COPA empowers community arts organizations.

COPA facilitates community arts organizations that promote programming for youth and adults so they can advance their missions, increase enrollments, and expand access. All arts – Visual, Performing, and Literary – are critical to the growth of the COMMUNITY, SOCIETY, and INDIVIDUALS.

mission

COPA supports community arts organizations – through a facility and via an endowment-backed foundation that delivers funding.
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facility

The arts facility in Fitchburg, WI will have  administrative office, theater performance, programming, and practice spaces designed for various arts types.

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foundation

Friends of COPA Foundation will manage an endowment to provide financial support to arts organizations.
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mission

COPA supports community arts organizations – through a facility and via an endowment-backed foundation that delivers funding.
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facility
The arts facility in Fitchburg, WI will have  administrative office, theater performance, programing, and practice spaces designed for various arts types.

 

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foundation
Friends of COPA Foundation will manage an endowment to provide financial support to arts organizations.

 

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“COPA will give children in South Madison and Dane County access to an important center for learning, engaging in and developing valuable knowledge and skills in the performing arts. “

– Kaleem Caire

COPA Summary Video

Featuring comments from Michael Leckrone

Michael Leckrone

COPA Lead Community Ambassador

“Music has been a very important aspect of my life for as long as I can remember, and I feel I owe an enormous debt to the teachers, performers, colleagues and students who provided the inspiration, the challenges, and the motivation that has led to my ongoing love and appreciation of the Arts.”

 

“I am confident that the positive impact music has on an individual cannot be overstated. There is a satisfaction, an excitement, and a joy in the music making process that is difficult to match by any other activity.

I am thrilled to serve as the Lead Ambassador for COPA seeking the financial support needed to build the facility portion of COPA. I believe strongly there must always be the opportunities and facilities for young men and women to pursue a passion for the arts so they may continue to learn, to grow, and to perform.”

– Mike Leckrone

ambassadors

André De Shields 

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Butch Vig

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David Lee Jones

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COPA exists to help community arts participate and observe, because the arts enrich lives. COPA empowers organizations through its facility and foundation, so they can advance their missions, increase enrollments, and expand access.