The Future Is Ensemble, And It Starts With You, Today.
Ensemble is not a concept. It’s a practice. A future-making method. A refusal to disappear.
Today, we launch a multi-year giving campaign under that banner that begins with a 4-week push to raise $36,000 by June 30, the end of our fiscal calendar.
Your support shows the world that ensemble matters.
Not just to funders. Not just to institutions.
But to us. The artists, organizers, and culture makers who live this work every day.
This is not just a fundraiser. It’s a collective call to build the systems that will sustain NET, and the ensemble field, for the long haul.
Here’s what we’re building together:
A shared cooperative employment agreement to help freelancers and organizations access affordable healthcare
Strategic advocacy across local, regional, and federal levels—protecting our sector and fighting for policy that supports justice-based arts practice
Regional gatherings that nourish relationships and field cohesion
Cross-industry partnerships rooted in solidarity economy principles and mutual aid
The Future Is Ensemble: A Rallying Cry.
We’ve all been told “that’s not possible” too many times.
We’ve been under-resourced, overworked, and invisible to systems that were never built for us.
And still, we created.
We survived.
We convened.
We refused to fold.
We built a path where there wasn’t one.
And now, we are building the infrastructure that can hold that path. Because every healthy nonprofit needs a public base of support. And every movement needs its people to be visible.
For 29 years, NET has survived without a real individual giving pipeline. Now we’re creating one so this work can thrive far beyond any one grant, leader, or moment.
Camp Ensemble gave us a glimpse of that future.
We witnessed ensemble in motion:
Lightning talks on revolutionary love, power, and catharsis.
Play that made room for joy and provocation.
Honest accountability. Shared meals. Big vision. Real belonging.
We didn’t just gather, we time-traveled.
And now it’s time to root that vision in structure.
