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Cultural planning and community development services in Maine and New England

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Cultural planning is an essential part of developing regeneration strategies for communities. This is a global movement that started as a response to shifting economics and demographic changes. Many communities suffer from economic decline and shrinking populations. Incorporating cultural planning into a community’s toolkit of strategies helps revitalize downtowns and regions.

Reinholt Consulting helps to fortify cultural organizations by acting as a guide through a comprehensive planning process that leads to the discovery of top priorities. Essential to this is conducting an assessment of the reach, value, and relevance of cultural strengths. Reaching out to all facets of the public to gain their input gives a scope of how changing populations value, perceive, and identify existing cultural opportunities.  This allows an organization or community to fine tune their vision based on what the community needs and desires.

Reinholt Consulting serves cultural organizations and community stakeholders by guiding, listening, preparing, gathering data, organizing and assessing public outlooks, writing an assessment report, integrating feedback, and writing a cultural plan supported with the collected data.

Cultural Planning

Cultural planning provides a catalyst for the creativity that lies within every community. For years it’s been argued that the value of arts and cultural assets extends beyond the intrinsic and aesthetic. Until recently, the ability to define the value brought to communities through the presence of arts and cultural assets was limited by the lack of sufficient data available to support what many knew to be true; that not only do arts and cultural assets add to our overall enjoyment and quality of life, these assets also add significantly to the economy and serve as a powerful tool for community and economic development.

Over time, those keen on cultivating the benefits brought to communities by the presence of arts and culture worked to define what many refer to as the ‘creative economy’. Communities now have access to a growing body of data to support local, regional, and statewide planning initiatives aimed at cultivating the creative economy.

Much like land use planning serves as tool for municipalities and regional planning entities to help communities guide future development based on a community’s priorities and values, cultural planning serves as a tool for communities to develop and implement strategies to support a growing creative economy.

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