Art Gallery Begins Fourth Sector Work: Croatian Naive Art Gallery Initiates Benefit Fundraisers

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., June 26 /PRNewswire/ — We have all begun to hear about this new emerging “fourth sector” in the business world, where companies not only support favorite causes, but actually incorporate as part of their mission statement a primary reason for existence as being a tool to raise funds for the benefit of others. Well, that is exactly what the recently opened Croatian Naive Art Gallery & Museum Collection in St. Petersburg, Florida is doing.
Their mission has always been to promote the art the founders love, but they have also discovered, according to Jim and Donna Nannen, the founders, “a way to fulfill our mission while at the same time raising money for, and the public awareness of, local organizations that need to find new methods of funding, in an age where money is tight, grants less available and communities throughout the US look for ways to tighten their belts.”

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This Sunday’s Tampa Tribune featured Artlink Japan in its Baylife section.

“Art is a link to the creative mind.

Just ask artists from around the Bay area who recenty met with colleagues from Japan in a multicultural exchange. They formed an alliance to inspire fellow artists who struggle with physical and mental disabilities and to help their imaginations take flight…”
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