engine here in Monmouth County..for your towns...to create jobs, broaden the tax base, strengthen the infrastructure, encourage businesses of all kinds...art, sure, but also tourism, entertainment, retail, restaurants, hotels, motels and on and on.
Cultural
Help Create Jobs
Tourism
Help Improve Neighborhoods
Business
Help Strengthen Quality of Life
Local Government
Transportation
Local Government

6. Advancing Dialogue Naysayers at the Beginning
That’s what called Partnership. To succeed we need many, many partners...and not just in the Arts. We need you, we need Mayors, town councils, tourism officials, business groups, civic organizations. It is how this concept, this vision has been so successful elsewhere. 90%. We, happily, already far ahead of that number. (NEXT)
“This will never work. People are too territorial.”

7. That’s what called Partnership. To succeed we need many, many partners
That’s what called Partnership. To succeed we need many, many partners...and not just in the Arts. We need you, we need Mayors, town councils, tourism officials, business groups, civic organizations. It is how this concept, this vision has been so successful elsewhere. 90%. We, happily, already far ahead of that number. (NEXT)
96 % of Local Arts Agencies maintain at least one collaboration or partnership with public or community agencies
Source
2012

8. The MoCo Partners...So Far
Monmouth Cares
Monmouth Arts
Monmouth County Library System
Monmouth County Office of Economic Development
Monmouth County Office Division of Planning
Monmouth County Office of Tourism
Monmouth Museum
Monmouth University
Musical Heritage Foundation
Mrittika Center for Language and Heritage
Newark Boys Chorus School
Pacific Encore Performances
New Jersey Repertory Company
New Jersey Transit
Premier Theater Company
Red Bank Visitors Center
ReVision Theater
Roots UP Systems
Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts
The Showroom
The Two River Theater Company
Town of Interlaken
Visions Photographic Workshops
Windows on the Water
Abramowitz Fine Arts
Algonquin Arts Theater
Asbury Park Department of Commerce
Atlantic Highlands Arts Council
Axelrod Performing Arts Center
Brookdale Community College
Beauregard Fine Art
Belmar Arts Council
Belmar Tourism
Count Basie Theater
Creative New Jersey
Dance Plus
Exhibit No. 9
Garden State Film Festival
Garden State Players
Horizons Student Enrichment Program
Jazz Arts Project
Jersey Shore Convention and Visitors Bureau
Jersey Shore Jazz and Blues Foundation
Main Avenue Galleria
McKay Imaging
Middletown Arts Center
Middletown Community Development
Molly Pitcher & Oyster Point Hotels
We already have dozens of partners. Organizations and businesses that have climbed onboard and are helping us to plan and develop MoCo into an effective working Partnership. We have only just begun. This is a snapshot of a powerful economic system up here.

9. MoCo Corridor Annual Non-Profit Expenses $24,000,000
800 Full Time Jobs
$979,000 Local Revenue
$1.3 Million State
Revenue
2012

10. MoCo “…New Jersey’s model and a beacon for creative placemaking
52nd Session of the UN Commission
for Social Development 2014
MoCo
“…New Jersey’s model and a beacon for creative placemaking
planning, intervention and sustainable development.”
“…a great example of a regional collaborative.”

11. Creating Ideas Taking Hold
What’s Different Now?

12. Center for Creative Placemaking
A Study of MoCo
Center for Creative Placemaking
Bloomfield College

13. A Study of MoCo Bloomfield College Center for Creative Placemaking
There is a greater awareness of the Arts community
and a better understanding of how the Arts
equate to economic development. .
There is more unity amongst Art providers.
Before, it was more splintered.

14. Continue to provide technical and professional support
as a member of the MoCo Partnership and
to expand the concept of the Moco Arts Corridor
to areas of western Monmouth County

15. Challenges Ahead Spreading the Word Continue Building Community
Support and Understanding
for the Value of the Arts