Alice Zimet
President
Arts + Business Partners LLC
Alice is a pioneer in the field of corporate sponsorship. During 20 years as vice president of worldwide cultural affairs at The Chase Manhattan Bank, she worked with performing and visual arts groups in 14 countries and 20 U.S. cities—doing good, raising visibility, and helping to generate over $2 billion for the bank. Alice founded Arts + Business Partners in 1999 to consult on issues of corporate marketing and sponsorship for nonprofits and corporations. Nonprofit clients include The Actors’ Fund of America, National Dance Institute, Opera Boston, Harvard University Art Museums, Whitney Museum of American Art, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, as well as the Martha Graham, Paul Taylor, and Alvin Ailey dance companies. Sponsor clients include Sephora USA, Fleet Bank, U.S. Trust, Barnes & Noble, Pernod Ricard USA, Mizuho Bank, and American Express Tax & Business Services. She is a member of the Collections Committee of the Harvard University Art Museums and the American Association of Museum’s Task Force on Corporate Giving. Alice is adjunct professor at New York University and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and for the U.S. Department of State. Zimet lectures and writes regularly. A recent article was included France’s banking magazine, Revue Banque, on how American corporations use the arts as a business tool, while another one, "Cultural Marketing: Banks Tap the Arts," appeared in the Journal of Financial Advertising and Marketing. Having read thousands of proposals and managed millions of “donor dollars,” Ms. Zimet provides a rare glimpse into the funder’s mind. She recently returned from Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Budapest where she lectured on behalf of the U.S. Department of State.