Public art, cultural celebrations and festivals, youth involvement with the arts, traditional arts apprenticeships, and other community-based arts and culture programs can help foster a sense of belonging, tolerance, cross-cultural understanding, and civic engagement in a community, a report from the Tucson Pima Arts Council finds. The report, People, Land, Arts, Culture, and Engagement: Taking Stock of the PLACE Initiative (52 pages, PDF), evaluated the impact of a community-based arts program funded by the Kresge, Nathan Cummings, and Open Society foundations and found that the initiative contributed to a sense of individual and collective empowerment, responsibility for and engagement with the physical environment, and cultural affirmation within the local community. Among other things, the report includes first-hand accounts and lessons learned from artists and arts groups that received support through the initiative and were better able, as a result, to pursue work concerned with social and community issues.