Our Ecosystem

Our proven collective impact model ensures arts education reaches every school across Miami-Dade County.

We align nonprofit leaders, schools, district officials, teaching artists, funders, and youth into coordinated coalitions that drive impact across entire communities.

Cross-Sector Coalitions & Capacity Building

We translate alignment into action through structured cohorts that meet consistently, share responsibility, and build leadership across the ecosystem.

Through shared planning, professional development, and coordinated decision-making, we strengthen organizations and ensure the system performs at scale.

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COHORTS

200+ Leaders Working Together

Leadership Cohort

CEOs and community leaders who set strategy, align resources, and guide long term growth across all regional alliances.

Principal Cohorts

We convene all participating principals twice annually alongside program providers to align strategy, strengthen access, and drive coordination across schools. These sessions focus on data, recruitment, retention, and long term sustainability at each site.

Program Directors Cohort

Program directors convene to strengthen leadership capacity, exchange best practices, and coordinate teachers and staffing to ensure consistency and quality across alliances.

Teaching Artists Cohort

We train and convene teaching artists to build community, strengthen instructional practice, and ensure consistent, high quality classroom experiences for students.

Marketing Directors Cohort

Marketing leaders coordinate strategy and storytelling to elevate a unified narrative for arts education, amplifying student voices and community impact across Miami-Dade.

Youth Advisory Committee

A council of student leaders who shape strategy, elevate youth voice, and help guide how arts education responds to the needs of their communities.

Data & Impact Cohort

Ensures that every story strategy and decision is backed by measurable outcomes.

M-DCPS Working Groups

We work directly with the Superintendent and Cabinet through six formal working groups to align policy, increase efficiency, and embed arts education into the core of Miami-Dade schools.

Grantee Tiers

Arts Access Miami invests in a tiered network of arts organizations to deliver, strengthen, and scale arts education across Miami-Dade County. Each grantee tier plays a distinct role within the ecosystem, from community wide delivery systems to capacity building and early stage growth.

Community Based Systems of Delivery

Alliance Grantees represent Arts Access Miami’s deepest level of investment, coordinating multiple arts organizations across entire communities to build sustainable arts education infrastructure and ensure every student has access to high quality arts education from K–12 across Miami-Dade county public schools. Together, these alliances align collective leadership, community centered programming, impact driven accountability, and systems level solutions to create lasting, community wide change.

Alliance Grantees

Impact Since 2020

Schools & Community Sites

19,756

Students

56,607

Classroom Hours

Organizations

544

Performances

25,959

Audience Reach

North Dade Alliance

The North Dade Alliance is a citywide commitment to ensure that every young person has access to the transformative power of music and arts education. 8 partner organizations are working collaboratively across 32 schools and community sites, guaranteeing equitable access to high-quality arts programming for all youth in Miami Gardens.

Through this coordinated effort, students experience measurable gains in academic performance, school attendance, and positive youth development.

Impact Since 2024

Schools & Community Sites

17,378

Students

53,342

Classroom Hours

Organizations

194

Performances

24,707

Audience Reach

South Dade Alliance

Launched in the 2024–2025 school year, the South Dade Alliance builds on the success of the North Dade model to ensure every young person in the region has access to transformative music and arts education. 9 organizations work in partnership across 23 schools and community sites, creating a united ecosystem of opportunity. Led by Arts Access Miami, the Alliance aligns programs, strengthens collaboration, and amplifies impact by telling the powerful story of South Dade’s youth, culture, and creativity.

The Catalyst Grant Program is a two year funding opportunity supporting grassroots and emerging arts organizations delivering school based arts education across Miami-Dade County Public Schools

Catalyst grants fund direct student programming, primarily through after school and school connected activities, and when possible during the school day, across disciplines including visual arts, dance, theatre, ballet, and multidisciplinary practices.

More than funding, the program serves as a strategic entry point into the Arts Access Miami ecosystem. Grantees receive both implementation support and structured cohort engagement, participating in shared planning, data alignment, and partnership development to strengthen program quality and long term organizational sustainability.