About Springboard for the Arts
Springboard for the Arts has an innovative history of supporting artists making a living and a life and artist-led community development work for over 30 years. The Foundation helps fund Springboard’s general operations throughout Minnesota. Programming includes Artist Career Consultations, Growth Fund business micro-loans, fiscal sponsorship, and a Guaranteed Income pilot, which invests in artists in St. Paul’s Rondo and Frogtown neighborhoods and rural Otter Tail County. Springboard prioritizes programs that focus on communities of color and rural communities. It also shares its expertise on a national level through the Creative Change Coalition, leading 150 organizations in fostering resource-sharing, field-building, and systems change. Springboard is led by Executive Director Laura Zabel from its community gathering space, SpringBOX, on St. Paul’s University Avenue and a second office in Fergus Falls.
