CauseConnect® - Doing Business By Doing Good

Art + Business + Community

Melissa Richardson Banks specializes in creating meaningful partnerships between companies and causes. Since 2001, through CauseConnect, she has provided consulting services nationwide to clients on projects in the arts, education, and the environment. As Downtown Muse, she is also a photographer who captures and shares images of everyday life. She now hosts and produces a podcast called MUSED: LA 2 HOU.

Doing Business by Doing Good.

OUR SERVICES

CauseConnect® offers services that result in deliverables such as grants (writing, editing, reviewing); plans (fundraising, strategic, grantmaking, marketing), workshops (training, professional development), awareness (social media, public relations, event marketing), and productions (public programs, special events, museum exhibitions, festivals, concerts).

OUR CLIENTS

CauseConnect® clients range from museums and galleries to school and public libraries, government agencies to nonprofits, art organizations to community groups, major corporations to small businesses, art collectors to artists, media to art fairs. We have experience working on projects for these clients in the visual and performing arts, education, environment, and community.

OUR WORK

CauseConnect® has produced and marketed over 100 museum exhibitions plus countless collector events, art talks, youth art programs, community festivals, artisan markets, product launches, concerts, art fairs, art auctions, galas, award dinners, outdoor art tours, artist studio visits, art books, marketing campaigns, grant programs for teachers and schools, and other projects.

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National Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture Breaks Ground for Planned Spring 2022 Opening
“My mantra has always been that, if you are doing something good, good things will happen to you,” said Richard “Cheech” Marin during the groundbreaking for the Cheech Marin Center f
Melissa Richardson Banks
09 April, 2021
Papel Chicano Dos Closes its National Tour at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center of Colorado College
While the work of CauseConnect is intentionally behind the scenes (because the clients and the projects are first and foremost), we are proud of the public work handled by our firm over the past 20 ye
Melissa Richardson Banks
08 April, 2021
April is National Volunteer Month
VOLUNTEER! Thirty years ago, April became National Volunteer Month as part of President George H.W. Bush’s 1000 Points of Light campaign in 1991. There are many ways to participate. Volunteering is a
Melissa Richardson Banks
02 April, 2021