CultureCount Database

 

CultureCount: New England's Cultural Database

www.culturecount.org

CultureCount is NEFA’s free creative economy database - a centralized source of descriptive, financial, demographic, and geographic information about cultural nonprofits, businesses, and professionals in New England.

CultureCount provides a comprehensive representation of the creative economy of New England that supports the advocacy, fundraising, cultural analysis, and policy development efforts of artists, cultural organizations, researchers, and policy makers. CultureCount users can log on to discover cultural organizations, explore their communities, and analyze economic impact.

 

CultureCount Tutorial:

How to create a user account and artist entry 

 

Data

More than 29,000 active records are included in the CultureCount directory, together comprising a demonstrative cross-section of the creative economy as defined in our report, The Creative Economy: A New Definition, 2007. Listings come from a variety of data sources, are matched by tax ID number, and cross-coded according to standard federal classification systems of the additional financial, grants, or demographic data.

Make sure you count! Sign up today and ensure that your organization, creative business or artistic pursuit is counted in NEFA’s ongoing creative economy research.

 

Background

NEFA's past research into the economic impact of cultural organizations, and role as research partner on New England's Creative Economy Council led to the conceptualization and creation of the New England Cultural Database (NECD). Now called CultureCount, this online database is the only comprehensive and consistent data collection resource for New England's creative economy. Senior NEFA Research Consultant Douglas DeNatale, president of Community Logic, Inc. developed and built CultureCount. CultureCount complements the research activities at NEFA by providing a centralized location for the collection of local creative economy data for New England. This local data supplements the federal data analyzed by NEFA in research reports on the creative sector and fits within the creative economy definitional structure outlined in the 2007 report, The Creative Economy: A New Definition.

 

CultureCount Impact Calculator (Piloted in Massachusetts)

The Impact Calculator is the interactive cultural economic impact analysis tool built right into CultureCount. It demonstrates the economic impact of the nonprofit cultural sector and then estimates how changes in the sector affect a community or region’s employment, income, and property values. Using property tax information combined with IRS and other data from a sample group of communities, creative industry leaders, community members, and policy makers can use this analysis tool to help advocate for investments in community cultural assets. If you would like to attend a CultureCount Impact Calculator training workshop, please email culturecount@nefa.org.

 

Funding

Funding for the operation of CultureCount is provided by:
National Endowment for the Arts
Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism
Maine Arts Commission
Massachusetts Cultural Council
New Hampshire State Council on the Arts
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
Vermont Arts Council

Funding for the creation of CultureCount was provided by:
The Boston Foundation
Fidelity Foundation
The Davis Family Foundation
The Cabot Family Charitable Trust

Partners:
Community Logic, Inc.
MASS MoCA/Williams College Center for Creative Community Development (C3D)

 

Data Providers

New England Foundation for the Arts
Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism
Maine Arts Commission
Massachusetts Cultural Council
New Hampshire State Council on the Arts
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
Vermont Arts Council
National Center for Charitable Statistics
National Endowment for the Arts
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
Maine Humanities Council
Maine State Archives

For more information about CultureCount, email culturecount@nefa.org.